Good morning, Chicago. In 2025, Cook County began the year with a new state’s attorney and ended it with a new chief judge, ushering in another era for one of the largest court systems in the country.

The National Weather Service has issued an Extreme Heat Watch for Cook County starting Saturday morning and lasting into next week for an early-summer heat wave building in our area. Chicago can ...

Cook County is predicting a $211.4 million budget shortfall for 2026, a relatively modest gap that officials said was more of an estimate than usual thanks to extraordinary uncertainty coming out of ...

The Chicago area is preparing for its first significant heat wave of the season, with officials in Cook County issuing an extreme heat watch ahead of dangerously high temperatures expected this ...

Election day is Tuesday, Mar. 17, but early voting in Evanston and across suburban Cook County will begin on Mar. 2 and will ...

Rachel Dubose had just bought a house and started a new full-time job at the Housing Authority of Cook County as a housing specialist, helping low-income county residents obtain and maintain their ...

UPDATE: Upon further investigation, the Chicago Department of Public Health has determined that the Chicago Public Library Independence Branch is no longer considered a measles exposure location, as ...

Chicago was under a flood watch Thursday night in anticipation of thunderstorms expected to move through the city, according to the National Weather Service. The flood watch, expected to expire Friday ...