Becca Ruidl, a librarian who died of COVID-19 in March at age 30, had a dream to provide a literacy space for children of the incarcerated at the jail.

Cook County jail detainees work with dogs Thursday as part of the jail's Tails of Redemption program. Courtesy of Cook County Sheriff “This program is a win for everyone,” Sheriff Tom Dart said.

The sprawling facility at 2700 S. California in Little Village became the first jail in the country to operate as a precinct with in-person voting in March 2020, according to the Cook County ...

We're going inside new state-of-the-art 'quiet' rooms for Cook County Sheriff's Office 911 dispatchers. "The public will never understand what these people go through every day," Dart said of the ...

Voting Rights Effort Targets Those in Cook County Jail, Others Across US The Cook County Jail is one of several lockups where voting rights advocates have worked with local election and jail ...

DePaul class inside Cook County jail brings together incarcerated and traditional students Inside-Out is a program taught in hundreds of jails and prisons across the country. DePaul’s class this ...

The Cook County Sheriff's Office warns of a scam where callers pose as law enforcement and demand $9,500 for missing a ...

At Cook County Jail, behind locked doors, barricades, fences and razor wire, in a barren room, about 40 men sat in tan county jail uniforms, unwrapping their innermost feelings, fears and fixations.

Cook County juvenile jail is locking kids, teens in their cells for most of the day, scathing review finds The retired child psychologist Chief Cook County Judge Timothy Evans, named to head the ...

CHICAGO (WBBM) — Last year was a record at the Cook County Jail for inmate deaths, and one of the most violent was a brutal murder inside the jail’s mental health hospital. Johnny Hendrix was ...

Eleven Cook County Sheriff’s Office employees have been reassigned pending the outcome of an investigation into the death of an inmate following what officials said was a medical emergency.

A detainee at Cook County jail is facing charges of aggravated battery of a guard even though video of the incident involving the handcuffed and wheelchair bound man appears to contradict the ...