For the Evanston Environment Board, it's not easy being green.
At its monthly meeting Thursday night, the board spent two hours discussing the complex details of waste collection contracts, recycling...
As the Cook County Department of Corrections nears 100 percent capacity, county officials are trying to raise public awareness of the issue and its potential consequences.
The high jail population is...
A partnership between Cook County and Comcast has allowed thousands of low-income families across the county to receive cheap Internet access, but the program remains underutilized in Evanston.
With...
A new cigarette tax that went into effect Friday added a permanent $1 tax per pack of cigarettes sold in Cook County.
The tax is expected to garner $25.6 million in the 2013 fiscal year, all of which...
Cook County Board president Toni Preckwinkle and John Norquist, president and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism, will speak at a symposium hosted by Northwestern’s School of Law later this...
