Cook County (Illinois) Board of Review commissioner found not guilty of DUI

A Cook County elected official who was accused of drunk driving in late 2024 has been found not guilty. Samantha Steele, who ...
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 ...
Hoodline

Cook County Prosecutor Fights To Block Exonerated People's Certificates

Cook County prosecutors are contesting most certificates of innocence, keeping exonerees tied up in court and delaying ...
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 ...
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 ...
CIDRAP

Public Health Alerts: Detection of a single measles infection using untargeted ultra-deep metagenomic sequencing of wastewater in Cook County, Illinois

A Public Health Alerts report today describes the detection of measles virus in wastewater in the Chicago area that was ...