Mickey Ciokajlo

Federal agents are investigating allegations of abuse by staff members at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, sources said Thursday. Ross Rice, FBI spokesman, confirmed the Chicago office began...

Every morning, Cook County Board President John Stroger does exercises on the edge of his bed at Rush University Medical Center. He sees visitors, said his son, Chicago Ald. Todd...

Democratic precinct captain Mike Bawiec was walking door to door in the Northwest Side's 45th Ward on Saturday, carrying sample ballots of preferred candidates, when he arrived at the home...

The stroke that Cook County Board President John Stroger suffered this week was more serious than doctors originally thought, his physicians said Friday, and they are unsure whether he can...

Training their sights on the front-runner with a month to go before the primary election, Republican candidates for governor Bill Brady, Ron Gidwitz and Jim Oberweis collectively hammered Judy Baar...

In a bizarre conclusion to a bad week for Cook County Sheriff Michael Sheahan, another inmate escaped Friday, and the sheriff himself captured her a few hours later. County correctional...

At least seven hours before six inmates escaped from the Cook County Jail on Saturday, Chicago police told jail officials that a South Side man had reported he knew of...

A major corporation and two of its employees were indicted in a fraud scheme to win a $49 million Cook County contract, a deal that also involved bribery of a...

Calling it mind-boggling that Cook County Board President John Stroger has failed to include additional jail guards in his 2006 budget proposal, a federal judge scolded county commissioners Wednesday and...

The mother of 6-year-old Joshua Woods blames air traffic controllers and two Southwest Airlines pilots for her son's Dec. 8 death when a jetliner skidded off a snowy runway at...