CHICAGO (WLS) -- A visitor to the Cook County Jail was left feeling like a prisoner after he was trapped for 32 hours. The visitor was processed in to the maximum security unit of the jail Saturday ...

Volunteers offer help to those released from the jail; from water to transportation. It’s a challenge when discharges happen after midnight. When people are released from Cook County Jail, they don’t ...

The family of a man who died in Cook County Jail over the weekend gathered outside the criminal courthouse Monday morning to call for clarity on the circumstances of his death. Shamire Jackson, 35, ...

"Our lives are not defined by the errors we make," Cardinal Blase Cupich said. He and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition offered Christian religious services Thursday, spreading messages of positivity at the ...