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Tornado warnings were issued Monday afternoon as severe thunderstorms swept into the Chicago area and brought hurricane-force winds and serious damage to trees, power lines, and even buildings.
At a florist in Streeterville, looters did not steal flowers. They just destroyed the place.
The unrest that ravaged downtown Chicago in the early morning hours Monday started after a police-involved shooting the day before in Englewood. CBS 2 Investigator Dave Savini went inside the home where the shooting victim ran after he was hit by police gunfire.
Some more instances of looting and break-ins were reported on Monday night, a night after widespread looting and chaos in and around downtown Chicago.
Some of the people arrested for looting downtown early Monday morning were still in custody Monday night, and a vocal group was trying to get them out.
The Chicago Police Department on Monday announced a path forward to fulfill a federal consent decree that took effect last year.
The Local School Council at Lane Tech College Prep on Monday voted to remove school resource officers from its building.
This has been a very tense time in Chicago, with first the pandemic and then major outbreaks of unrest, just two months apart. As CBS 2's Jim Williams noted Monday night, the city has lived through this before.
On a day when it was anything but business as usual, businesses in the Loop were hit hard by looting – and late Monday afternoon, many were still cleaning up.
Two activists told CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot they in no way condone the looting overnight and into Monday afternoon. They say what we saw has to do with survival, on many levels.
States react to President Trump's executive order extending additional weekly unemployment insurance payments in the amount of $400.
Destruction during the unrest and looting in Chicago early Monday morning did not stop in the Loop or the Magnificent Mile.
City trucks and shopping carts block several entrance ways into shopping centers near 87th and the Dan Ryan. It's an area where several businesses were hit by looting in the days after George Floyd's death.
"It's like seeing your backyard get trashed. Ultimately we had to do something to help out."
The mayor wants punishment with more teeth and a signal that in Chicago, when you do this, you pay a massive price.
