Illinois counties are seeking to secede from Chicago and Cook County to form a new state, and Indiana has introduced a bill to create a boundary adjustment commission to consider the possibility ...

Cook County enacted the tax in 2012, charging $25 per firearm and up to 5 cents per round of ammunition. The Illinois Supreme ...

The Cook County judge who presided over two order of protection cases in which the suspects went on to allegedly kill a woman ...

A Central Illinois man is being held after being charged with murder in the 2020 death of a Harvey woman whose partially ...

Both defendants had testified that they switched antiseptics following the incident as a way of "practicing defensive ...

The findings are particularly relevant for northeast Illinois, where more than 777,000 tons of sludge from Chicago and Cook County have been spread on farmland during the past eight years.

The settlement ensures that park district commissioners cannot privatize the beach but does not stop them from trying to ...

After years of warm relations with the Biden White House, a grim reality sets in for Illinois, with Donald Trump inauguration ...