by Grace Cronin | Aug 21, 2025 | Press Release
COOK COUNTY, IL – Legislation championed by Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart that creates new guidelines for missing persons investigations is now state law. SB 24, the Missing Persons Identification Act, sponsored by Sen. Michael Hastings in the Senate and Rep....
by Grace Cronin | Jul 1, 2025 | Press Release
COOK COUNTY, IL – The Cook County Sheriff’s Office successfully located a missing and endangered man following an aerial drone search of a heavily wooded section of Deer Park West Forest Preserve in Palatine today, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced. On...
by Mike Pierga | Sep 1, 2021 | Press Release
COOK COUNTY, IL – To prioritize long unsolved cases of missing people, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office has launched the Missing Persons Project, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced at a press conference today. The new project will provide resources dedicated...