Mickey Ciokajlo

Cook County has agreed to pay $362,500 to settle a federal lawsuit brought by a County Jail inmate who charged that he and other inmates were the victims of a...

No one accuses Callie Baird of taking a soft career path. She got her start in the Cook County public defender's office, an often thankless job. From there it was...

As firefighters pulled their trucks to a halt outside 135 S. LaSalle St. Monday night, smoke was already spreading into the stairwells as flames surged through a 29th-floor office. Almost...

Investigators on Tuesday sifted through charred debris in the LaSalle Bank building as city officials asserted that reforms adopted after last year's tragic blaze in another Loop high-rise paid off...

Three lawsuits were filed Tuesday against the tour bus company involved in last month's deadly Arkansas crash that killed half the passengers on their way from Chicago to a Mississippi...

As they celebrated a Republican victory in the race for the Illinois Supreme Court, business interests on Wednesday declared the sound defeat of Democratic Judge Gordon Maag to be a...

Staff members under Cook County Sheriff Michael Sheahan on Monday backed away from earlier reports that it might have taken up to 30 minutes for guards at the Cook County...

For the second time in two months, a small fire at the Cook County Criminal Courts Administration Building has left officials pointing fingers at each other over handling of the...

William Kennedy Smith, who with a nation watching was acquitted of rape and battery in 1991 by a Florida jury, was accused in a civil lawsuit filed Wednesday of sexually...