A 27-year-old woman has been charged with promoting prostitution following an investigation by the Cook County Sheriff’s Police Vice Unit, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. On Aug. 25, a Sheriff's Police undercover officer responded to an advertisement in the...
Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Chicago today urged Governor Bruce Rauner and state lawmakers to fund critical advanced mental health training for Illinois law enforcement. As of July 1, the state ceased funding...
More than 100 non-violent, unjustly incarcerated Cook County Jail individuals in custody could now be eligible to fight their cases while living and working within the community as a result of groundbreaking legislation effective immediately. Senate Bill 202,...
COOK COUNTY, IL – An investigation conducted by the Cook County Sheriff’s Office has resulted in the arrest of a correctional officer, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. Oscar Taylor, 53, has been charged with three counts of unauthorized bringing of contraband...
Cook County Sheriff’s Police will conduct a roadside safety checkpoint Saturday (tomorrow) night through early Sunday morning in Bridgeview, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart said today. At the checkpoint officers will ensure drivers are complying with Illinois driver's license...
Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today that a 21-year-old man has been charged in armed robberies that occurred in unincorporated Elk Grove Village and Ford Heights and also may be connected to other similar robberies in Cook County. At approximately 6:45...
COOK COUNTY, IL – Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today that Cook County Jail’s urban farm has as new purchaser of its perennial flowers, Chicago-based florist Flowers for Dreams. Flowers for Dreams, which started in 2012, donates 25 percent of its profits to local...
Cook County Applications 81,862 Total Sheriff's Office Objections 5,743 Basis for Concealed Carry Objection Objection Count* Agg. Battery/Agg. Assault 815 Burglary/Theft/Robbery 276 Domestic Violence 2214 Drugs 304 False Personation of Police/Public Employee 40...
Cook County Sheriff’s Police will conduct a roadside safety checkpoint Saturday (tomorrow) night through early Sunday morning in Schaumburg, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart said today. At the checkpoint officers will ensure drivers are complying with Illinois driver's license...
A Sauk Village man who Sheriff’s Police found holding a child and a knife has been charged with stabbing another child, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. At approximately 4:10 p.m. on July 6, Sheriff’s Police officers responded for report of a man...