A substitute teacher at La Grange Highlands Elementary School has been charged with predatory criminal sexual assault of a child and aggravated criminal sexual abuse, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. On Jan. 25 Cook County Sheriff’s Police responded...
Three living units at the Cook County Jail are under isolation and a fourth is under heightened surveillance after individual in custody there began showing flu-like symptoms, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. Individuals in custody in the following...
Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Chicago today denounced the shameful inaction of Gov. Rauner as Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (LSSI) was forced to lay off 750 employees and shut down 30 social service...
The Illinois Department of Children & Family Services is joining forces with the Cook County Sheriff’s Office in a landmark mission to locate and save runaway state wards, who are particularly vulnerable to crime and trafficking. As part of a two-year pilot...
A 26-year-old man has been charged with involuntary sexual servitude of a minor after the Cook County Sheriff’s Vice Unit arrested him during an undercover operation, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart said today. James R. Taylor, of Broadview, was arrested Jan. 8 in the western...
Update: Thursday, December 31, 2015 - William Anderson was located this afternoon by Morton Grove Police at a motel in the 9100 block of Waukegan Road. He appeared to be in good condition. He was taken to an area hospital for an evaluation. Sheriff Dart would like...
In March 2015, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced a campaign to take on the system that actively facilitates the unjust incarceration of the mentally ill and poor in Cook County. He implored the public and criminal justice stakeholders to imagine the reality...
A Cook County Sheriff’s Police investigation has led to the arrest of two men in the murder of a man found shot to death on the western edge of the Kickapoo Meadows, a Cook County Forest Preserve near Harvey, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. At approximately 2...
An off-duty Cook County Sheriff’s correctional officer came to the aid of an injured pedestrian in Skokie last week. At approximately 5:35 p.m. on Dec. 9, Officer Wade Wicker, who works in DOC, was alerted to a pedestrian who had been struck by a vehicle in the 5400...
A 20-year-old man has been arrested for an armed robbery in Ford Heights, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. According to the Sheriff’s Police investigation on Dec. 5, a man approached the 22-year-old victim as he exited his vehicle in the 1500 block...