Cook County Sheriff’s Office

Inmate releases have begun at Cook County Jail as officials look to slow down the spread of the coronavirus. NBC 5’s Christian Farr has the story.

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...

A Cook County sheriff’s deputy has died from complications due to COVID-19, the sheriff’s office said in a statement Sunday. Deputy Richard O’Brien was a 25-year veteran of the sheriff’s office and had been working on assignment in the Civil Process Division in Skokie despite being diagnosed with leukemia in January. “Our hearts are broken over the loss of...

Officials with the Cook County Sheriff’s Department have reported that a third inmate has tested positive for coronavirus, and a second correctional officer has also tested positive. According to a press release Tuesday, a 47-year-old detainee is being hospitalized after testing positive for the virus. The man has been in custody since Oct. 2018, according to the sheriff’s department....

Two Cook County detainees have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart’s office announced Monday. According to a press release, the detainees tested positive on Monday for the virus, and are currently being held in isolation cells at Cermak Health Services. Both detainees have been housed there since experiencing flu-like symptoms on March 20. One of…

The Blue Island Police Department was shut down, four Chicago police officers now have coronavirus, and a Cook County corrections officer has the virus. NBC 5’s Christian Farr has the latest on how law enforcement agencies are dealing with the virus.

A detainee beaten to death last weekend at Cook County Jail suffered injuries so severe, they were similar to those of a person who had been involved in a car crash, Cook County prosecutors said in court Thursday. Pedro Ruiz, 19, was found by correctional officers unresponsive in his cell early Feb. 1 in a maximum security division of Cook…

A 19-year-old man being held at Cook County Jail on an attempted murder charge was found dead in his cell early Saturday with apparent head trauma, according to the Cook County sheriff’s office. At 1:53 a.m., correctional officers found Pedro Ruiz unresponsive in his cell and immediately “began lifesaving measures,” according to a statement from the sheriff’s office. He...

A man is facing a series of felony weapon and drug charges after a nearly seven-hour standoff with police last week in Portage Park on the Northwest Side.

A white former Chicago police officer convicted of second-degree murder last year in the 2014 death of black teenager Laquan McDonald, who was shot 16 times, is no longer in a federal prison in New York.

A Chicago woman, who along with her mother were charged with killing pregnant Chicago teen Marlen Ochoa-Lopez and cutting her unborn baby from her womb, gave birth to a baby in early November, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office.

Criminal charges have been filed against a man accused of hitting a Chicago police officer with a car Friday while fleeing a traffic stop in Fernwood on the Far South Side.

Chicago Police Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says Jason Van Dyke formally resigned last week.

Chicago Police Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says Jason Van Dyke formally resigned last week.

Chicago Police Department Supt. Eddie Johnson addressed his involvement with the Laquan McDonald case Saturday morning after facing some criticism since officials released the footage to the public.

The owner of a Northborok massage parlor is accused of operating a prostitution business out of the parlor in the north suburb.