Steve Schmadeke

After an unorthodox judicial campaign in which he loaned himself an unprecedented $660,000 and ran unopposed in a race on Chicago's Northwest Side, Richard C. Cooke has continued to make...

A civic-minded judge whose inspiring rags-to-riches story helped her become the first Filipina elected to the Cook County bench was indicted Wednesday on mortgage fraud charges. Judge Jessica A. O'Brien,...

While authorities haven't yet said what led to the fatal shooting of a Cook County judge outside his home Monday, the violence is a grim reminder of the work-related threats...

A freshman on the University of Illinois at Chicago's swim team secretly recorded videos of four members of the women's swim and dive teams with his iPhone as they changed...

Alerted by her 3-year-old son's screams of pain, the pregnant mother found her boyfriend repeatedly punching the boy in the child's South Side bedroom last Halloween, according to Cook County...