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Defendants acquitted of crimes in Cook County don't walk out of the courtroom. They have to go back into the jail. The practice goes back decades.

As the population at Cook County Jail approaches capacity, both say judges should make more use of electronic monitoring.

Some regulations on cemeteries in Illinois will soon be scaled back. On Monday, Gov.

Dozens of families have approached Cook County officials to help identify victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy.Gacy killed 33 young men in the 1970s and buried them under his house near the Northwest side of Chicago.

Cook County commissioners are scheduled to vote Wednesday to expand a law that targets low-level marijuana offenders.

A new online database lets people to see who has outstanding warrants in Cook County.Sheriff Tom Dart said there are about 44,000 people in Cook County who have outstanding warrants. The new online database, he hopes, will help the office get some tips on the whereabouts of those people."

Attorneys for the company overseeing Burr Oak Cemetery say conditions at the cemetery are not as bad as they're being portrayed.Earlier this week, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said a new report from an archaeological group showed more human remains had been found at a portion of the cemetery thought