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

The next round of Cook County property tax bills will be delayed by approximately two months, officials announced Tuesday.

The Cook County Board of Commissioners and the Justice Advisory Council joined together Wednesday on Chicago's South Side to ...

Cook County’s pilot guaranteed income program, which provided $500 per month to 3,250 low- and moderate-income residents, concluded its payment cycle at the start of 2025. The county is now preparing ...

Through June, Cook County has had 220 gun homicides, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. This is 24 more ...

Cook County is at the center of a national debate over how local governments should respond to deep, persistent economic insecurity, but whether it has locked in guaranteed income as a permanent ...

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 ...

While most efforts to combat domestic violence focus on victims, survivors and breakdowns in systems meant to protect them, one Cook County program is shifting the work to the abusers and breaking the ...

A $300 million no-interest county loan program will help local governments relying on tax revenue they won't get on time, but Chicago Public Schools don't qualify for the loans.

The second-largest county in the United States has established a permanent guaranteed basic income program after the success of a previous pilot version. The Cook County Board of Commissioners ...