Cook County News

A 36-year-old man was found shot to death in a car in the Morgan Park area this morning, and two other men were shot in separate incidents on the South and Southwest sides, police said.

After a few years of belt-tightening, the library is out of the woods with healthier finances heading into the 2013 calendar year, Library Director Holly Sorensen said.

A federal appeals court Thursday declared that the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutionally denies federal benefits to married gay couples, a groundbreaking ruling all but certain to wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Lauren Obrien, 18, of Fox River Grove, has been charged in two Lincoln Park-area robberies, including one in which the robber threatened a store clerk with a syringe.

CHICAGO A collaboration of healthcare agencies, including the Cook County Health & Hospitals System, the Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center and other AIDS service organizations throughout the city of Chicago, announced today the launch of a campaign called STEP UP, GET TESTED: ChicaGO for 5K, the first-ever collaborative National HIV Testing Day event ... (more)

LIke a growing number of states, Illinois has a law that expressly allows mothers to breast-feed their babies in public, even if they do so in a manner that others deem to be immodest.

James Kluppelberg is set to be released, after exonerated of charges that he set a deadly arson fire in 1984.

The woman found lying on the sidewalk in front of the Des Plaines police station Monday morning, died from heart disease , an autopsy from the Cook County medical examiner's office showed, TribLocal reported.

As Evanston aldermen consider methods for dissolving the township they also oversee as trustees, they want an auditor to tell them exactly what services the township provides and who receives them.

A measure to halt the expansion of landfills in Cook County survived a House vote on Wednesday despite multiple concerns about circumventing local authority.

The credibility of Lawrence A. Draus, the key witness in a criminal case against a Tinley Park animal rescue owner, continues to dog prosecutors and is expected to be the centerpiece of the defense when trial commences later this year.

John L. Wilson has been charged with the murder of 14-year-old Kelli O'Laughlin of Indian Head Park The man accused of killing an Indian Head Park teenager in her own home will not act as his own attorney as he previously wished, he told his trial judge Wednesday.

May 20: Brian M. Krasner, age 22, of 404 Torrey Pines Way, Vernon Hills, was arrested for aggravated DUI, driving while license revoked, tinted front driver and passenger side windows, improper turn, illegal transportation of alcohol, no insurance, improper lane usage and unlawful possession of controlled substance at Route 14 and Shorely Drive.

Fearing a Cook County takeover of Will County politics, a Frankfort man is planning to run for a state Senate seat against Democratic incumbent Toi Hutchinson of the Chicago Heights area.A J.C. "Tuck" Marshall, 65, was slated by the Will County Republican Party to oppose Hutchinson in the 2012 election for Illinois' 40th District Senate seat.A ... (more)

Unable to reach a settlement on how to divvy up a $118 million jackpot, former co-workers at a Chicago Heights bakery who were involved in a Mega Millions lottery pool are due back in court June 11 at the Daley Center in Chicago, an attorney said Tuesday.

Carlos Briones, left, and Richard Rykhus, of Evanston, are plaintiffs in the ACLU suit.

Two suspects are in custody in connection with the weekend stabbing death of a 17-year-old Chicago Heights boy, which is believed to be gang-related, police said Tuesday.

Smokers are on the verge of having to dig deeper to support their habit after the Illinois Senate voted Tuesday to increase the state cigarette tax by $1 a pack.

Danny Johnson has been cleared of charges of attacking a Chicaog Police officer during a protest on May 15.

Eleven people are dead and at least 43 others were wounded in holiday weekend shootings across the city since Friday, including a 7-year-old girl shot while playing in front of her South Side home.