CHICAGO — Several veteran homeowners received some much-needed help with repairs under a new program. Cook County used $1,250,000 in federal grants in the last three years to get 30 veteran homes in ...

SomerCor, a nonprofit U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Certified Development Company (CDC) and leading provider of SBA 504 financing, launched a Down Payment Assistance Program (DPAP) to help ...

Cook County on Monday launched of Cook County CannaBiz Pathways, a no-cost advising program for entrepreneurs working in the cannabis industry. The program will offer participants an opportunity to ...

A Cook County program to allow for the waiver of traffic fees for low-income residents was made permanent. State lawmakers made the change for the program that was originally going to end in 2024.

Cook County is at the center of a national debate over how local governments should respond to deep, persistent economic insecurity, but whether it has locked in guaranteed income as a permanent ...

Mark Kellogg and his wife, Keisha, were looking at taking out a hefty home equity line of credit to pay for thousands of dollars in repairs at their Park Forest home. But the U.S. Air Force veteran ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The Cook County Modular Homes Program is ...

Juveniles who participated in a Cook County court program that defers prosecution while offering social services were charged with new criminal offenses at lower rates than their peers, according to ...

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Hundreds of Cook County and Chicago high school students cast their ballots for the first time at the Loop early voting supersite, part of a first-of-its-kind program. The citywide parade to the polls ...

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The second-largest county in the United States has established a permanent guaranteed basic income program after the success of a previous pilot version. The Cook County Board of Commissioners ...