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An Indiana state trooper is recovering after being shot during a pursuit on I-65 in Northwest Indiana Friday night.
Protesters have locked themselves inside the campus police headquarters at the University of Chicago, and now they say officers won't let anyone bring them food.
A Chicago police officer is recovering after being hit by someone driving off from a traffic stop at Chicago and Wells right by the Moody Bible Institute.
After few overnight showers wrapped up early Saturday, clouds quickly diminished and leave a sunny but cool day for the Chicago area.
Serious concerns have been raised over Illinois police officers with ties to right wing extremist groups.
A $22 million headache -- that's what some who have waited months for unemployment benefits calls Illinois' Pandemic Unemployment Assistance system. A man CBS 2 spoke with says the system's incompatibility with the state's existing system could have cause his wait.
Protesters were occupying the campus police department at the University of Chicago Friday night.
Using their bare hands neighbors helped rescue a family trapped after their SUV flipped over during a car crash on the Southwest Side.
A police-involved shooting has been reported in the Englewood neighborhood.
The intrusion of cool air is moving into northern Illinois, and as the front sags southward, temperatures will begin to drop.
Lightfoot is using the incident as a platform, calling for police officers across the state to be licensed.
Illinois is gradually opening up, but in the age of COVID-19 the state's top doctor is still watching the numbers.
"It's about redefining law enforcement to be more effective when we need it."
"I don't want other people to get the same way, but what they did was really wrong."
Former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett lost his bid to have new disorderly conduct charges thrown out, after a Cook County judge ruled Friday the case does not violate his protection against double jeopardy.
Chicago police said a group of unknown people, driving a silver Hyundai four-door sedan, forcibly entered businesses by smashing either a window or the front glass door. Once inside, they stole cash from the registers.
The Switch 2 will also have more third-party software, with titles exclusively on the console/portable.
The second part of the movie adaptation of the Broadway hit picks up where part one left off.
The order also directs the secretary of state “to consider revoking” visas for current students who meet the proclamation's criteria.
A spokesperson says 72-year-old Gad Haggai and 70-year-old Judy Weinstein were returned to Israel last night and will be laid to rest.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker excoriated the Republican midterm convention in Dallas at a Democrats' event in Texas Tuesday, calling it "a clown show" focused on President Trump while Americans are hurting.
Illinois' legislature will once again soon find itself without a legislative inspector general. Michael McCuskey will resign that watchdog post amid criticism about his ability to handle investigations.
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to intervene in a lawsuit over the use of a controversial data system to review state voter rolls.
Brooks is seeking to stand out with a platform centering on revitalizing city neighborhoods and new means of promoting public safety.
Turning Point Action is expanding its Iowa presence county by county, with leaders saying high voter participation in the caucuses is the organization's key measure of success.
Nicor customers will get a break on their bills this fall after Illinois Attorney General Kwame Roul reached an agreement with the utility to cut $140 million from its requested rate hike.
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.
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.
Plans for a new Chicago White Sox stadium in the South Loop have residents near the existing ballpark in Bridgeport concerned, not just because the team might be leaving, but also what might be coming nearby.
A new report from the University of Illinois Chicago said federal immigration enforcement led to $1.26 billion in unspent money at retail establishments and restaurants in Cook County.
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.
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.
Health officials said the second person is vaccinated, but was exposed by the county’s other confirmed case reported last month.
A 16-year-old boy died after being found shot in Grant Park's skate park in the South Loop Wednesday night, Chicago police said.
The two-day event brings together 300 literary voices for a weekend of conversations, performances, readings, book signings, and other events. Illinois Poet Laureate Mark Turcotte joins Dana Kozlov.
Celebrate wedding season in Orland Park with Jackie Kostek.
A new report from the World Health Organization made the strong connection between treating hearing loss and preventing dementia. Marianne Gaspary, a hearing instrument specialist at Beltone Chicago, joins Dave Savini to talk about the association between the conditions.
A 15-year-old boy is charged with multiple felonies for an April shooting that killed a Hyde Park Academy student and hurt a 16-year-old girl.
The family of a 21-year-old man who was shot and killed by a Des Plaines police officer Wednesday said while he struggled with mental health, they're baffled by why police used such force with him.
A 16-year-old boy died after being found shot in Grant Park's skate park in the South Loop Wednesday night, Chicago police said.
Metra is looking for students to design a safety superhero for the commuter rail agency's 20th annual safety competition.
A 21-year-old man was stabbed in the Loop early Thursday morning during a fight, Chicago police said.
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?
AL Central-leading Chicago (75-70) maintained a two-game lead over Cleveland, which lost at Baltimore.
The Brewers extend their NL Central lead to 10 games over the Cubs.
Milwaukee extended its NL Central lead to nine games over Chicago by coming from behind to defeat the Cubs for a second straight day.
Chicago's Kyle Teel hit his second homer in two games and singled. Munetaka Murakami struck out four times.
Braxton Jones will be the Chicago Bears' starting left tackle for Week 1 against the Carolina Panthers. It's the fifth straight season he will start there, after beating out three others for the job during training camp.
Thieves stole three golf carts from the Billy Caldwell Golf Course on Chicago's Northwest Side early Thursday.
The parents of a man who was killed after being pushed out of a moving CTA Red Line train were speaking out on Wednesday about their devastating loss.
Valerie Percy, the 21-year-old daughter of then-U.S. Senate candidate Charles Percy, was brutally murdered in her family's home in the affluent North Shore Chicago suburb of Kenilworth in 1966. The case has never been solved.
Two Chicago men have been sentenced to more than 14 years in prison for carjacking a Chicago family at gunpoint in the backyard of their home in the Beverly neighborhood in 2023.
Gaming machines were irreparably damaged when burglars hit a restaurant in Schaumburg, Illinois, early Tuesday.
