The Cook County Creative Placemaking program will award grants of $50,000 to $250,000 to suburban-based nonprofit ...

Three Cook County residents are being detained after allegedly stealing a high-end SUV and leading police on a high-speed ...

Dozens more victims have come forward claiming they were sexually assaulted while in juvenile correction centers run by the ...

Adding an auction step could make tax-delinquent properties more expensive, but homeowners would receive excess proceeds.

The Supreme Court ruled in May 2023 that tax sales as they've been practiced in several states unconstitutionally rob ...

Thirty-three counties are exploring the possibility of forming a separate state, distancing themselves from Cook County. The Illinois Separation Movement is efforting to get more counties and ...

The federal lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Chicago, claims sanctuary policies in Illinois that keep local ...

Federal officials are asking a judge to bar the Illinois, Chicago, Cook County and the Cook County Sheriff from using local ...

A bill to redraw the Indiana-Illinois border received initial approval Monday in an Indiana House committee, but some ...

Nearly 2 million Illinoisans, with around half in Cook County, relied on federal food assistance in October 2024, marking a ...

More than 30 Illinois counties are looking to leave the state and join another state. Here's what you need to know.