Mickey Ciokajlo

Finding the testimony of gang members more credible than that of a veteran police officer, a Cook County jury Thursday awarded $1.5 million to the family of an unarmed man...

A federal jury Wednesday awarded $700,000 to a Cook County sheriff's employee who alleged that an older male worker with connections to Sheriff Michael Sheahan used crude sexual language toward...

Fresh on the heels of a U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down laws against homosexual sex, the Cook County Board voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to establish a domestic partnership registry where...

One year after they were appointed to investigate charges that former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge and his officers had tortured murder suspects, Special Prosecutors Edward Egan and Robert Boyle...

Before a packed courtroom Wednesday, a Cook County circuit judge rejected a Glenbrook North High School senior's request to block her suspension for participating in a violent hazing as two...

Jurors who heard the weeklong trial of Bruno Mancari for the 1985 murder of a childhood friend and one-time criminal associate said a lack of specifics linking Mancari to the...

A 21-year-old security guard apologized Friday for throwing a cell phone that hit a player Thursday at Wrigley Field, saying he brought "shame and embarrassment" to his beloved Cubs and...

Cook County Forest Preserve officials closed Dan Ryan Woods on Chicago's South Side Friday after police officers spotted two or three menacing dogs. The closing, which will be effective at...

A Cook County judge Tuesday denied custody of a boy to a transgender male, ruling that same sex marriages are illegal in Illinois and so the "father" had no legal...

A Cook County judge on Thursday refused to return property seized from the E2 nightclub where 21 patrons died in a stampede after city lawyers said investigators were not finished...