The Latest Breaking News from Cook County

In an SEC filing, Cook County named Evolent Health Inc (NYSE:EVH) the sole third-party administrator for CountyCare Health Plan from fiscal 2023 through fiscal 2025. Piper Sandler analyst Jessica Tassan notes that the award extends a contract Evolent has held since fiscal 2018 to provide administrative simplification services to support CountyCare's 425,000 Medicaid…

The Cook County state’s attorney also said she will have much to say about Jussie Smollett after the actor is sentenced on Thursday.

CHICAGO — The alleged hoax attack on actor Jussie Smollett may not have been caught on camera, but his upcoming sentencing in a Cook County courtroom will be.

In a lawsuit in Cook County, Sandra Diaz alleges her landlord wrongfully pushed her out of her Avondale apartment during the coronavirus pandemic and refused to return her security deposit.

An "ongoing dispute" between neighbors turned deadly late last year after a man fatally shot a woman in the South Shore apartment complex’s stairwell, Cook County prosecutors said.

And ShawnTe Raines-Welch isn’t the only clout candidate running in the suburban judicial district, which also includes relatives of lobbyist Al Ronan and Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough.

CHICAGO — After a four-day trial centered largely on Marcus Floyd’s claims that he could not remember the night Officer Thomas Wortham was killed, a Cook County jury found Thursday that he was, in fact, fit to stand trial for the slaying in 2015.

A winter storm warning has been issued from 3 a.m. until 9 p.m. Thursday for southern Cook County as well as Grundy, Kankakee, Kendall, La Salle, Livingston and Will counties in Illinois and Lake and Porter counties in Indiana.

CHICAGO — Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx was elected in 2016 as a reform candidate, knocking out incumbent Anita Alvarez after harshly criticizing the way she handled charges in 17-year-old Laquan McDonald’s fatal shooting by on-duty Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke.