Churches and organizations in Chicago brought the spirit of the season to the Cook County Jail, with faith leaders and elected officials holding services and masses to remind inmates that they are ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A second detainee who tested positive for COVID-19 has died at Cook County Jail, officials said Thursday night. The death came on the same day a federal judge ruled against the mass ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The teenager accused of shooting and killing a 7-year-old boy will be transferred to a Cook County jail on his 18th birthday. Raysean Comer, was 16 when he was charged for ...
CHICAGO (WGN) — The Cook County Jail has its own garden for inmates to grow their own food. Now they are going one step further in their efforts to be sustainable. Sheriff Tom Dart’s Urban Farm ...
The family of a man who died in Cook County Jail over the weekend gathered outside the criminal courthouse Monday morning to call for clarity on the circumstances of his death. Shamire Jackson, 35, ...
A program led by Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke will use $1 million in new funding to provide academic and ...
The Cook County jail’s shuttered Division IV dormitory buildling, 2717 S. Sacramento, is slated for demolition in 2026. The county projects spending more than $1 billion on capital projects at the ...