Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle has announced $20 million of taxpayer funding for community violence intervention. Preckwinkle said the county has spent $110 ...

Note: The video in the player above is from a previous report. Workers across Cook County will receive at least one week of paid leave a year under a measure echoing Illinois' Paid Leave for All ...

Cook County Sheriff's Police will be conducting a traffic safety checkpoint in Crestwood, Thursday, June 18, to Friday, June ...

The city of Chicago, Cook County, and the state of Illinois plan to appeal President Trump's decision to deny a disaster declaration that would have provided federal relief funding for homes and ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Cook County Clerk's Office said mail-in ballots are still being counted Thursday for the Illinois primary election. The Cook County state's attorney's race remained too close to ...

Several services at the Cook County Clerk's Office, including creating and distributing paper copies of birth, death and marriage certificates were delayed following the death of Cook County Clerk ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Cook County State's Attorney Illinois 2024 primary race has turned into the tightest contest on the ballot Tuesday night, with candidates Clayton Harris III and Eileen O'Neill ...

Cook County, Illinois, officials released a $9.89 billion executive budget recommendation Thursday, after saying in a press briefing Wednesday that the nation's second-most populous county will see no ...

ILLINOIS – Should Cook County, home to Chicago and sprawling suburbs, break away from Illinois to form a new state? Voters in several Illinois counties could encounter a striking question, similarly ...

Illinois and Cook County have pledged about $250 million in funding to aid the ongoing migrant crisis, but the city says it never committed to provide its own share of $71 million. State, county and ...