In a news conference marking 100 days in office, Gordon said the increase in requests for birth certificates and marriage ...

After several years of decline, the population is increasing, helped by immigration, while outbound migration slows.

A Chicago police officer's gun was found unattended in a bathroom at the Cook County George N. Leighton Criminal Courthouse Thursday, officials said.

The family this week made the difficult decision to take Mercedes Smith, 28​, off life support after she was struck by the ...

The Cook County state's attorney said her office is now making domestic violence cases a priority after a number of recent murders tied to domestic cases.

Skitch Electric Co. will relocate its new headquarters to Elgin from Streamwood if the company constructing the building can secure a Cook County tax break.

A 55-year-old Glenview man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of James Solger. Solger, 61, was found dead ...

The Chicago metropolitan area and Cook County both saw slight increases in population according to the most recent estimate by the U.S. Census Bureau, as international immigration outpaced domestic ...

On Tuesday night, the Bureau County Board voted against housing some inmates from the Cook County Department of Corrections.

Mercedes Smith, 28 and a pedestrian, was hit by a Cook County Sheriff’s Department squad car around 5:10 a.m. Tuesday in the ...

A pedestrian hit by a Cook County Sheriff's officer's squad car in Glenview, Illinois, has died. The crash happened on ...

Police said, shortly after 5 a.m., a pedestrian was hit by a Cook County Sheriff's squad car in the 9800 block of Milwaukee ...