Proviso Township High School Teachers Postpone Strike After District's Latest Offer
Teachers at Proviso Township High School District 209 have postponed plans for a strike, after the district increased its salary offer to the union.
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Teachers at Proviso Township High School District 209 have postponed plans for a strike, after the district increased its salary offer to the union.
A trucker crashed into a South Side woman's car, then told police it was all her fault. Even worse, the police report backed up the trucker - until the South Sider found proof.
A winter storm brought heavy snow for some areas and now roadways need to be cleared Friday morning.
Bitter temperatures are back, but a warmup is on the way.
Chicago is under a Winter Weather Advisory Thursday as snow pounded the area.
Last week, the City of Chicago essentially put an end to parking dibs for the season – advising people they had better pick up their lawn chairs and ironing boards they had used to reserve parking spaces, or else the city would toss them. In the Bridgeport neighborhood following the winter storm that pounded the area Thursday, dibs items were back in the streets again.
Dozens of vehicles are said to be involved in a massive pile-up east of Peoria.
A jury on Thursday ruled that a man convicted in the 2010 murder of Chicago Police Officer Thomas Wortham IV had been fit to stand trial, after his attorneys argued that he'd had amnesia and did not remember the incident.
It was a rough drive for anyone who had to be on the roads during the winter storm Thursday afternoon and evening. Marie Saavedra found plenty of less-than-ideal conditions as she documented her drive from the CBS 2 Broadcast Center downtown to the south suburbs.
A suburban mother now has her money back, after she had more than $4,000 taken from her bank account when someone stole and altered a check she had written to her mortgage company.
Thursday marked the second day of squabbling on the Illinois House floor over masks to mitigate against COVID-19.
A judge on Thursday afternoon ordered Illinois Department of Children and Family Services Director Marc Smith in contempt of court for the fourth time in two months.
"I think if they're going to turn off someone's gas, they should make sure nobody is in the house."
Northwest Indiana saw blizzard conditions all afternoon Thursday as a heavy snowstorm pounded the Chicago area.
Another rusted-out city pole fell into a busy Chicago intersection Thursday, this time in Streeterville.
