The Cook County Board of Commissioners and the Justice Advisory Council joined together Wednesday on Chicago's South Side to ...

Cook County’s aquatic invasive species program is preparing for a significant reduction in state funding beginning in 2027, ...

Through June, Cook County has had 220 gun homicides, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. This is 24 more ...

The next round of Cook County property tax bills will be delayed by approximately two months, officials announced Tuesday.

Many American cities and counties have been experimenting with a novel concept: Giving financially vulnerable residents free money every month without expecting anything in return. The goal is to let ...

The Cook County jail’s shuttered Division IV dormitory buildling, 2717 S. Sacramento, is slated for demolition in 2026. The county projects spending more than $1 billion on capital projects at the ...

While most efforts to combat domestic violence focus on victims, survivors and breakdowns in systems meant to protect them, one Cook County program is shifting the work to the abusers and breaking the ...

The second-largest county in the United States has established a permanent guaranteed basic income program after the success of a previous pilot version. The Cook County Board of Commissioners ...

A $300 million no-interest county loan program will help local governments relying on tax revenue they won't get on time, but Chicago Public Schools don't qualify for the loans.