Cook County is predicting a $211.4 million budget shortfall for 2026, a relatively modest gap that officials said was more of ...

Health care spending, which makes up some 60% of the overall county budget, will actually see a budget shortfall in 2025, after expectations of a surplus.

One of the men accused of shooting and killing a Cook County judge during a robbery will be tried in court on Monday. ABC7 ...

The I-Team had a rare look behind the scenes as the Cook County Organized Retail Crime Team met before executing arrest ...

The renewed focus on retail theft from Cook County’s top prosecutor has gone national. State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke ...

Efforts to overhaul Cook County’s property tax system largely fizzled out in the Illinois state legislature this session.

Cook County officials say maternal morbidity and mortality is a public health crisis. County Commissioner Donna Miller said ...

The three-year-old program has relieved the most debt for people on Chicago's South and West sides and in the south and west ...

A Cook County juvenile court judge says State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke has filed an ethics complaint against him over ...

A jury awarded $5.5 million to the family of Sandy Brooks, tying the largest verdict for nursing home neglect in county ...

County Board President Toni Preckwinkle told reporters the 2026 projection is more “problematic” than others recently, and cautioned that “this is our best guess.” ...