Cook County News

A 21-year-old Hoffman Estates man faces charges of attempted aggravated arson and unlawful restraint after police say he built a "homemade incendiary device."

Chief Keef's judge, Cook County Judge Earl Hoffenberg of the Skokie courthouse, told the rapper's three lawyers that he's had murderers who haven't had so much time as Chief Keef has had before his court, and - he asserts - it's getting ridiculous.

Ceil Barclay has worn many hats in the last 30 years, but none has been more important to her than her work with the U.S. military.

The settlement approved Wednesday in Cook County probate court gives one-third of Urooj Khan's lottery winnings to his widow, according to her attorney, Al-Haroon Husain.

Illinois attorney general Lisa Madigan and the Illinois Department of Revenue have announced charges against four Chicago-area gas station owners for defrauding the state of more than $1 million in sales taxes.

Angkham Souvonghkan, 34, of Niles, was charged with domestic battery Dec. 1 after Niles police were called to a home in the 7900 block of Caldwell.

Police say a suburban ambulance driver was three times over the legal limit for alcohol when he ran a red light, his emergency lights and sirens on, and crashed into a pickup truck in the Sheridan Park neighborhood on the North Side.

Old Plank Trail Community Bank recently presented a $1,000 check to the New Hope Center, Inc. At the event were Timothy Knapp, executive director of New Hope Center; Paul Slade, chairman and CEO, Old Plank Trail Community Bank; Rebecca Nagle, assistant vice president/market manager at Old Plank Trail Community Bank; and Phillip Paige, treasurer of ... (more)

A recent ruling by the Illinois Supreme Court on the controversy over where sales tax must be collected has Grundy County officials worried about lost sales tax revenue that could put a nearly $2 million hole in the county budget.

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart and county board President Toni Preckwinkle on Wednesday dedicated a monument to more than 13,000 poor or unidentified people who are buried at Homewood Memorial Gardens.

After Mother Nature clobbered us with the season's first accumulating snowfall of the season last Sunday, we received 98 Facebook reviews of the village's snow removal efforts: "Haven't seen a salt truck!!!! Bridgeview was salted very nice had to go to menards on way back down 91st street seem 3 crashes on 91st street."

Stanley Wrice walked out of a central Illinois prison on Wednesday, freed after 30 years behind bars, after his rape conviction was tossed out because he had been tortured into confessing.

Cook County Department of Public Health officials are advising residents to take precautions against the extremely cold temperatures today and in the coming days.

Cook County Department of Public Health officials are advising residents to take precautions against the extremely cold temperatures today and in the coming days.

A man trying to rob a South Side cell phone store was shot and killed by the store's owner Tuesday evening.

A gang member will spend the rest of his life in prison for the murder of an Iraq war veteran who was an innocent bystander to a shooting that followed a bar brawl in 2007.

Officials are gearing up for more snow on top of dangerously low temperatures in the Chicago area and north central Illinois.

The website hosted nude and explicit images of people that, according to the arrest warrant , had been uploaded by jilted lovers in "revenge" for some perceived transgression, or by hackers who stole the pictures by breaking into the victim's computer or Facebook account.

A Chicago gynecologist was sentenced to 18 years in prison Tuesday for raping his pregnant patient while performing an exam on her in his South Side office.

Two Des Plaines men convicted in October for attacking another man with a handheld dumbbell were sentenced on Monday - one to prison and the other to probation on top of jail time he's already served.