The arrests happened near 75th Street and Dobson Avenue, where members of the Sheriff’s Police Organized Crime Division ...

A Cook County fugitive who failed to appear in court earlier this year was arrested in Chicago with drugs and a fake ID, ...

Eileen O’Neil Burke wants to amend the Illinois criminal code to consider attacks on reproductive health clinics terrorism.

Hammad was last seen alive by her mother at her home Friday morning before she was later reported to be in the area near West 87th Street and South LaGrange Road, the Cook County Sheriff's Office ...

Brian Ernst / Sun-Times Share When Cook County sheriff’s deputies burst into the Maywood home of 74-year-old Velma Lewis with a battering ram, it wasn’t because she had committed a crime.

The young woman's body was found on a walking trail in an Illinois forest preserve Cook County Sheriff's Office Reanna Hammad was last seen by her mom on May 16 Two days later, her body was ...

"It was very hard to see and to work through. And still to this day, it’s difficult," Cook County Sheriff's Commander Jason Moran said. "It was difficult to understand how this could happen." ...