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The superintendent of one of the country’s largest juvenile jails is resigning Dec. 1 after a decade-long tenure marked by controversy.

After the fire was put out, Martinez Duncan, 24, was removed from the cell and brought to a holding area where he became ...

A 24-year-old man being held in Cook County Jail died Thursday evening after a fire broke out in his cell inside the facility ...

More than 900 people have now come forward charging they were sexually abused at state-operated Illinois youth centers and the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center. Attorneys on Wednesday ...

Leonard Dixon, who’s run Cook County’s temporary juvenile detention facility for the past decade, told a reporter outside a Cook County board meeting after declining interview requests that he lives ...

The Cook County Sheriff’s Office announced that Martinez Duncan died after a fire broke out in the jail’s residential ...

While college students were just getting started on their semester studies this fall, five young men were celebrating the ...

The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved large investments in policing and prosecutions, over objections from advocates.

The teenager accused of shooting and killing a 7-year-old boy will be transferred to a Cook County jail on his 18th birthday.