A 31-year-old Chicago man is being held pending trial in the Cook County Jail, charged with first-degree murder stemming from ...

This is the first time two brides won the marriage license lottery and tied the knot. Two men won back in 2022.

Melissa Nunez and Elizabeth Branske won Cook County's annual lottery for the first wedding of 2026, becoming the first ...

A virtual hearing for the Kamas mom accused of killing her husband took place Friday as attorneys prepare for the trial set to begin in February.

The Comanche County Commissioners Court met on December 22 at 9:00a.m. at the county annex building on 204 E. Oak St. in ...

On Friday, the three-judge appellate panel said only six Illinois families will continue with their infant-formula injury claims in the Cook County Circuit Court, while 23 other claims will have to ...

Illinois has strengthened its labor laws and improved efforts to collect stolen wages. But hundreds of cases linger in Cook County court, leaving workers waiting years to be fully compensated, an ...

Nearly two dozen lawsuits lodged by trial lawyers on behalf of out-of-state plaintiffs seeking to use Cook County's famously plaintiff-friendly courts to score potentially big judgments against baby ...

If you are still staring at your eyewatering Cook County property tax bill — due Dec. 15, as in Monday — you might well be wondering what would happen if you failed to pay in a timely fashion. First, ...

Cook County has a new chief judge for the first time in nearly 25 years. Judge Charles Beach has inherited the nation’s second-largest unified court system — and it comes with some baggage. The Office ...

A federal judge ruled that Cook County’s system for handling unpaid property taxes violates the Constitution, delivering a major victory for homeowners who lost their properties and accumulated equity ...