The county’s Restorative Justice Community Courts reroute young people with nonviolent charges from criminal courts to an alternative program. Upon completion, the charge is dismissed.

CHICAGO (WGN) — It’s been one year since Cook County got a new state’s attorney. Eileen O’Neill Burke says a lot has been done to improve the office, but much more work lies ahead, in her opinion. “We ...

CHICAGO — On Tuesday, Democrat Eileen O’Neill Burke claimed victory over Republican Bob Fioretti and Libertarian Andrew Charles Kopinksi in the race for Cook County’s next top prosecutor. As of 9 p.m.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Kim Foxx's chief spokesperson is the latest staffer leaving her office. The Cook County State's Attorney's Office confirmed Friday Director of External Affairs, Kiera Ellis, is no ...

The 2024 race for Cook County state’s attorney will soon have a new contender: a recently retired justice who stepped away from the bench to run for the top prosecutor’s spot. Eileen O’Neill Burke ...

The Cook County state’s attorney’s office is expanding citywide a program that allows Chicago police officers to directly file charges in some low-level felony gun cases, following a review of pilots ...

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke has been in office barely 10 months, and already critics are attacking her for her laudable efforts to recalibrate an office that had drifted away ...

The Cook County state's attorney on Tuesday publicly defended her office's handling of the case involving the suspect in the Blue Line attack that left a woman severely burned. Eileen O'Neill Burke ...

CHICAGO -- Two passionate groups gathered outside the county building Monday morning, opposed in their response to the dismissal of 16 felony charges against "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett. One group ...