— -- A sprawling brawl at a Chicago jail earlier this month was captured on video. Sixteen inmates are facing charges of mob action in the fight at Cook County Jail, which broke out around 9: ...

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart speaks at a news conference in Chicago, July 19, 2017. G-Jun Yam/AP, FILE. Dart then instituted a program that rewarded "serial masturbators" with pizza if they went ...

Cook County Sheriff’s Office warns of phone scam asking for payments 00:37. The Cook County Sheriff's Office is warning about a new phone scam aiming to con people out of thousands of dollars.

Seeking to identify long-term shifts in how the criminal justice system operates in Cook County, Loyola University researchers and local officials have launched a new data project.