Category - Cook County

• Illinois erases $1.4 billion in medical debt for thousands of residents
• Defendant in fatal stabbing of CTA janitor was on electronic monitoring, prosecutor­s say
• Cook County pledges $8M to help in south suburban storm recovery
• Woman charged with first-degree murder in fatal stabbing of child
• COOK COUNTY HEAT-RELATED DEATHS BY YEAR
• ‘ALL HEAT-RELATED DEATHS ARE PREVENTABL­E,’ BUT IN CHICAGO AREA, 16 DIED FROM HEAT THIS SUMMER
• New video shows police offi cers shooting armed man who later died
• Johnson strikes $ 260.8M settlement to resolve police misconduct cases involving disgraced ex- detective
• People charged with drug crimes, shopliftin­g have a new path to avoid a conviction in Cook County
• Preckwinkl­e accepted campaign money from union amid talks with her Cook County agencies
• COOK COUNTY CRIME STOPPERS MAY HAVE TO SLOW OPERATIONS WITHOUT MORE FUNDING
• Pritzker signs follow-up disaster proclamati­on to aid recovery from August storms
• CHICAGO’S MAYORAL MELEE
• Mourning family calls for CTA security upgrades after man was fatally thrown from moving train
• MAN GETS 40 YEARS FOR 2022 MURDER OF BELOVED HYDE PARK BARTENDER
• THIS KISS
• Suburban Cook County reports first West Nile cases of the year
• More property owners we found who got erroneous tax breaks
• AFTER LOBBYIST WHO’S UNDER 65 GOT SENIOR TAX BREAKS, COOK CO. MADE HIM PAY UP. THEN, IT RENEWED THEM.
• ELITE CPD UNIT INVESTIGAT­ING BORDER PATROL SHOOTING OF CHICAGO WOMAN
• In wake of Supreme Court ruling, Illinois election officials stress mail ballots are ‘secure’
• WOMAN AVOIDS PRISON WITH PLEA DEAL IN FATAL STABBING OF BOYFRIEND AT BABY SHOWER
• Total of Cook County property taxes billed goes up for 32nd consecutiv­e year, report says
• Prosecutor­s expected to offer new deal to woman who says killing of boyfriend in 2022 was in self-defense
• County records 13th heat death of 2026, more than doubling previous decade high
• CLOUT, CONFLICTS OF INTEREST CLOUD THE WORK OF ILLINOIS’ SPECIAL PROSECUTIO­N UNIT
• 12th county heat-related death reported
• Ex-assessor’s office employee avoids prison after cooperatin­g with feds in bribery probe
• MARIMAR MARTINEZ, 8 OTHERS FILE POLICE REPORTS FOR FEDS’ ALLEGED MIDWAY BLITZ CRIMES IN PUSH FOR ACCOUNTABI­LITY
• FRACTURED FUNERAL OVERSIGHT
• ‘We can move forward in laying him to rest’
• FUNERAL HOME OF HORRORS
• Cook County sees 10th heat-related death of 2026, further passing decade-old high
• Prosecutor­s: ‘Stone-cold killer’ charged with murders of two girlfriend­s was caught on jailhouse wire