Brookfield Zoo's Holiday Experience Begins Friday
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Forget the turkey. The sea otters at the Shedd Aquarium munched and crunched on clams, pollock, and crabs for Thanksgiving.
The Salvation Army will place smart chips and QR codes on red kettle signs across the country, allowing people to tap their phone to the kettle or scan the QR code to make a customizable online donation.
Chicago police found the bruised body of Frederick Johnson in a South Side garage on June 25. He died from multiple blunt force trauma injuries.
Illinois' unemployment claims were among 778,000 total filed across the country last week.
Two officers were slightly injured when another driver hit their Chicago police vehicle early Friday morning.
A man was killed in a two car crash while he was walking on the sidewalk in the Burnside neighborhood.
It was a holiday tradition for some – after the turkey comes the camp-out, with people waiting in lines for shopping deals even before Thanksgiving is over.
Mostly sunny skies and mild temperatures are ahead.
It will be mild and dry through the weekend, then cooler with a slight chance of snow early next week.
The coronavirus pandemic has altered the way people are celebrating this Thanksgiving, but 2020 is shaping up to be even harder for those in need.
CBS 2 Investigator Dorothy Tucker celebrated Thanksgiving this year with a family Zoom with close to 50 people. They took turns talking about what they were all thankful for and one good thing that happened to them this year, despite the pandemic.
Eliseo Mendoza was struck and killed on Sawyer Avenue just off busy 26th Street. The odds are that there were witnesses to what happened Tuesday morning, and for the family it's just a matter of finding them.
Organizations like the Salvation Army were forced to rethink their plans for Thanksgiving amid this COVID-19 surge.
Some people who have been cooking at home for months took a break this Thanksgiving, instead ordering from restaurants that could really use the business.
