Monday is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday commemorating the Civil Rights leader.

Tim Jones, the Park Forest police officer who was shot in 2016 and died in December, was awarded the MLK Lifetime Achievement ...

U.S. Rep. Steve Womack announced the death of his wife following a brief illness.

Elizabeth I of England was an avid deer hunter, and the father of Michael and Janet Jackson was from Fountain Hill, Ark. Just a couple of facts to feed the imagination. A little repast for the ...

Terri Lynn Williams Womack, the wife of U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, R-Rogers, died Sunday (Jan. 19) at Circle of Life Hospice in ...

A jury on Wednesday found a man guilty of murdering a Cook County judge, following a seven-day trial during which prosecutors said the assailants watched the judge and his girlfriend for days ...

A Cook County judge just rewired a big piece of Chicago’s police-oversight machinery, ruling Wednesday that Illinois law does allow the Civilian Office of Police Accountability to investigate fatal ...

LOMBARD, Ill., Jan. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 800 court service deputies in Cook County, Ill., have voted to join Teamsters Local 700. The unit spans the entirety of Cook County and includes ...

With less than two weeks remaining for candidates to file for the May primary, there are three contested races in the ...

Half of Cooke County's public offices will be on the March 3 ballot. Candidates for county judge are Karla Metzler and Fred ...