Cook County has a 'practical, low-cost' strategy to help police handle mental health calls
The model uses technology to provide help from clinicians to those out in the field. It's expanding in Cook County and to ...
Lives are lost in south suburban Cook County because it's a trauma center desert
Beyond Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, there are no trauma centers in the county's south suburbs. Leaders at the ...
Daywatch: Cook County housing authority workers say they struggle to pay bills
Her bills piled up. While she never fell behind on her mortgage payments, her credit card debt was “getting too out of ...
Older adults face financial, accessibility challenges living in suburban Cook County, study finds
AgeOptions finds financial insecurity, social isolation, housing issues and caregiver support needs for Cook County older ...
Report: Cook County Conviction Integrity Unit repeatedly denied freedom to inmates who were later exonerated
Dan Hinkel, Senior Reporter with "Injustice Watch" appeared on the WGN Evening News to share details in his story about the ...
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It’s Time to Talk About Environmental Justice in Cook County
Twenty years ago the ponds of Izaak Walton Forest Preserve in southern Cook County looked very different. Clean and clear, ...
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Cook County’s Conviction Integrity Unit Repeatedly Denied Freedom To Incarcerated People Who Were Later Cleared
Despite its celebrated record of exonerating more people than any comparable unit nationwide, an Injustice Watch investigation found 21 people who were denied relief by the group before flawed ...
Cook County Jail inmate charged in 2020 fatal shootings
A Chicago man already behind bars is now facing multiple murder charges for a series of fatal shootings that took place in ...
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Cook County man, in jail since 2020, charged in additional five slayings
Antonio Reyes, now 21, has been held since late 2020, already charged with one killing earlier that year. This week, CPD ...
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Cook County Launches $2 Million Grant Program to Support Community-Based Arts Projects in the Suburbs
The Cook County Creative Placemaking program will award grants of $50,000 to $250,000 to suburban-based nonprofit ...
Former Cook County assistant state's attorneys found not guilty of misconduct
It was the first time assistant Cook County state's attorneys were criminally charged for their work as prosecutors, and they ...
Jerry ‘Ice Man' Butler, soul singer and former Cook County Commissioner, dies at 85
Jerry Butler, a premier soul singer of the 1960s and after whose rich, intimate baritone graced such hits as "For Your ...