Cook County News

A Westchester man has been charged with murdering a Niles man who was shot dead Wednesday in west suburban Stone Park.

Illinois was cleared Wednesday to start enforcing a hotly debated law requiring that a teenage girl's parents be notified before she has an abortion, after a vote by the state's Medical Disciplinary Board.

A former handyman convicted of killing seven people at a suburban Chicago fast food restaurant has been sentenced to life in prison.

Unincorporated Cook County Near Stickney - Two apparently homeless men were killed by an Amtrak train in unincorporated Cook County near west suburban Stickney Tuesday night.

Springfield- Jim Ryan officially launched his campaign to become the state's next governor here in front of the capitol.

A JURY said on Tuesday that former New York Stock Exchange president Gerald Putnam cheated his former partner out of millions of dollars in a business venture that was central to the migration of exchange trading from pits to computer screens.

A Lake County judge declined to reduce bond for a Cook County man who was found with an AK-47, several handguns and $500,000 in jewelry that were stolen from a Barrington Hills home in September.

A 15-year-old boy was held on $1 million bond Monday after being charged with attempted murder for his alleged role in a gang-related Halloween night shooting in northwest suburban Streamwood.

A 24-year-old woman died after being shot in the chest Sunday morning at a party in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.

Cook County health officials are backing away from a plan to cut services at two public hospitals.

A 17-year-old Des Plaines girl died Thursday night -- almost two months after a North Side crash where the car she was in was traveling in the wrong direction on Lake Shore Drive.

CHICAGO a * The rain that fell overnight is expected to leave the city soggy throughout the day Friday, and it has already left several major thoroughfares washed out.

And now for something truly scary. Halloween has arrived, and the Illinois legislature is providing residents with their biggest shrieks of the season.

A Joliet woman has been charged with theft in connection with the embezzlement of $500,000 from a spring manufacturing company.

Cook County health officials plan to offer swine flu vaccine by appointment at four sites in the suburbs.

More than 100 people were arrested and more than $100,000 in guns, drugs and cash were seized during a six-month Cook County Sheriff's police investigation targeting northwest suburban crime.

An Illinois legal-reform group released a study Wednesday suggesting Cook County is squandering millions of dollars annually with a lax approach to fighting frivolous lawsuits.

Thousands of children in Palatine will be among the first today to receive free H1N1 vaccinations from the Cook County Health Department.

Cook County Sheriff's police say two young men from Chicago's southern suburbs are accused of preying on mourners by looting unlocked cars during funeral services.

Illinois State Police say crime overall was down everywhere in the state last year except for Chicago and suburban Cook County.