The Cook County State's Attorney's Office announced a new pilot program designed to provide an alternative to juvenile detention offering school engagement, cognitive behavioral therapy and wraparound ...

More than 900 people have now come forward charging they were sexually abused at state-operated Illinois youth centers and the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center. Attorneys on Wednesday ...

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Leonard Dixon, who’s run Cook County’s temporary juvenile detention facility for the past decade, told a reporter outside a Cook County board meeting after declining interview requests that he lives ...