More than half of those charged in Cook County with felony firearm cases involving modified weapons have been detained ...

CHICAGO — The people will have a new representative in the nation's second largest criminal court system later this year. While final confirmation on who will succeed Cook County State's ...

The Cook County state's attorney said her office is now making domestic violence cases a priority after a number of recent murders tied to domestic cases.

It was the first time assistant Cook County state's attorneys were criminally charged for their work as prosecutors, and they say their acquittals prove they should never have been charged in the ...

Attorneys for Tyrece Williams celebrated the decision, but also urged Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke to ...

In the early evening on Feb. 19, two Chicago police officers arrested a 40-year-old man in the Englewood neighborhood.

Two former Cook County assistant state’s attorneys on Wednesday were acquitted of multiple felony counts following an unusual criminal trial connected to an infamous Chicago wrongful conviction ...

Cook County State's Attorney Eileen Burke proposes Illinois first-time offenders participate in a program which will lead to them legally owning a weapon.

CHICAGO - A man in Cook County custody was charged in connection with a 2023 carjacking on the Eisenhower Expressway. Eric ...

Cook County assistant state’s attorneys filed a union petition in 1993, but the Illinois Supreme Court later ruled that the prosecutors were “managerial employees” without the right to unionize.

A suburban man is facing felony charges after he allegedly ran over and killed a coworker at an Illinois Tollway yard in ...

A majority of Cook County assistant state’s attorneys in the proposed bargaining unit have signed union authorization cards with Teamsters Local 700, according to a letter sent to State’s ...