COOK COUNTY, Ill. (WLS) -- The man charged with stealing a police squad car and a U.S. Postal Service truck, leading to a crash in the south suburbs last month, was found dead at the Cook County ...

The Cook County state’s attorney’s office announced Friday that it is expanding a pilot program allowing Chicago police officers to bypass prosecutors and directly file charges in some low ...

In Chicago, they would call the police ... model for a pretrial release monitoring program.” The public defender’s office has also been in support of the shift, which it says will bring Cook ...

COOK COUNTY, Ill. (WLS) -- A woman and her two children were injured in a car crash with a stolen U.S. Postal Service truck driven by a suspect who allegedly also stole a police squad car ...

CHICAGO — The Cook County State’s Attorney ... concerns about moving away from that model.” Charging decisions can at times cause conflict between police and prosecutors when prosecutors ...

After months of planning and discussion, the Cook County sheriff’s office ... arrest powers and would need to rely on local police or the county sheriff to take potential violators into custody.

Milwaukee County’s Brady list omits cops whose testimony was found not credible and who've cost taxpayers millions in ...

The Hall of Famer reached the highest heights of the basketball world. Now he’s figuring out the type of man and father he ...

Philip Cook, a Duke University researcher who ... This year, using Denver as a model, the Chicago Police Department has assigned 58 detectives citywide to exclusively handle shooting investigations.

Robert Straz is projected to win his seventh term as mayor of Palos Heights, commanding 70 percent of the vote.