Cook County News

The realization that household medicines tossed into the garbage or flushed down the drain pose serious risks to groundwater, has caused government agencies to rethink disposal methods.

A company seeking to build a proton therapy cancer treatment center is laying the groundwork to sue Northern Illinois University, claiming the school violated state antitrust laws and misled state officials in ...

Prosecutors are left with little evidence against a Schaumburg man accused of having explosive materials in a Cary home near Prairie Hill School in October 2006.

A Will County Judge on Tuesday ordered eight children remain in the custody of DCFS following the death of a 12-year-old special education student in his south suburban home Sunday morning.

A 15-year-old boy was killed and another male wounded when shots rang out behind the teen's West Pullman neighborhood home Monday night on the Far South Side.

A south suburban woman is dead after she was apparently beaten and strangled in a domestic-related incident in her Back-of-the-Yards neighborhood home Sunday evening.

A baby boy died after his mother reportedly delivered him herself in a car Sunday morning on the Far South Side.

COMMENT ON THIS STORY POSEN, Ill. - Police are having a hard time stopping gang members from spray painting their graffiti throughout the village.

A federal investigation of the nation's largest single-site county jail has uncovered serious sanitation and medical care problems, as well as violence against prisoners who clashed with guards or failed to ...

A 13-year-old runaway was ordered held in juvenile court Friday morning after she somehow -- while shackled and handcuffed -- stole a minivan that was taking her to the police station Thursday afternoon near ...

A 17-month federal investigation of the nation's largest single-site county jail has uncovered serious sanitation and medical care problems as well as violence directed against prisoners who clashed with guards ...

For 23 years, the Rev. Andre Allen has led DuPage County's oldest predominantly black church and worked to improve race relations in the broader community.

A 17-month federal investigation has found numerous abuses at the nation's largest single-site county jail, including a failure to protect prisoners from being harmed by other inmates and staff, officials said ...

A homeless man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to charges that he beat another homeless man to death last year with a rock.

POSTED: 10:43 pm CDT July 16, 2008 UPDATED: 11:01 pm CDT July 16, 2008 CICERO, Ill.

A local doctor had his license suspended Tuesday, less than a week after he was arrested on charges of selling drugs without a prescription.

Chicago Police detectives are investigating the stabbing death of a young girl whose father found her in an alley near his South Side home.

An 9-year-old girl was found sexually assaulted and slain early Tuesday in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side.

A pedestrian struck by a Metra train Monday night in west suburban Elmwood Park has died.

Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line trains are skipping the Western Avenue stop on the Near West Side Monday morning and trains are running on a single track through the area, after a person was struck and ...