Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 11, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National ...

Macomb County has been sending inmates to other county jails in recent weeks and soon will start farming out more of them to accommodate the renovation portion of the $229-million jail project.

A man claiming to be the governor of Illinois and demanding that the Leighton Criminal Courts Building be closed down Thursday got his wish when Cook ... notified the sheriff’s office that ...

Jelly Roll had made a routine of visiting jails as he toured, and earlier that day, he spent an hour and a half at the Chesterfield County Jail ... says Dr. Amy Cook, a professor of criminal ...

At the scene, deputies found the building fully ... degree criminal mischief. Cook was arraigned in Central Arraignment Part Court and was sent to the Tioga County jail with bail set at $50,000 ...

According to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, 30-year-old Dakota Petrey ... authorities found Ramirez’s cell phone in an apartment building in suburban Oak Forest, a building that Petrey ...

Cook County Sheriff's police said her body ... after he was released from the Fulton County Jail in Lewistown, where he had been in custody on unrelated charges since last October.

A Bureau County Board committee tabled consideration of an intergovernmental agreement to accept jail inmate transfers from ...