Cook County News

The Illinois Department of Public Health's weekly update brings the total number of deaths in the state from the virus to 56.

William Burtner survived Vietnam and dedicated his life to helping veterans. On Monday, Burtner was about to enter a Midlothian bank to deposit money the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2580 had raised during a benefit.

The Cook County State's Attorney's office has fired two investigators following the September 17 escape of a suspect while he was being taken to a court hearing in the Northwest suburbs.

Armed with a new, lower requirement to override a veto, Cook County Board members will try again this week to roll back the 1 percentage-point increase in the sales tax imposed last year.

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed a lawsuit against two Chicago-area hair growth businesses that guarantee clients results in less than six months.

Robert Maday, the career criminal who allegedly escaped from custody and went on a crime spree in the northwest suburbs in September, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges related to the escape.

A woman accused of beating her 5-year-old daughter to death in 2007 pleaded guilty to the charges Tuesday.

Kurt "Ike" Eichaker's first run at political office may not get out of the starting block.

Monday, Nov 16, 2009 * Strange days, indeed The e-mails came about an hour apart Saturday.

A man was charged Sunday morning in a shooting that wounded three last week in the South Side Chatham neighborhood.

For at least a handful of businesses in Cook County seeking capital, the cavalry may be here.

A registered sex offender with a history of abusing a child was held on $350,000 bond Friday after being charged with being on an elementary school playground during dismissal time Thursday on the Northwest Side.

A Brighton Park neighborhood man was charged Thursday night in the slaying a west suburban man after a Sunday morning argument at a Lincoln Park jazz club.

A Chicago man has died more than two weeks after falling from a horse in Barrington Hills.

The Cook County Health Department has announced a series of vaccine clinics over the next several Saturdays.

Murder charges are anticipated against a 51-year-old man accused of killing his elderly aunt, who died early Thursday from injuries suffered after an apparent struggle in her west suburban home last month.

A Chicago man died Wednesday, more than two weeks after falling from a horse in Barrington Hills.

Visitors to Stroger, Oak Forest and Provident hospitals must be over the age of 18.

A man and woman from Des Plaines were arrested after leaving left three children in a van while they burglarized a home Sunday night in the Northwest Side Irving Park neighborhood.

A legal battle between Northwestern University and Cook County prosecutors heated up Tuesday with the allegation that student journalists paid a witness in a murder case they were investigating in 2004 - cash that the witness later used to buy cocaine.