The Cook County Board of Commissioners and the Justice Advisory Council joined together Wednesday on Chicago's South Side to ...

A new initiative at the Cook County Sheriff's Office hopes to help people with autism communicate better with police.

Cook County is at the center of a national debate over how local governments should respond to deep, persistent economic insecurity, but whether it has locked in guaranteed income as a permanent ...

Many American cities and counties have been experimenting with a novel concept: Giving financially vulnerable residents free money every month without expecting anything in return. The goal is to let ...

Applications are now open for Cook County’s Project Rainbow Initiative and Grow with Google’s scholarship program. The county and Google are offering no-cost scholarships for Google Career ...

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While most efforts to combat domestic violence focus on victims, survivors and breakdowns in systems meant to protect them, one Cook County program is shifting the work to the abusers and breaking the ...

The second-largest county in the United States has established a permanent guaranteed basic income program after the success of a previous pilot version. The Cook County Board of Commissioners ...