Cook County News

It's a bittersweet time for Wayne Mikes of Mikes Bike Shop in Palatine. Raging gas prices have recently meant an influx of customers to his shop at 155 N. Northwest Hwy., but now the other shoe is about to ...

Chicago's no Second City, at least not when it comes to sales taxes. A boost in the Cook County sales tax that took effect on Tuesday means people shopping in Chicago now pay a cumulative 10.25 percent levy - ...

Robin Johnson, 44, has been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Chicago Police officer Richard Francis.

A Midlothian man was arrested Monday at a Posen gas station for keeping his two children in a cage in his pickup truck in order to control them, police said Thursday morning.

The Cook County medical examiner's office says 60-year-old Richard Francis was pronounced dead at Illinois Masonic Medical Center a little over an hour after the shooting this morning.

An amateur body-builder is suing the Chicago Free Press and a North Side gay bar after the paper ran an ad featuring him clad in leather and chains, allegedly without his consent.

A man has been charged with drunken driving for a crash on the shoulder of the Bishop Ford Freeway early Saturday that killed his 22-year-old brother.

An on-duty Chicago police officer died early Wednesday after a woman took his gun and shot him near a Northwest Side police station.

He's now also charged with possession of heroin. Chicago officers spotted him buying the dope on the platform at the Cicero Green Line L station about 7:40 p.m., police said.

An elderly man living in a South Side nursing home with a history of negligence and state-mandated fines was beaten to death, an autopsy determined Friday.

An 18-year-old man was charged with murder early Friday for the fatal shooting of man shot while riding in a funeral procession Monday on the Southwest Side.

A spokesman for the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad says a woman using a walker was struck and killed by a Union Pacific freight train using one of the other railroad's line.

Authorities are investigating the death of a Mount Prospect woman found dead in a vehicle at a Prospect Heights library.

A freight train fatally struck a woman Sunday evening in west suburban Berwyn . A train struck a woman near Oak Park and Stanley avenues, according to the Berwyn Fire Department .

Cruz Brizuela, 22, is dead following a crash involving a pickup truck and a semi truck early Saturday on the shoulder of the Bishop Ford Freeway.

Cook County sheriff's police say they have seized a large cache of illegal fireworks from a Bridgeview trailer in a crackdown on the explosives before Independence Day.

A Cook County judge has sentenced a Chicago man to 80 years in prison because of his conviction earlier this year in the robbery, sexual assault and abduction of an Evanston woman.

A Glenview woman accused of stealing a dump truck in broad daylight Saturday from a job site in the North Shore suburb was ordered held on a $20,000 bond Monday.

Police were apparently involved in a shooting in western suburbs early Thursday morning.

Jessie McDonald and her husband, Jim "Mac" McDonald, worked hard and saved hard during their 61 years of marriage.