Democratic candidate for state’s attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke declared victory over Republican candidate Bob Fioretti, shortly after The Associated Press called the race. She had 65% of the vote with ...

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke is rolling out a tightly focused new experiment on Chicago’s West Side that ...

A program led by Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke will use $1 million in new funding to provide academic and ...

The Cook County state’s attorney’s office announced Friday that it is expanding a pilot program allowing Chicago police officers to bypass prosecutors and directly file charges in some low-level ...

In April, the electronic monitoring program shifted from Sheriff Tom Dart’s jurisdiction to the Cook County Chief Judge’s office, which lacks law enforcement authority. Essentially, O’Neill says that ...

Under the law, concealed carry permit holders are allowed to transport their weapons on trains and buses, but only if they are secured in a locked container and unloaded.

A state probe into a potential conflict of interest and spending issues at the nonprofit supporting Cook County’s hospital system has closed after no violations were found, though internal strife that ...

CHICAGO -- In a classic Chicago-way document dump, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx released thousands of pages of Jussie Smollett records after 5 p.m. Friday. The records were turned over under ...

The county's top prosecutor promised a new approach when she was sworn in six months ago. At her swearing-in ceremony six months ago, Cook County's top prosecutor promised a new approach to tackling ...