A Cook County sheriff’s deputy accidentally shot herself in the hip Wednesday in the restroom of the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center on the Near West Side. Chicago police said a female law enforcement officer accidentally discharged her weapon, striking her hip, about 8:25 a.m. in the 2200 block of West Ogden Avenue. Law enforcement sources said the woman was a…

An 18-year-old man was fatally shot Friday in south suburban Ford Heights.

A real ass was seen on I-90 near Arlington Heights Wednesday—prompting a Cook County sheriff’s deputy to pull over and take action.

Body-camera footage showing a donkey being rescued by the deputy was posted on the department’s Twitter account.

It was a somber Monday in Palos Heights as friends, family and fellow officers paid their final respects to a Cook County Sheriff’s Officer.

It was a somber Monday in Palos Heights as friends, family and fellow officers paid their final respects to a Cook County Sheriff’s Officer. Charlie Wojciechowski reports.

The Cook County Sheriff has a new search and rescue tool—a bloodhound named Lula Belle who’s already saving lives.

Lula Belle, a bloodhound, is the newest search and rescue tool for the Cook County Sheriff’s Department. NBC 5’s Lauren Petty met the precocious pooch. 

Despite comments recently made by an Illinois detective, experts and police have vowed that drug-sniffing dogs won’t be euthanized should Illinois legalize recreational pot use.

Body camera footage released Thursday shows officers reviving a man found unresponsive from a suspected heroin overdose in the bathroom of a Chicago-area courthouse, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s office.

Body camera footage released by the Cook County Sheriff’s office shows deputies reviving a man from a suspected heroin overdose at a Chicago-area courthouse on Wednesday. (Warning: Video may be disturbing to some viewers.)

A man accused of crashing a car into two Cook County sheriff’s squad cars late Tuesday on the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway has been charged with DUI.

Three people, including two Cook County sheriff’s police officers, were injured in a crash late Tuesday on the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway in northwest suburban Arlington Heights.

Three people, including two Cook County sheriff’s police officers, were injured in a crash late Tuesday on the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway in northwest suburban Arlington Heights. Susan Carlson reports.

Two people are charged with locking a disabled child in a bedroom with no lights after officers checking a suburban Chicago home found nine children living in “filth,” police said.

A man suffered minor knife injuries to his hand during a scuffle in a suburban Starbucks Sunday after one customer told the other to “stop being a jerk to the staff,” police said.

Authorities are investigating a bizarre armed robbery involving what appeared to be a pipe bomb left at a south suburban grocery store on Saturday.

Authorities are investigating a bizarre armed robbery involving what appeared to be a pipe bomb left at a south suburban grocery store.

The wife of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke, the man charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Laquan McDonald, said her recent job offer was pulled because of her husband’s high-profile case, but authorities say that isn’t the case.