Cook County’s 911 mental health program gives officers tablets that connect a person in crisis via video to a mental health ...

WGN Investigates analyzed Chicago's city data portal independently.

A surge in Cook County Sheriff's Police patrols on Chicago Transit Authority trains is producing hundreds of arrests and ...

On Tuesday afternoon, five Cook County sheriff's police officers and a social service worker set off to patrol the West Side ...

The Cook County Sheriff's Office has been a part of Illinois' enhanced CTA security plan and state-led task force dedicated ...

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, whose police officers have been deployed on the CTA for several months, said Wednesday that a dedicated police force should be responsible for law enforcement on public ...

Since March, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart has placed teams of officers — 50 per day, working 12-hour shifts — on the Green and Red lines.

Sheriff Tom Dart is personally leading a transit task force, required by the newly enacted sweeping transit law, that will decide early next year whether to recommend creating a unified police force ...

The Cook County jail’s shuttered Division IV dormitory buildling, 2717 S. Sacramento, is slated for demolition in 2026. The county projects spending more than $1 billion on capital projects at the ...

People who fail to pay court-ordered support to their children or former spouses can land in jail. Expanding access to lawyers for parents at the start of divorce cases could mean fewer problems in ...