Since 2022, Cook County has erased more than $1 billion in medical debt for more than 791,000 residents. Eligible debt is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The family of Jermaine Richards has filed a lawsuit against the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office and the county itself, ...

Dozens of decomposing bodies were removed from a Southeast Side funeral home Friday morning after they were discovered Thursday evening. The Cook County Medical Examiner is trying to identify the ...

COOK COUNTY, IL — Preliminary statistics for cases handled in 2025 by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office show a substantial decline in homicides and opioid overdose deaths over 2024. While the ...

The data from the Cook County Medical Debt Relief Initiative revealed that a significant number of people whose debts were forgiven through the program made less than 200% of the federal poverty level ...

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COOK COUNTY, lll. — Cook County health officials are alerting residents of a jump in flu activity in the Chicago suburbs. According to a statement from the Cook County Department of Public Health data ...

Two major Chicago public institutions — Cook County Health and the University of Illinois College of Medicine — are expanding their partnership to provide care to patients, more training for medical ...

Cook County and the state of Illinois erased upwards of $1.5 billion in medical debt for over 770,000 Cook County residents through the Illinois Medical Debt Relief Program, leaving many county ...