Cassandra Greer-Lee lost her husband, Nickolas Lee, to COVID-19 in April 2020 while he was incarcerated in Chicago’s Cook County Jail, the largest single-site jail in the U.S. Lee was just the third ...

Early in the morning outside Cook County Jail, a group of new detainees stepped out of a Chicago police wagon and walked bleary-eyed into the bright sunlight before lining up inside against a brick ...

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Since 2014, when he was installed as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Blase Cupich has celebrated Christmas Mass for individuals in custody at Cook County Jail — except in 2020 because ...

Annette Roberts read a page from a children’s book, then carefully turned it toward a laptop camera to show its pictures. “My mama, she’s been sick since I was very small,” Roberts read from “See You ...

CHICAGO (AP) — For college senior Nana Ampofo, an unconventional book club inside one of the nation’s largest jails has transformed her career ambitions. Each week, the 22-year-old drives a van of her ...

It's a scene that happens every weekday at the Cook County Jail: a bus transports a group of inmates, all handcuffed, to court in the Chicago suburbs. Most of those trips are uneventful; detainees are ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Jussie Smollett was released from Cook County Jail Wednesday after an appeals court that agreed with his lawyers that he should be released pending the appeal of his conviction for ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Despite the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly is not ordering the mass release of detainees from the Cook County Jail. According to a ruling issued ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --With 38 inmates at Cook County Jail who have now tested positive for COVID-19, sheriff's officials are working to "single-cell" virtually every detainee, in an effort to prevent a ...

A man detained at Cook County Jail died after he was found unresponsive in his bed Friday morning. Jail workers found Melvin Turner, 35, in his bed just before 9 a.m., and health care staffers began ...