Down staters are leaving Chicago to make their own state, that’s the idea behind a nonprofit organization called New Illinois ...

A driver was killed and others were injured in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 290 in suburban Cook County early Sunday ...

Nearly 33,000 Illinoisans without legal status — including 22,000 in Cook County — could be left without health care if ...

Following a Tribune-Illinois Answers Project report, Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi’s office is fixing hundreds of ...

The state agency responsible for keeping Illinois’ most vulnerable children safe has failed to produce legally required public reports after examining what went wrong in hundreds of cases of child ...

Cook County must face an assistant public defender’s claim that it violated her free-speech rights by barring her display of a photograph of her standing with a gun in front of the Israeli flag.

Illinois companies announced 1,666 mass layoffs in February, with more than 4-in-5 impacting workers in Cook County.

Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi fixed 491 of at least 620 properties that were misclassified or undervalued during the 2023 ...