The Lake County Jail will begin using a digital mail delivery system next month in an effort to improve safety and reduce the ...

San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus, who used tax funds to buy ice cream machines and a $74,000 conference room table, ...

Lavette Mayes had already spent 425 days locked up in the Cook County jail when she found herself in front of a judge in 2016. The Chicago Community Bond Fund had just helped her buy her freedom ...

(The Center Square) – An Illinois county is moving forward with plans to expand a taxpayer-funded guaranteed income program for residents. Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced ...

The sheriff launched the electronic monitoring program in 1989 to reduce overcrowding in the Cook County Jail. It was intended to monitor “low-level, nonviolent offenders” and ensure they ...

Cook County's guaranteed income program helped recipients feel more financially stable and less stressed, according to a survey. The county's two-year program sent $500 checks with no strings ...

Cook County’s 2025 budget includes $6.3 million in funding for the Adult Probation Department but Evans’ office told commissioners it will need closer to $10 million to make the necessary ...

(WLS) -- The man charged with stealing a police squad car and a U.S. Postal Service truck, leading to a crash in the south suburbs last month, was found dead at the Cook County Jail on Sunday ...

A sitting Dauphin County commissioner is calling on his fellow officeholder to step down. On Tuesday, commission Chair Justin Douglas issued a statement asking long-time Commissioner George Hartwick ...

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — An electric bicyclist in Lancaster County has been hospitalized after suffering a broken leg in a crash, according to Lancaster City Police. Police said the crash ...

Last year, Multnomah County Commissioner Julia Brim-Edwards floated a proposal to temper the power of the board’s chair and bring reforms to how the county commission does business. With three ...

Annette is the owner of Scruffy Dog Vintage Emporium. Will you share with us how the Scruffy Dog Vintage Emporium concept in Grand Marais came to be? My dad was a huge collector of antiques. Early on ...