With changes underway, here are some cases and issues to watch for in 2026: As Chicagoland was roiled this autumn by the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, more than 100 people have landed ...

Democratic candidate for state’s attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke declared victory over Republican candidate Bob Fioretti, shortly after The Associated Press called the race. She had 65% of the vote with ...

The Cook County state’s attorney’s office announced Friday that it is expanding a pilot program allowing Chicago police officers to bypass prosecutors and directly file charges in some low-level ...

A program led by Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke will use $1 million in new funding to provide academic and after-school support services to teen boys who otherwise may have been ...

The county's top prosecutor promised a new approach when she was sworn in six months ago. At her swearing-in ceremony six months ago, Cook County's top prosecutor promised a new approach to tackling ...

A state probe into a potential conflict of interest and spending issues at the nonprofit supporting Cook County’s hospital system has closed after no violations were found, though internal strife that ...

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke is rolling out a tightly focused new experiment on Chicago’s West Side that would let some teenage boys swap pretrial detention for school-based ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court says the Illinois Attorney's General office and the Cook County State's Attorney's ...

CHICAGO -- In a classic Chicago-way document dump, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx released thousands of pages of Jussie Smollett records after 5 p.m. Friday. The records were turned over under ...