Chicago Reader

Cook County state’s attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s complicated relationship with the Pretrial Fairness Act

Illinois abolished cash bail and drove down the population at the Cook County jail. Under the county’s top prosecutor, it’s rising again.
The Daily Northwestern

Illinois, Cook County relieves $1.5 billion in medical debt

Cook County and the state of Illinois erased upwards of $1.5 billion in medical debt for over 770,000 Cook County residents through the Illinois Medical Debt Relief Program, leaving many county ...
ABC 7 Chicago

Cook County weighs limitations of its medical debt relief initiative

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Cook County program designed to relieve patient medical debt may not be working for everyone. For many struggling to pay their hospital bills, the financial relief may come a little ...
Daily Herald

Cook County’s tax delay exposes Illinois’ worsening business environment

Cook County’s property tax system is way behind schedule again, with second-installment tax bills just mailed Nov. 14 and due Dec. 15 — nearly four months late and just in time for the holidays. As ...
ABC 7 Chicago

Chicago, Cook County and state officials appeal denial of federal aid for damaging summer floods

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois officials are appealing after the federal government denied a request for help after damaging floods this summer. Heavy rain caused flooding on July ...
SCOTUSblog

Peoples v. Cook County, Illinois

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