Cook County News

Tyrone McDowell Jr. worked in the Cook County Jail's Trust Department. But prosecutors say he betrayed his employer's trust repeatedly this year.

Cook County Commissioner Peter Silvestri was elected to the Board in 1994 and is currently serving his fourth term.

Share + Nov 5, 2009 4:17 pm US/Central MARKHAM, Ill. A Chicago man was found guilty Wednesday of slashing the throat of a woman with a hunting knife as she walked near a Metra station in south suburban Blue Island in 2005.

Just hours after a state board voted Wednesday to allow the enforcement of a long-debated Illinois law requiring a teenage girl's parents be notified before she has an abortion, a judge issued a temporary restraining order putting the measure back on hold.

A woman has died Wednesday night after a fire at her home in west suburban River Grove, according to the Cook County Medical Examinera s Office.

A Westchester man has been charged with murdering a Niles man who was shot dead Wednesday in west suburban Stone Park.

Illinois was cleared Wednesday to start enforcing a hotly debated law requiring that a teenage girl's parents be notified before she has an abortion, after a vote by the state's Medical Disciplinary Board.

A former handyman convicted of killing seven people at a suburban Chicago fast food restaurant has been sentenced to life in prison.

Unincorporated Cook County Near Stickney - Two apparently homeless men were killed by an Amtrak train in unincorporated Cook County near west suburban Stickney Tuesday night.

Springfield- Jim Ryan officially launched his campaign to become the state's next governor here in front of the capitol.

A JURY said on Tuesday that former New York Stock Exchange president Gerald Putnam cheated his former partner out of millions of dollars in a business venture that was central to the migration of exchange trading from pits to computer screens.

A Lake County judge declined to reduce bond for a Cook County man who was found with an AK-47, several handguns and $500,000 in jewelry that were stolen from a Barrington Hills home in September.

A 15-year-old boy was held on $1 million bond Monday after being charged with attempted murder for his alleged role in a gang-related Halloween night shooting in northwest suburban Streamwood.

A 24-year-old woman died after being shot in the chest Sunday morning at a party in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.

Cook County health officials are backing away from a plan to cut services at two public hospitals.

A 17-year-old Des Plaines girl died Thursday night -- almost two months after a North Side crash where the car she was in was traveling in the wrong direction on Lake Shore Drive.

CHICAGO a * The rain that fell overnight is expected to leave the city soggy throughout the day Friday, and it has already left several major thoroughfares washed out.

And now for something truly scary. Halloween has arrived, and the Illinois legislature is providing residents with their biggest shrieks of the season.

A Joliet woman has been charged with theft in connection with the embezzlement of $500,000 from a spring manufacturing company.

Cook County health officials plan to offer swine flu vaccine by appointment at four sites in the suburbs.