Those who advocate for the restorative justice model say reducing the types of cases that are referred would cut back on the ...

Good afternoon, Chicago. In the first major union drive to reach the office in decades, a group of assistant state’s ...

In the first major union drive to reach the office in decades, a group of assistant state’s attorneys have asked the office to voluntarily recognize a bargaining unit that would represent hundreds of ...

Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke is making good on one of her signature campaign promises to crack down on illegally modified firearms. Burke announced Thursday that her ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Citing a surge in the number of firearms being illegally converted into machine guns, Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke has ordered prosecutors to seek a prison ...

New details emerged in court Tuesday about a crash that killed an off-duty Glenview police officer as he was driving to work Sunday morning.

They want to keep the bad guys in jail,” said Laura Leahy, assistant general counsel for Teamsters Local 700 and a former Cook County prosecutor. “Essentially they go to work every day and ...

A majority of Cook County assistant state’s attorneys ... according to a letter sent to State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke. Representatives declined to say what percentage of attorneys ...