Juan Perez Jr.

Cook County health officials continued to reject the conclusions of an inspector general report that questioned their financial practices, while county commissioners raised a furor over the county's enormous public...

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle's blowout loss to Lori Lightfoot in the Chicago mayor's race this spring may not be her last campaign after all, despite her previous assertion...

Cook County's health care system faces an enormous and growing backlog of unpaid expenses that could become "too large to pay" without a massive infusion of new funding, according to...

Federal authorities have been investigating the circumstances surrounding the construction and recent sale of a West Pullman home to Ald. Carrie Austin by a developer in her ward, according to...

Homeowners and commercial property owners on Chicago's North Side and the city's central core could be hit with much steeper property taxes this year, according to calculations issued by the...

What has become a familiar scene of federal agents rifling through a Chicago alderman's office played out again Wednesday, this time on Chicago's Far South Side as the FBI raided...