Cook County News

At least 26 people were wounded, including an 8-year-old boy, during a bloody six hours that left four men dead late Saturday into early Sunday.

Police in southwest suburban Orland Park are investigating the apparent drowning death of a 5-year-old girl.

A 49-year-old Edison Park woman taken into custody Thursday following the stabbing death of her boyfriend in her condominium was released Friday without being charged, said an officer with the Police Department's Office of News Affairs.

Cook County Judge Joseph Urso Thursday granted a defense motion for a psychiatric examination for Jonathan Wood, 40, to determine his fitness to stand trial and his sanity at the time when he is accused of murdering his mother at her Elk Grove Village home.

Share + Jul 2, 2009 4:24 pm US/Central STREAMWOOD, Ill. The body of a northwest suburban man who was recently reported missing was found floating in a nearby lake Wednesday, authorities said.

Cook County State's Attorney's investigators confiscated computers and files on Wednesday morning from the Suburban Cook County Regional Office of Education in Westchester.

Investigators from Cook County state's attorney's office this morning raided the Suburban Cook County Regional Office of Education in Westchester in connection with an ongoing investigation into Supt.

Money troubles in Cook County may dramatically change the case of a man charged in the stabbing deaths of a young woman, her father and her grandmother in Hoffman Estates.

The Cook County State's Attorney's Office declined Monday to prosecute James Mahnich, 27, of the 100 block of Springside Drive, Round Lake, on the charge of aggravated cruelty to an animal in the August 2008 death of his then-girlfriend's dog.

One man is dead and three other males were injured during a gang-related knife fight Sunday afternoon in west suburban Cicero.

State Sen. Matt Murphy is the lastest to say he will run for Governor of Illinois in 2010.

Jun 27, 2009 9:23 pm US/Central A 4-year-old girl died Saturday, three days after being hit by a wave and apparently choking on food at a Southeast Side beach, authorities said.

Five men were fatally shot late Friday and early Saturday during an especially violent night throughout the city and suburbs.

Chicago Police announced early Saturday it is asking for the public's helping locating a vehicle that killed a 13-year-old boy in an April 3 hit-and-run crash.A Martin Urbina Jr., 13, of 3923 W. 70th Pl., was hit by a vehicle April 3 at 5954 S. California Ave.

An Indiana man, a South Side 10-year-old girl and a woman from the Far West Side have all died, at least in part to the heat, autopsies confirmed Friday afternoon.

A woman was killed Thursday night after she was stabbed during a road-rage incident and crashed a short distance away in west suburban Broadview, authorities said.

A man was charged early Thursday for allegedly murdering an Oak Park man during a June 4 argument on the South Side.

A Cook County jury convicted a traveling pianist this evening of viciously butchering his ex-girlfriend and fatally shooting her mother in what prosecutors said was a pre-meditated plan to cash in on the pair's life insurance policies.

A Cicero police officer stands charged with skimming thousands of dollars from his department's fraternal organization.

Jun 23, 2009 2:05 pm US/Central MAYWOOD, Ill. A northwest suburban man was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for the fatal bludgeoning of his estranged wife in 2005.