Mickey Ciokajlo

Sounding unbowed in the hours after she conceded defeat Wednesday, Ald. Dorothy Tillman looked back at the ward she served for 23 years, a onetime stronghold that had in recent...

Two city building inspectors are among four more people charged as part of an investigation of City Hall bribery, according to criminal complaints unsealed Thursday. A total of five people...

Cook County has sent layoff notices to nearly 1,000 doctors, public defenders, sheriff's deputies and other workers in anticipation of a County Board vote Thursday on the 2007 budget. The...

Cook County's health bureau could lose an enormous amount of money from Medicaid--its single largest revenue source--if it closes 14 of its 26 medical clinics, the governor's health-care adviser warned...

A coalition of Cook County Board members on Wednesday submitted a plan to restore money for frontline services while cutting hundreds of administrative jobs from the 2007 budget proposal. With...

Illinois public hospitals could lose $623 million annually, including as much as $235 million for the Cook County hospital system, under a change to Medicaid rules being pushed by the...

Christopher Kozicki rigged an interview score to hire a politically connected teenager as a building inspector, but Mayor Richard Daley Tuesday defended the decision to keep Kozicki on the city...

The upheaval at the top levels of the beleaguered Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center continued Thursday as Supt. J.W. Fairman confirmed that he had resigned, and Circuit Court Chief...

Cook County's chief medical examiner announced his retirement Tuesday, saying his decision was spurred in part by a proposed 10 percent cut to his 2007 budget. Dr. Edmund R. Donoghue,...

A court-appointed monitor says her relationship with administrators at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center has deteriorated during the last month, with "adversarial" officials limiting her access, slowing the...