Now in its second decade, the Cook County Jail chess program is thriving, competing internationally and above all — it’s ...

An unusual new lawsuit filed by the Archdiocese of Chicago on Monday alleged a group of mostly West Side residents conspired ...

The ordinance will now acknowledge physical, cultural, and linguistic characteristics as a protected class under its ...

A Cook County judge on Monday ordered a 15-year-old boy held pending trial in the killing of a 16-year-old girl found beaten to death in East Garfield Park earlier this month. The teen boy, whose name ...

Cook County must face an assistant public defender’s claim that it violated her free-speech rights by barring her display of a photograph of her standing with a gun in front of the Israeli flag.

Many voters don’t make the time to cast a ballot in their local elections, and that is a sad statement for our democracy.

The family of an 11-year-old Chicago boy murdered last year by his mother’s ex-boyfriend the day after he was released from prison is suing the state — including the embattled Prisoner Review ...

Chicago police and prosecutors said Marcus Bausley allegedly stabbed a mother to death, stabbed her two young sons and ...

Marcus A. Bausley, an ex-partner of Teone Jones, stalked and harassed her continually before killing her, attacking two of ...