CHICAGO — An elected Cook County official, one of three commissioners on its Board of Review, was arrested and charged with ...

Another group of Illinois counties has voted to explore whether they should secede from the state, citing significant ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Attorneys in the offices of Attorney General Kwame Raoul and Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx made ...

The nonbinding advisory referendums, which include Madison County, are seen by advocates as a way to quantify discontent with ...

was creating subcircuit judicial districts that allowed Black lawyers to run for judgeships on the city’s South and West sides and the southern Cook County suburbs. Mr. Beavers was instrumental ...

And most of the cases were detected in the southern and western parts of Cook County, he added. “That’s what’s very, very alarming here,” he said. “The key is awareness. The key is ...

Continuing a recent trend, a group of Illinois counties will cast votes on whether or not they should seek to form a state separate from Chicago and Cook County.

Cook County’s brief, for example ... McGlynn, who is presiding over the case in the Southern District of Illinois, issued a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the Protect Illinois ...