Tom Dart

Audit: State's FOID Program Broken, Puts Public 'At Risk'

Posted 05.04.2012

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Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart has lashed out against the state's firearm owners identification (FOID) program, which a recent audit found to have serio...

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Suburban Prison Could House Detained NATO Protesters

Posted 04.30.2012

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Individuals arrested while protesting the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago could be bound for the suburbs, as the city is short on other options in the...

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Does Preschool Help Prevent Crime?

The Huffington Post | Jen Sabella | Posted 04.30.2012

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A group of Illinois law enforcement leaders joined forces last week to speak out against cuts to state preschool funding, claiming cutting early educa...

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'This Is Just Not Right' 11 Bodies Found Stacked In Suburban Cemetery

Posted 04.15.2012

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A man made a disturbing discovery last week when he visited the grave a recently deceased loved one he had been told was buried at the south suburban ...

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Cook County Inmates Learning Chess

AP | By DON BABWIN | Posted 04.03.2012

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CHICAGO -- Call it the Sheriff's Gambit. A sheriff in Illinois is turning to kings, queens and rooks to help teach inmates at his jail not to behave ...

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Does Quinn's Budget Plan Go Far Enough?

Posted 02.22.2012

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Updated story Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has had a rough year. The state's credit rating was downgraded, he has been berated by Republican governo...

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Sheriff Says County Jail Is Largest Mental Health Provider In The State

Posted 02.22.2012

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Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says the county jail is so overwhelmed with people whose offenses are more attributable to mental health issues than crim...

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Police: Man In Custody In Indian Head Park Teen's Slaying

Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Kelli O'laughlin Murder, Indian Head Park Murder, Video, Kelli O'Laughlin Killed, Indian Head Park Burglary, Tom Dart, Kelli O'Laughlin, Chicago News

As hundreds gathered to mourn the death of 14-year-old Kelli O’Laughlin, police in suburban Indian Head Park were questioning a man suspected in her...

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Sheriff's Office Will Be Watching Sex Offenders On Halloween

Posted 12.31.2011

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The Cook County Sheriff's Office will be visiting the homes of registered sex offenders Monday, making sure they don't open their doors for trick-or-t...

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WATCH: Presumed Gacy Victim Found Alive

Posted 12.26.2011

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A former Aurora man thought to be one of eight unidentified victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy has been located, alive and well, in Florida afte...

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WATCH: Survivor Of John Wayne Gacy Attack Speaks Out

The Huffington Post/AP | Posted 12.18.2011

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Last week, the Cook County Sheriff's Department exhumed the bodies of eight John Wayne Gacy victims, hoping to identify them using modern science afte...

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Sheriff: Solid Leads In Effort To ID Gacy Victims

AP | By DON BABWIN | Posted 12.18.2011

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CHICAGO -- A sheriff whose office exhumed the skeletal remains of eight of serial killer John Wayne Gacy's never-identified victims said Monday that d...

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PHOTOS: Gacy Victims Exhumed, Sheriff Hopes To Identify Victims More Than 30 Years Later

AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 12.12.2011

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CHICAGO — More than 30 years after a collection of skeletal remains was found beneath John Wayne Gacy's house, detectives have secretly exhumed ...

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Cops' 'Free TV' Sting Operation Nabs More Than 100 Fugitives

Posted 12.04.2011

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Cook County Sheriff's police arrested more than 100 fugitives last month during a sting operation that lured wanted criminals to a county government w...

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Cook County Indigent Bodies To Be Donated To Science, Not Buried

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 12.03.2011

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A memo released late last month by Cook County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Nancy Jones reported that the bodies of individuals whose families cannot af...

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Illinois Rejects Federal Immigration Mandate, Again

Posted 11.10.2011

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When it comes to federal immigration compliance, Illinois lawmakers have been bold in their rejection of some Obama administration policies in recent ...

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WATCH: 'Prostitution: Leaving The Life' Tackles Problems Facing Cook County Sex Workers

The Huffington Post | Jen Sabella | Posted 10.18.2011

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For about 20,000 women in the Chicagoland area, prostitution is a way of life. Over the years, many of these women are arrested and locked up briefly,...

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Clout-Heavy Concessionaire Who Lost O'Hare Contract Sues City

Posted 10.05.2011

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Though the two-year-long battle over the lucrative O'Hare International Airport terminal concessions contract appeared to come to an end last week whe...

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Wanted: 1,000+ Deadbeat Parents

Posted 08.21.2011

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One day after Father's Day, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced Monday that his department's website would, within the next two weeks, post photogr...

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Disturbing Details Emerge In Slaying Of Pregnant Teen

Posted 06.29.2011

Read More: Cook County Sheriffs Police, Rosemary Newman, Tom Dart, Shante Thomas, Deandre Minkens, Chicago Crime, Calumet City, Chicago News

A south suburban couple has been charged in the murder of a pregnant teen who was found strangled in a Cook County Forest Preserve near Calumet City j...

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More Dumped Bodies Found At Burr Oak Cemetery

The Huffington Post | Jen Sabella | Posted 05.25.2011

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In 2009, a massive grave desecration scandal was uncovered at Burr Oak Cemetery in suburban Alsip. Graves were dug up, double-stacked and destroyed. T...

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Cook County Sheriff Calls Mass Baby Burials 'Disturbing'

The Huffington Post | Jen Sabella | Posted 05.25.2011

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While it certainly doesn't sound legal to have 26 babies buried together in a wooden box along with unidentified limbs and bones, the practice is actu...

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Tom Dart Talks Mayoral Race, Family, Blago

Chicago Magazine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Soon after Rich Daley announced in September that he would not seek another term, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart jumped in the mayor's race. Though he n...

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Toni Preckwinkle In Power Struggle With Tom Dart Over Budget

Posted 05.25.2011

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Two of Cook County's up-and-coming reform-minded leaders are set to square off in a battle for budget dollars. Tom Dart, the Cook County Sheriff, is ...

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Tom Dart Helped Lobbyist Brother By Dropping Out Of Mayor's Race

Chicago Sun-Times | Coolest Gadgets | Posted 05.25.2011

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When Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart dropped out of the race to succeed Mayor Daley, he made clear he was motivated by family reasons. He has five you...

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