Cook County News

Chicago Police captured three of four occupants of a vehicle that fatally ran over a pedestrian during a hit-and-run incident late Wednesday in west suburban Cicero.

Share + Jul 9, 2009 11:22 am US/Central 1 of 2 Tiffany Robinson stands outside the gate of Burr Oak Cemetery hoping to receive information about her cousin's grave July 8, 2009, in Alsip, Illinois.

Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was joined today by Jody P. Weis, Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department and Tom Dart, Cook County Sheriff, in announcing the arrest of two southern Indiana residents in a murder-for hire plot.

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says workers at historic Burr Ridge Cemetery in the Chicago suburb of Alsip appear to have dug up more than 100 graves, dumped the bodies into unmarked mass graves and resold the plots to unsuspecting members of the public Dart said at a news conference Wednesday that his office was questioning five cemetery employees ...

Illinois prosecutors say they're seeking the death penalty for a Chicago man who allegedly beat his landlord to death with garden tools.

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A Cook County court on June 25 found a Maywood man guilty of killing his 3-month-old son.

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.