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    The Cook County Jail, located on 96 acres (39 hectares) in South Lawndale, Chicago, Illinois, is operated by the Sheriff of Cook County. It is sometimes...
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  • Live in Cook County Jail is a 1971 live album by American blues musician B.B. King, recorded on September 10, 1970, in Cook County Jail in Chicago. Agreeing...
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    detainee population of the Cook County Jail, transporting prisoners and overseeing offender rehabilitation programs. The Cook County Sheriff's Office is carved...
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    comedian, Hines began working as a correctional officer at Chicago's Cook County Jail in 1994, at the age of 24. He quit the job in 2003 when he was cast...
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  • Roxie, in a fit of anger, confesses herself. She is booked into the Cook County Jail for holding; terrified of her potential fate, Jake, a crime reporter...
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    the cell blocks of the Cook County Jail, and a hanging gallows for prisoners sentenced to death. During the 1920s the attached jail (which was behind the...
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    Cook County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Illinois and the second-most-populous county in the United States, after Los Angeles County...
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    detained in Cook County jail for over three years, he was acquitted in December 2017 and began his musical career. Upon Von's release from jail in December...
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  • followed by a live album Concert: Friday the 13th - Cook County Jail, recorded at the Cook County Jail in Chicago in 1972. Levy performed as a member of...
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    Morelli's request. Morelli was executed in the electric chair in the Cook County Jail at 12:08 a.m. on November 26, 1949, and pronounced dead two minutes...
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