Annie Sweeney

A gym at Division 16, the Cook County Jail's isolation and quarantine facility for detainees who have tested positive for COVID-19.

Officials see signs COVID-19 is contained at Cook County Jail, while experts caution measures need to remain in place

May 30, 2020 at 8:44 a.m.

Victoria Furlow took a step back so she could clearly see her patient sitting at her work station in the busy intake area of Cook County Jail. In a calm...

Sylvia Hardy keeps a face mask lowered while standing in her front porch in the 700 block of South Kilbourn Avenue on May 9, 2020, in Chicago. Hardy's grandson, 15-year-old Demetrius Hardy, was fatally shot at the front porch on April 8, 2020, and her youngest son, Dennis Glover, 28, was also fatally shot at the front of the home on Dec. 26, 2013. The 60624 ZIP code, where she lives, has among the city's highest reported cases of COVID-19 and rates of gun violence.

COVID-19 hitting hardest in Chicago ZIP codes already struggling with deadly threat of gun violence

May 16, 2020 at 7:25 p.m.

On a recent Saturday morning at Springfield Avenue and Wilcox Street, residents wearing masks walked dogs past blooming red tulips. A family stepped onto their porch with laundry bags stuffed...

Inmigrante acordó quedarse en la cárcel para evitar problemas con ICE y perdió la vida por COVID-19

May 6, 2020 at 3:13 p.m.

A principios de marzo, Rene Olivo Sangabriel era sólo uno de los miles de reclusos del condado de Cook que pronto se encontrarían en el camino devastador de COVID-19. Sangabriel,...

Inmate who agreed to stay in Cook County Jail to avoid immigration trouble lost life to COVID-19 instead

March 11, 2024 at 2:05 p.m.

In early March, Rene Olivo Sangabriel was just one among the thousands of Cook County Jail inmates who would soon find themselves in the devastating path of COVID-19. Sangabriel, 42,...

Stateville Correctional Center on March 30, 2020.

Inmates at 2 Illinois prisons allowed again to talk on phone with attorneys, after temporary suspension

April 20, 2020 at 7:59 p.m.

Illinois Department of Corrections officials say they have restored attorney-client phone calls at Stateville and Hill prisons, acknowledging that pandemic-related restrictions on inmate movement had forced officials to temporarily suspend...

Judge agrees to release local handyman whose neighbors called attention to his plight in Cook County Jail

April 15, 2020 at 6:19 p.m.

A jailed North Side handyman whose neighbors raised alarm about his extraordinarily high bond last week was handed a reprieve Wednesday, as the judge who originally ordered the man held...

Friends and neighbors sing during a vigil for Thomas E. Johnson and Leslie Ann Jones in Oak Park on April 15, 2020.

Cops probe deaths of attorneys — husband and wife — found in their Oak Park home. ‘Compassionate … welcoming … they were interested in helping people.’

April 15, 2020 at 11:29 p.m.

Two prominent attorneys were found dead in their Oak Park home Monday night under what authorities called "suspicious circumstances," though police Chief LaDon Reynolds said there was no reason to...

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