Cook County Department of Corrections
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The Cook County Department of Corrections (CCDOC) is one of the largest (96 acres) single site county pre-detention facilities in the United States. Primarily holding pre-trial detainees, the Department admits approximately roughly 100,000 detainees annually and averages a daily population of 9,000.

The facility covers more than eight city blocks with ten divisions, a health services facility, two education departments, a privatized food service and commissary agency, and four additional onsite Sheriff’s departments. Each CCDOC division has a detainee visiting area, dispensary, law library, chapel or multi-purpose room, staff office, and day room in the living units for detainees to eat meals and watch television etc.
Cook County Department Of Corrections
2700 South California Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60608
(773) 674-7100