Robert Becker

Cook County Board President John Stroger's lawsuit challenging how board members at the Regional Transportation Authority, Metra and Pace are named is being viewed by some suburban officials as potentially...

Six months after his appointment as the $364,000-a-year medical director at Cook County Hospital, Dr. Stephen Hamburger has resigned citing "personal reasons," hospital officials said Tuesday. Hospital Director Lacy Thomas...

The first wave of lawsuits was filed Wednesday in Chicago against Sara Lee Corp. in connection with an outbreak of food poisoning that killed 15 people and sickened hundreds of...

Saying she hopes to resolve long-standing accounting errors, Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas is withholding more than $140 million expected by schools and other taxing bodies countywide, because she believes...

The battle over ever-rising liquor prices spilled into Cook County Circuit Court on Thursday as attorneys for the giant liquor distributor owned by Blackhawks president William Wirtz filed suit against...

South and southwest suburban residents and businesses, already among the most taxed in Cook County, won't see many big increases among the property tax rates released by county officials Thursday....

Vito Brugliera has seen the property tax bill on his two-story Georgian home go up 14 times in the nearly 35 years he and his family have lived in Evanston....

When Cook County Forest Preserve District officials denied a picnic permit to organizers of the rowdy party known as Freaknic, they hoped they had squelched any chance of a repeat...

The tapes of cellular phone calls made by off-duty Cook County sheriff's officers last month during an alleged chase involving a young couple will remain under seal until later this...

Only minutes after a Cook County judge signed the order Friday afternoon proclaiming him mayor--once again--of Prospect Heights, Edward Rotchford dispensed with the pomp that often attends the return to...