Steve Schmadeke

A veteran police officer accused of arresting the wrong man in a West Side drug deal and then lying about it in court blamed mistaken identity while fighting for his...

A judge on Thursday ordered an inmate whose medical treatment has cost Cook County taxpayers more than $1 million released to a secure residential treatment facility to receive much-needed mental...

The Cook County state's attorney's office has decided not to prosecute a man who fought to clear his name after serving more than 27 years in prison for the 1980...

A 22-year-old prosecutors allege is a prostitute was ordered released by a Cook County judge on felony charges stemming from an attack on a South Side alderman early Sunday morning....

A veteran Cook County Jail guard who cold-cocked an inmate in an attack caught on video was spared prison Monday by a judge who called it "an act of indiscretion."...