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B.B. King's Live in Cook County Jail album features a live recording of a concert that he performed for the jail's inmates on September 10, 1970. A live album Concert: Friday the 13th - Cook County Jail featuring performances by jazz musicians Jimmy McGriff and Lucky Thompson was released on the Groove Merchant label in 1973)
The Cook County Sheriff's Police Department has over 500 state certified law enforcement officers charged with patrolling unincorporated areas of Cook County as well as assisting suburban police departments with police operations including, but not limited to, detective and crime scene investigator (CSI) services, narcotics interdiction, bomb detection and disposal, vice operations, street ...
At least 60 incarcerated people have died in Cook County Jail, the largest single-site jail in the U.S., since 2017, according to the jail’s data. For Cook County officials, these numbers ...
It shares the state's Lake Michigan shoreline with Lake County. Including its lake area, Cook County has a total area of 1,635 square miles (4,234.6 km 2), the largest county in Illinois, of which 945 square miles (2,447.5 km 2) is land and 690 square miles (1,787.1 km 2) (42.16%) is water. Land-use in Cook County is mostly urban and densely ...
CHICAGO — The family of an inmate brutalized inside Cook County Jail has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Sheriff’s Office.Attorneys representing the family of Johnny Hendrix, beaten ...
Classes are held at both the Cook County Jail and the Stateville Correctional Center, a maximum security men’s prison about 40 miles (64 kilometers) from Chicago. During book club, security ...
Simultaneously ex officio Cook County Coroner [5] Timothy Bradley 1870–1872 [8] Charles Kern: 1872–1878 Democratic [8] John Hoffman: 1878–1880 Republican [8] [9] Orrin L. Mann: 1880–1882 Republican: Elected in 1880 [10] Seth Hanchett: 1882–1886 Republican [11] [12] Canute R. Matson: 1886–1890 Republican [8] James H. Gilbert: 1890 ...
Michelle L. Laux was 31 when she was found beaten to death along a rural Clinton County road in 1993. One of the men convicted in her death, Robert Nail, was given an 80-year prison sentence that ...