The Chicago-area county published an interactive map that shows socioeconomic changes based on five years of Census Bureau data.

Cook County, Illinois, recently completed a five-year, $25 million upgrade from traditional phone lines to voice-over-IP.

The CIO of Cook County, Illinois, said he's been looking for "shovel-ready projects" as spending from the American Rescue Plan begins.

The county, which includes Chicago, expanded a new software platform that makes tax collections on a range of goods more efficient.

Cook County will use an automation tool to identify criminal records eligible to be overturned under Illinois' new marijuana legalization law.

The tool's creators are hopeful more detailed information on regional felony cases will inform smarter policy in the nation's second-largest county.

Officials of the Chicago-area municipality tick off the benefits of combining eight outdated systems into a single modern solution for all 22,000 county employees.

Dessa Gypalo, a former data director for D.C. nonprofits, is charged with advancing the local government's use and governance of data.

The secretaries of state from three states told a Senate committee they're making progress in securing elections, slowly.

New policies and data tools are helping Cook County, Illinois, enforce tax codes and recover tens of millions in losses and unpaid taxes.