Cook County Sheriff’s Office

The thousands of people on electronic monitoring in Chicago area prohibited from having weapons or guns in their homes as they await trial. But through regular searches, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office says it keeps finding firearms. NBC 5 Investigates’ Phil Rogers reports.

The Cook County Sheriff’s Office says deputies have recovered more than 80 firearms so far this year while searching the homes of individuals who are on electronic monitoring.

The new post comes after a string of recent violence in the neighborhood, including earlier this month when a man was shot and robbed inside of his River North hotel room.

A new command post comes after a string of recent violence in the neighborhood, including earlier this month when a man was shot and robbed inside of his River North hotel room. Sandra Torres has more.

A new phone scam aimed at Chicago-area residents uses a caller acting like an employee of the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, using a number that looks like it’s from the Sheriff’s Office, officials warned Wednesday.

A former Cook County sheriff’s officer is accused of trafficking cocaine from Mexico into Illinois.

With a month left in the year, Cook County has logged more than 1,000 homicides for the first time in 27 years.

The suspect in an attack at a CTA Red Line stop was taken back into custody eight days after he was released by mistake, authorities say.

Chicago police were scrambling Wednesday to find an aggravated battery suspect who was already in custody, but released because his charging information apparently was never entered into the system.

Chicago police were scrambling Wednesday to find an aggravated battery suspect who was already in custody, but released because his charging information apparently was never entered into the system. NBC 5 Investigates’ Phil Rogers reports.

Illinois State Police will increase patrols on Chicago-area expressways beginning Friday night in response to a surge in freeway shootings. NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter reports.

Newly released video from a police shooting last month shows a tense, chaotic scene with officers yelling at each other to stay clear as they fired dozens of rounds at a suspect who allegedly was pointing a gun from a Jeep.

Chicagoland law enforcement and court officials continue to engage in a testy war of words over a bail reform plan which supporters say is finally addressing inequities in the judicial system, but critics say endangers the community.

So-called “serial stowaway” Marilyn Hartman, who claims to have hopped aboard dozens of flights and has confounded law enforcement in multiple cities, was arrested Tuesday afternoon at O’Hare airport.

Police are asking for help locating a missing team from unincorporated Thornton Township. 14-year old Amani Jackson was last seen leaving her home in the 15000 block of Chappel Avenue on March 3 around 2:45 p.m., according to police. Police say Jackson is described as 5’4” and about 145 lbs. with brown eyes, a light complexion and black, braided hair…

The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the death of missing 22-year-old Harvey woman, Vanessa Ceja-Ramirez, a homicide Thursday.

Authorities say a body has been found in the Midlothian Meadows nature preserve as the ongoing search for a 22-yer-old woman who was reported missing earlier this week continues.

The alleged getaway driver in a murder during a robbery and botched drug deal at a Norwood Park motel appeared to pass out in court in the middle of his bond hearing Thursday. “He fell straight back and hit his head,” a Cook County sheriff’s deputy said of Glen Humes, who was rushed to the hospital as prosecutors went...

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart was moving to temporarily strip as many as seven deputies of their police powers after the county’s public defender complained that deputies had apparently posted insulting and threatening comments online after a march in support of Black Lives Matter, his spokesman said Friday. Spokesman Matt Walberg said the investigation to identify the deputies and...