by Mike Pierga | Dec 1, 2016 | Press Release
271 students representing 33 different high schools will receive the Cook County Sheriff’s Youth Service Medal of Honor tonight for volunteering more than 100 hours to the betterment of their community in the last year, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart said today. In addition...
by Mike Pierga | Nov 23, 2016 | Press Release
The Office of Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart and the Housing Authority of Cook County joined together this week to provide free turkeys to Housing Authority residents, just in time for Thanksgiving. The agencies provided 500 families on Monday afternoon. The...
by Mike Pierga | Nov 17, 2016 | Press Release
Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today that a Harvey man has been charged with possessing dogfighting equipment following a Sheriff’s Police investigation. Earlier this year, Cook County Sheriff’s Police investigators received information that 59-year-old...
by Mike Pierga | Nov 15, 2016 | Press Release
Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart called today for an end to a dangerous and unjust bail system that allows violent people to pay their way to freedom while locking up the indigent and mentally ill simply because they don’t have cash. “With violent crime...
by Mike Pierga | Nov 4, 2016 | Press Release
The number of individuals in custody at the Cook County Jail has dipped to 7,999, thanks in part to high numbers of accused offenders being sent home on electronic monitoring, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. That is the first time the Cook County Jail’s daily...
