More than 500 people were arrested for retail theft​ recently in a specifically targeted mission by more than 100 law ...

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke has directed prosecutors to seek prison sentences in every felony case involving machine gun-type weapons, according to a new policy ...

Backers of Cook County state’s attorney candidate Clayton Harris III are arguing his opponent’s “irresponsible and reckless lack of judgment” in prosecuting a young boy in 1… ...

In a blow to Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker and a reflection of divided allegiances, the Cook County Democratic Party failed ...

Following a hotly contested Democratic primary campaign for Cook County state’s attorney that took 10 days to resolve because it was so close, the general election race this fall to replace Kim Foxx ...

Eileen O’Neill Burke, then the Democratic nominee for Cook County State’s Attorney, speaks to reporters at the Chicago Journeymen Plumbers Local Union 130 headquarters in April.

At a court hearing Wednesday, the Cook County State’s Attorney Office dropped felony battery charges against Ald. Colby ...

At a union hall on Chicago’s South Side, a powerful Democratic Party organization decided who to endorse in the March 17 ...

When I am State's Attorney there will be no more coddling of violent criminals. For the past eight years, violent offenders have felt emboldened knowing Cook County has not been serious about ...

6 months ago, Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill, Burke promised a new approach to tackling violent crime. Key to that approach has been asking her prosecutors to seek pretrial detention ...

Democrat Eileen O’Neill Burke is projected to win her campaign for Cook County State’s Attorney over Republican Robert Fioretti and Libertarian Andrew Kopinski. O’Neill Burke received 65.7% ...