With changes underway, here are some cases and issues to watch for in 2026: As Chicagoland was roiled this autumn by the ...

Good morning, Chicago. In 2025, Cook County began the year with a new state’s attorney and ended it with a new chief judge, ushering in another era for one of the largest court systems in the country.

In his first month as Cook County’s new chief judge, Charles Beach said he has worked to improve transparency, strengthen ...

Cook County is predicting a $211.4 million budget shortfall for 2026, a relatively modest gap that officials said was more of an estimate than usual thanks to extraordinary uncertainty coming out of ...

Revisit some of our team’s outstanding reporting from this past year, including our investigations into tax foreclosures, a rogue forensics lab, juvenile detention, wrongful convictions, and the ...

Cook County health officials are reporting a jump in flu activity in the Chicago suburbs, with emergency room visits nearly ...

UPDATE: Upon further investigation, the Chicago Department of Public Health has determined that the Chicago Public Library Independence Branch is no longer considered a measles exposure location, as ...

The National Weather Service has issued an Extreme Heat Watch for Cook County starting Saturday morning and lasting into next week for an early-summer heat wave building in our area. Chicago can ...