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Chicago native, rapper, and now presidential candidate Kanye West has enough signatures to make it onto the Illinois ballot.
Guthrie's Tavern in Wrigleyville announced Monday that it is going out of business.
Police were asking for help Monday night in finding a woman who is missing from Logan Square and who suffers from dementia.
Two men were shot and critically wounded Monday evening under the Union Pacific-West Metra line viaduct on the Near West Side.
We get a lot of emails - some nice, some not, and some asking for help – and we get back to all of those. But over the weekend, CBS 2's Brad Edwards got an email he couldn't quite let go of about a dog who's enjoying the time he has left.
Lake County, Indiana on Monday issued an order requiring face masks under most circumstances.
"On March 15 we had 135 employees. On March 17 we went down to three."
The city has kept decades of police misconduct records under wraps, and is now willing to pay half a million dollars of your taxpayer money to keep it that way.
They not only sharpen a PVC pipe, they're seen re-stocking the crowd with projectiles: bricks and frozen water bottles; fuel to a hot, tense Friday evening.
"We don't need federal agents, without any insignia, taking people off the street and holding them, I think, unlawfully. That's not what we need," Mayor Lightfoot said.
"Workers just don't want to come to work anymore and they're blaming the COVID on their reason not to come to work."
Chicago currently allows "no-fault" evictions, but the ordinance backed by a group of progressive aldermen seeks to put an end to that.
The Illinois Department of Public Health said Monday's cases bring the statewide total to 162,748 confirmed coronavirus cases and 7,301 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
What would you do if you won the Lotto? Well first, you'd probably collect your money – but in Illinois, many players can't even do that right now.
The money, spread over five years, comes from the National Institutes of Health and goes to the university's Center for Clinical and Translational Science.
A Ronald McDonald House near Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago reveals its new makeover after six months of construction.
Meteorologist Kylee Miller has the extended forecast.
Authorities in Los Angeles are bracing for a fifth day of demonstrations over deportation sweeps by ICE agents. Hundreds of U.S. Marines have now been deployed to the city, along with 2,000 more National Guard troops, at President Trump's direction. Protests against immigration enforcement are now popping up in other cities nationwide.
HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is removing every member of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee, which makes vaccine recommendations, claiming it has "become little more than a rubber stamp for any vaccine."
A man and a 15-year-old boy were shot and wounded Monday evening in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood.
The Chicago City Council is set to consider an ordinance that could establish bird-friendly requirements for new construction and major renovations.
Johnson says he is addressing his future and the future of Chicago on Sunday, Sept. 13.
A federal judge extended her block on the U.S. Postal Service's new requirements for mail voting, as states prepare to begin sending mail ballots to voters for the November midterm elections.
The Supreme Court left in place guidance from the Federal Communications Commission that allows political parties and committees access to cheaper rates for political ads.
The Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act set aside $140 million to give controllers a 3.8% pay raise, but they have so far only received the 1% raise given to all government employees.
Drivers in Chicago and beyond were paying the highest gas prices ever recorded for the Labor Day holiday as millions of Americans were making their way home on Monday.
Around 115 million domestic and international tourists visited Illinois last year, pushing visitor spending past $50 billion for the first time and generating more than $88 billion in total economic impact.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul filed a lawsuit Thursday against ABC Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electric Inc., alleging deceptive business practices.
Cook County homeowners are again facing a sharper increase in property taxes this year than businesses, the Office of Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas announced Monday.
Contracted linemen from out of state sat idle in a Griffith church parking lot for hours without work orders from NIPSCO, as residents in Northwest Indiana approach two weeks without power.
Cardinal Blase Cupich and a group of Catholic nuns have joined a federal lawsuit challenging Illinois' Medical Aid in Dying law, which is set to take effect in just over a week.
Flies have been everywhere this summer in the Chicago area, and some of them bite. But why is this happening?
Prime Healthcare is drawing criticism after announcing it will stop obstetrics services at three Chicago-area hospitals.
The Chicago Department of Public Health on Tuesday announced two human cases and one death from the West Nile virus in the city this year, and one of those two people has died.
The Jackson Chance Foundation supports the lives of families with babies in the NICU by removing the financial burden of finding parking near hospitals.
Around 115 million domestic and international tourists visited Illinois last year, pushing visitor spending past $50 billion for the first time and generating more than $88 billion in total economic impact.
A new Whole Foods Market is coming to Chicago's Old Town neighborhood.
More than 100 Black-owned businesses were showcased at Soldier Field Sunday for Black on the Block.
A Wisconsin prosecutor says he will not file election bribery charges against billionaire Elon Musk even though the state's bipartisan elections commission said he likely broke state law.
An expert blames Illinois lawmakers and "internecine political problems" for the failure to seal a deal for a new stadium within the state for the Chicago Bears.
The stage was set and the air was humid as rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, took the stage for the first of two Chicago concerts at Soldier Field Thursday night.
James Fulton Engstrom, now a healthy teenager, was born without a pulse in 2010 — and his survival is the miracle the Catholic Church credited to Fulton Sheen's intercession, clearing the way for beatification.
The Met's decision to highlight the work by designer John Galliano sparked widespread controversy due to his history of antisemitic and racist comments.
The Edgewater Music Festival was under way this weekend on Chicago's north lakefront.
People around the world, including Chicago, continued to gather Wednesday to pay tribute to the late Dolly Parton.
Do you have cravings for junk food or maybe other things? Dr. Laura Wool, a clinical psychologist at Loyola Medicine, explains to Marie Saavedra how to keep your cravings in check.
Meteorologist Laura Bannon has your 5 a.m. First Alert Weather forecast for Monday, Sept. 7, 2026.
Technology has long changed the way students learn, and now, AI is ushering in the next era. Jarred Hill looks at how students and educators are adapting to artificial intelligence.
The exposure that tens of thousands of first responders suffered during the recovery and cleanup at the World Trade Center site after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, continues to make an impact. Michael George has a first responder’s story.
Drivers in Chicago and beyond were paying the highest gas prices ever recorded for the Labor Day holiday as millions of Americans were making their way home on Monday. Darius Johnson reports.
Drivers in Chicago and beyond are paying the highest gas prices ever recorded for the Labor Day holiday.
Juan Jaimes' family is now split in two. He is in Chicago, but his mother, father, sister and brother are back in Colombia.
Some videos on social media show weapons, a pickup truck doing donuts and a wheel flying into a crowd.
A 17-year-old boy was hospitalized early Monday after being shot in Chicago's Chatham community.
A man was killed in a shooting Sunday night on the western edge of Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood.
Several lawsuits are challenging Illinois' medical aid in dying law that is set to take effect on Sept. 12, including one in federal court arguing the law discriminates against people with disabilities.
Back in 2023, ISP got a $10 million grant from the Illinois Secretary of State's Illinois Vehicle Hijacking and Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention and Insurance Verification Council.
Two years before dozens of decomposing bodies were found inside the South Chicago Chapel funeral home, police in nearby Evergreen Park found two bodies in the owners' minivan outside their home.
Hundreds of people are suing the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, where they say they were sexually abused by staff. For the first time, survivors detailed their experience exclusively to CBS News Chicago.
Why has the family that runs South Chicago Chapel, where 56 decomposing bodies were found this month, never faced criminal charges, despite a history of mishandling human remains?
Suhey scored the first touchdown in Super Bowl XX against the Patriots in 1986.
Sam Antonacci added three doubles and two RBIs for the White Sox, who maintained their 2 1/2-game lead in the AL Central over Cleveland.
Cubs slugger Pete Crow-Armstrong hit his 40th homer and joined Philadelphia's Kyle Schwarber (42) as the only players to reach the mark this season.
The Twins pulled within six games of the White Sox in the AL Central and 3 1/2 games of the third AL wild card.
Michael Busch and Miguel Amaya each doubled and singled for the Cubs, who finished with 13 hits.
A 17-year-old boy was hospitalized early Monday after being shot in Chicago's Chatham community.
A man was killed in a shooting Sunday night on the western edge of Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood.
Three people were shot and wounded in Chicago's West Garfield Park neighborhood Sunday morning.
Some videos on social media show weapons, a pickup truck doing donuts and a wheel flying into a crowd.
Chicago police were investigating Sunday morning after teenagers were shot and wounded in separate incidents the night before.
