Arriving detainees wait in a holding cell in an underground tunnel at Cook County Jail in Chicago on April 16, 2025. The tunnels run underground to the Leighton Criminal Court Building.

Teamsters Local 700, which represents Cook County Jail correctional officers ... "The supervisor could have simply left the building that they were in from the comforts of their own office ...

Data obtained by Illinois Answers Project shows Cook County Jail used restraint chairs nearly 900 times in five years. That's more than at any other jail in the state. But it's also a lower rate ...

A pair of Cook County Jail detainees are alleging sheriff’s deputies encouraged a third inmate to tie them up and sexually ...

depicting a sick person huddled on the asphalt while a nearby building burns. One of the largest COVID-19 outbreaks in the country occurred here in the Cook County Jail, with around 800 cases.

A Cook County Jail guard is continuing to recover after he was brutally attacked by a murder suspect last March. Now, a ...

Reed said the county's jail only holds between 10 to 15 inmates ... This means staff are constantly rotating inmates to use ...