With the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) set to begin enforcing a new $45 penalty on February 1 for domestic air ...

At 17 years old, Melissa Loch has never cast a ballot. It’s something the politically minded Arlington Heights student is ...

Some 150 students from two dozen high schools across Cook County aren’t just learning about elections in their civics classes ...

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The Cook County Clerk’s Office and Chicago Bears this week launched Defenders of DA’Mocracy, a program to train 150 high ...

The couple issued Cook County’s first marriage license of 2026 were married Friday morning at the Cook County Clerk’s Office, ...

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Melissa Nunez and Elizabeth Branske became the first couple married by the Cook County Clerk in 2026 Friday morning.

In a historic decision, a federal judge Thursday ended the half-century-old anti-patronage case launched to fight the stubborn and unfair use of politics to decide most hiring, firing, and promotion ...

The Humboldt Park couple won the annual lottery to become the first married couple of the new year. County Clerk Monica ...

Cook County Clerk Monica Gordon said her office is reinforcing its diversity, equity and inclusion measures amid “threatening rhetoric and cruel policies” from the federal government that are creating ...