Steve Schmadeke

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and commissioners came up with a way to restore some jobs in offices of chief judge and sheriff before budget vote on Tuesday.

Preckwinkle agrees to fewer Cook County job cuts; hundreds of layoffs still in works

May 31, 2019 at 9:11 p.m.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle agreed Monday to scale back some of the hundreds of layoffs she proposed, a change that was being negotiated just a day before the...

Drew Peterson arrives for court in Joliet on May 8, 2009.

Drew Peterson asks Illinois Supreme Court to reconsider murder conviction

May 23, 2019 at 5:09 a.m.

Attorneys for disgraced former Bolingbrook police officer Drew Peterson asked the Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday to reconsider its decision to uphold his conviction for the drowning murder of his...

Former President Barack Obama arrives for jury duty at the Daley Center on Nov. 8, 2017, in Chicago.

Obama does the unthinkable at Daley Center: Makes jury duty a thrill

May 23, 2019 at 5:08 a.m.

He won two presidential elections and a Nobel Peace Prize, but on Wednesday the former leader of the free world performed the unthinkable — he made Cook County jury duty...

Judges sleeping through evidence not cause for new trial, Illinois appeals court says

May 23, 2019 at 5:07 a.m.

If a judge falls asleep during a murder trial, should the defendant automatically get a new trial? A divided Illinois Appellate Court panel recently said no; so long as the...

A poster with images of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, bare-chested and on horseback, is posted on a bus shelter across the river from the Trump Tower in Chicago during a rally to protest the Trump-Pence administration Nov. 4, 2017.

Trump protesters march in Loop: ‘What is happening now is so horrible’

May 23, 2019 at 5:08 a.m.

More than 100 protesters marched in a light rain through Chicago's Loop to Trump Tower on Saturday, part of demonstrations in more than a dozen cities scheduled nearly a year...

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart speaks during a press conference at the Cook County Department of Corrections Division 11 on Nov. 15, 2016.

Sheriff Dart asks judge not to award back pay to fired officers

May 23, 2019 at 5:07 a.m.

Hoping to limit the fallout from a recent court ruling that could force Sheriff Tom Dart to shell out millions of dollars in back pay to fired officers, his attorneys...

Leak and Sons Funeral Home in the Chatham neighborhood.

South Side funeral home sued after body buried before service

May 23, 2019 at 5:07 a.m.

The family of a 74-year-old woman sued a South Side funeral home Tuesday after it allegedly presented the grieving family with two wrong bodies before realizing workers had buried the...

Former President Barack Obama "made it crystal-clear to me through his representative that he would carry out his public duty" and report for jury service, Cook County's chief judge said.

Former President Obama called to jury duty in Cook County and plans to serve

May 23, 2019 at 5:06 a.m.

Former President Barack Obama has been called for Cook County jury duty — and plans to serve next month, the county’s chief judge said Friday. Chief Judge Tim Evans told...

Cook County Public Defender Amy Campanelli, left, and State’s Attorney Kim Foxx warn that their offices could be affected by steep budget cuts after the pop tax was rolled back.

Public defender, state’s attorney raise alarm about steep Cook County budget cuts

May 23, 2019 at 5:05 a.m.

The Cook County's public defender, whose office represents low-income defendants, warned Monday that she would stop accepting some new criminal cases if a new round of proposed countywide budget cuts...

Parents sue Chicago day care center, alleging children were abused

May 23, 2019 at 5:04 a.m.

The parents of a 3-year-old boy allegedly assaulted by his preschool teacher are suing the Chicago branch of the local day care chain, alleging a pattern of abuse condoned by...

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