Reviewing her first year in office, State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke defends the increased requests for detention and pushed back at the Trump administration’s repeated assertions that Chicago is ...

We're going to protest her, because she has to go,” Chicago organizer Jasmine Smith said about Cook County State’s Attorney ...

In April, the electronic monitoring program shifted from Sheriff Tom Dart’s jurisdiction to the Cook County Chief Judge’s ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The shooting death of Laquan McDonald was a main issue of discussion at a forum Thursday for the three women battling for the Democratic nomination for Cook County State's Attorney.

Kim Foxx, the Illinois State’s Attorney for Cook County, said last week that her office will begin the expungement of misdemeanor cannabis convictions in the coming months. In an interview with the ...

Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke reflected Tuesday on 1 year in office and defended the handling of the CTA ...

Changes are coming to the Cook County court system’s troubled electronic monitoring program. State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill ...

During a budget hearing last month, State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke did not mince words when describing her office’s means to stay on top of rapidly developing forensic science and its impact on ...

CHICAGO -- In a classic Chicago-way document dump, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx released thousands of pages of Jussie Smollett records after 5 p.m. Friday. The records were turned over under ...

Charles Beach was sworn in on Monday as Cook County's first new chief judge in 24 years, and takes over amid a political firestorm over what appears to be systemic issues with how accused criminals ...

The Cook County state's attorney on Tuesday publicly defended her office's handling of the case involving the suspect in the Blue Line attack that left a woman severely burned.