Johnson will attend the March 5 hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. He and three other big-city mayors, all Democrats, had been asked to appear because they preside over so ...

A 911 call for a domestic dispute ended last month with Chicago police officers repeatedly shooting and killing 58-year-old ...

Sheila Murphy was a Cook County public defender, a private criminal defense attorney and Cook County’s first female presiding judge.

First of two parts looking at efforts to help veterans who wind up in the Cook County court system Navy veteran Greg Sanchez ...

Community members claim officers could have used non-lethal action, since Timothy Glaze was having a mental health crisis.

WGN News was given a bird's eye view of what happened inside a Little Village apartment complex in January that left one ...