Patricia Martin, former presiding judge of the juvenile court's child protection division, bilked a decorated WWII vet out of ...

Former Cook County Judge Patricia Martin on Friday was sentenced to four years probation after she admitted to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the bank accounts of an elderly former ...

Fourteen graduates got their records expunged for completing the (W)RAP program, which offers non-violent offenders treatment and support as an alternative to incarceration.

Days after new Cook County Chief Judge Charles Beach ordered an urgent review of the county's electronic monitoring program, ...

Seven men are facing felony charges after authorities said they used a corridor in the South Loop to peddle drugs. Cook ...

Timothy Shane, 52, escaped from Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta on Dec. 1 while in deputy custody, the Rockdale County ...

Timothy Shane walked out of Grady Memorial Hospital early Monday and was apprehended Wednesday morning in Newton County.

While college students were just getting started on their semester studies this fall, five young men were celebrating the successful completion of a DePaul University statistics class held at Cook ...

Investigators say a con man posed as a funeral director and ripped off a woman grieving over the death of her husband. Marjorie Taylor Greene announces resignation after feud with Trump Nicklaus ...

The Cook County Jail has its own garden for inmates to grow their own food. Now they are going one step further in their efforts to be sustainable. WGN's Patrick Elwood reports. Donald Trump’s White ...