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A businessman pleaded guilty Tuesday to a scheme that ripped off hospitals at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic – when the world desperately needed masks.
It will be partly cloudy Tuesday night with lows in the upper 20s and low 30s.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson had a broad smile on her face as President Joe Biden announced her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court last week. As CBS 2's Marissa Perlman reported Tuesday night, some Chicago high school debaters are smiling ear-to-ear at the thought of Judge Jackson becoming Justice Jackson too.
A 12-year-old girl was shot and critically wounded in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood Tuesday night.
Two people were injured Tuesday night in a shooting on the Dan Ryan Expressway.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker spoke highly of President Joe Biden's remarks in the State of the Union address Tuesday night – and also took note of the fact that two women were standing behind the president during the address for the first time Tuesday.
In a State of the Union speech that brought both houses of Congress back to the Capitol, President Biden emphasized what unites the country while trying to reassure Americans worried about the Ukraine crisis, inflation and gas prices that "we are going to be OK."
Black people make up approximately 30% of the city's population, but made up 68% of investigatory stops by police, and 84% of use of force incidents after investigatory stops from Oct. 17, 2017, through Feb. 28, 2020.
"In Kyle's 12 years here, he's worked across all functional departments and operations. Maybe most importantly and in the end, Kyle represents high character and high values."
The lockout, in its 90th day, will plunge a sport staggered by the coronavirus pandemic and afflicted by numerous on-field issues into a self-inflicted hiatus over the inability of players and owners to divide a $10 billion industry.
"At the end of the day, people spend money. And there are hundreds of thousands of dollars every day that are leaving Englewood, leaving these surrounding neighborhoods."
A brand-new Illinois law is on the books preventing convicted animal abusers from owning pets or having pets in their homes, but CBS 2 found there's nothing in place to actually enforce it, and no guidance for law enforcement.
They were supposed to be protected by the Department of Children and Family Services, but instead, two children from downstate Illinois have died in the last month.
"It's very disheartening to see what's happening and I just hope it stops soon. I don't know how, I hope it ends soon for the people of Ukraine."
