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Because of debit cards, many of us don't have cash in our wallets these days. But not to worry – now, making a donation to the Salvation Army on the street or at the mall is as easy as grabbing your cell phone.
The family of a 15-year-old boy who was accidentally shot in a shootout at an Old Irving Park music school has set up a GoFundMe to support the surgeries he needs.
A law enforcement vehicle was stolen early Sunday in the West Morgan Park neighborhood, police said.
A truck driver was killed Sunday evening in a multi-vehicle crash involving a semi-trailer truck, a pickup truck, and a car near Plainfield.
Lissette Ortiz, 54, has been charged with one felony count of solicitation of murder for hire.
A 19-year-old student who was found dead in her car in a University of Illinois at Chicago parking garage this weekend is was strangled and her death was a homicide, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
The new beluga calf at the Shedd Aquarium now officially has a new name.
A woman plunged to her death at the Water Tower Place mall on Sunday evening, police said.
Fire Department officials said, around 7 a.m., Engine 122 was involved in a crash with a passenger vehicle at 75th and King Drive.
Police believe a break-in at a cellphone store on Clark Street near Diversey Parkway could be connected to a series of burglaries targeting cellphone stores.
A 15-year-old girl is dead after a shooting in Aurora early Sunday morning, local police said.
A man stood charged with murder Sunday evening after a woman he said was his girlfriend was found stabbed to death in their Schaumburg home.
Police were asking for help Sunday evening in finding a 9-year-old girl who went missing in Rogers Park.
One person has died a day after a fire in the West Englewood community.
Conditions will be mild and pleasant again on Monday, but it won't last.
A robber is still on the run after a bold heist in a suburban Denver puppy store. Surveillance video caught one man faking a seizure, trying to get workers and customers to help him, and while everyone was distracted, a second man grabbed two puppies and ran off.
The Trump administration has already laid off many federal workers who were in their first year of employment. Now they're working to cut employees who have more tenure.
The installation was inspired by an intense rescue last summer.
The City Council on Wednesday narrowly approved an $830 million bond deal to finance infrastructure projects. On the surface, it sounds great for Chicago; new money to repair crumbling streets, rusted light poles, and bad bridges. But critics say, while those fixes need to be made, the way the city plans to pay for it is financially irresponsible.
A suspect was in custody after an ambulance was stolen from outside a hospital on Wednesday afternoon in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Northwest Side of Chicago.
The Altoids were a callback to a viral moment between former first lady Michelle Obama and former President George W. Bush.
A senior Justice Department official called a judge's demand for a declaration on the status of the "anti-weaponization" fund "unnecessary."
Trump has appeared during the Iran war to lose patience with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who may now find himself "stuck."
President Trump and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni traded criticism on Saturday after Italy canceled its envoy's visit to the U.S.
The Justice Department says it's released "every document required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act," but CBS News has identified numerous gaps.
An Illinois law banning "swipe fees" on taxes and tips — already delayed twice by lawmakers — appears to be on life support after a federal judge that once permitted it issued a permanent injunction against it this week.
A new study from the Cook County Treasurer's office underlines growing concerns about the impact the Illinois megaprojects bill could have on the county's property tax base and overall fiscal health.
As thousands of Chicagoans wrap up road trips over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, gas prices in the city have reached the highest levels seen in four years.
Consumer and environmental advocates said Monday that they found overcharges buried in the most recent rate-hike request by Nicor.
One week away from Memorial Day weekend and the unofficial start of the summer travel season, with gas prices remaining high, negotiations were set to resume Monday at the largest oil refinery in the Midwest.
Illinois is among the top 13 states seeing a rise in alpha-gal syndrome cases, with residents living in southern Illinois at the highest risk, according to a 2025 study.
After Bruce Willis was diagnosed with dementia, his wife Emma Heming Willis found a new purpose as a health advocate.
The North Shore suburb of Wilmette this week became the latest Chicago-area municipality to discover mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus this year.
Dr. Peter Stafford was working with a missionary group in the Congo when he came down with the virus last month.
While 330 Ebola infections are confirmed in central Africa and huge challenges remain, hundreds more suspected cases "have been cleared out," the WHO says.
Daley's Restaurant, known as Chicago's oldest, has served Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood for more than 130 years.
Walgreens is set to close in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood on Thursday, and there's growing concern about where families will get their medications.
The owners of Gene & Georgetti steakhouse are suing a concessions operator over their expansion at Midway International Airport.
DraftKings announced Monday that it is closing its sportsbook operation at Wrigley Field after only about two years.
After more than 80 years, there will be no Ann Sather restaurant location in the 900 block of West Belmont Avenue in Chicago's Lakeview community, effective in June.
Claude Guillemot and a flight instructor were flying in a twin-motor Cessna 421 on Friday evening. An investigation into the crash is underway.
James Burrows directed more than 1,000 episodes of television, including every episode of the original "Will & Grace."
In a full circle moment, actor Gary Cole returns to the very same local stage where he began his professional acting career.
Record producer Tay Keith was found dead in his Nashville home by officers performing a welfare check, police said.
Tom Dreesen, a pioneering actor and comedian and Chicago-area native, died Wednesday.
Dozens of family members came out for the service at the Gold Star Family and Memorial Park. The Chicago Police Chaplain's Ministry holds the mass every year, honoring loved ones killed in the line of duty.
Lake County Sheriff’s deputies were called to unincorporated Gurnee around 4:40 a.m. on Saturday for a report of a missing girl. Detectives found 24-year-old Jordy Fuerte Perez with the girl, who is under 14 years old, near Libertyville around later, around 6 p.m.
At 4:29 a.m., the burglars crashed into the Corcle K at 211 W. Adams St. with a black Jeep sport-utility vehicle. Multiple thieves got out and tried to take the ATM, police said
Currie was first elected to the state house in 1978. She held her seat for 40 years, becoming the longest serving woman in state history and THE first woman to serve as house majority leader.
The president took to social media early Sunday morning, saying in part, "Lots of killing going on in Chicago .... Why isn't Governor Pritzker calling me for help. I could make Chicago a safe city..."
A man on a CTA Red Line train was injured by broken glass in a shooting on the Dan Ryan Expressway near 95th Street Sunday morning.
A shooting that sent three people to the hospital after a large gathering on the city's West Side.
A 17-year-old boy was in police custody Sunday morning after a shooting that left another teen dead in the South Austin neighborhood on Chicago's West Side.
Multiple shootings have occurred across the city following a mass shooting on the South Side that left 13 wounded on Friday night.
Dillon Dingler homered and drove in the tying run in the ninth, Matt Vierling's bloop single finished off Detroit's comeback as the Tigers beat the Chicago White Sox 5-4 in 10 innings on Sunday.
Newly released cell phone video of a police shooting in south suburban Country Club Hills appears to contradict what a federal agent claims happened during an undercover gun trafficking sting operation last week.
"A house of horrors." That's how one former Chicago foster child described Aunt Martha's Integrated Care Center, a facility that's been at the center of a years-long CBS News Chicago investigation.
Kindbody entered into an agreement with a cryogenic storage facility in Massachusetts, but not all patients received the email.
A Chicago woman says a life insurance policy she paid into for 25 years was cancelled over a $112 shortfall that she never knew existed, and now, at 82 years old, she's uninsurable.
The Crisis Alternative Response Evanston, or CARE, team responds to calls that, before July 2024, would have been lumped into police calls.
Dillon Dingler homered and drove in the tying run in the ninth, Matt Vierling's bloop single finished off Detroit's comeback as the Tigers beat the Chicago White Sox 5-4 in 10 innings on Sunday.
The Chicago Cubs' game against the Toronto Blue Jays that had been planned for Sunday was postponed due to the rain coming in.
Dallas chipped away and trailed 43-38 at halftime, but the Sky dominated the third quarter and led 71-57 before losing for the 10th time in 11 games.
Chicago's Jacob Webb (1-2) came on with two on in the eighth and gave up consecutive RBI singles to Alejandro Kirk and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to tie the game at 5-all.
Troy Melton allowed one hit in six innings and the Detroit Tigers' offense came alive late in a 4-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox.
A man on a CTA Red Line train was injured by broken glass in a shooting on the Dan Ryan Expressway near 95th Street Sunday morning, according to Illinois State Police.
Would-be burglars crashed their way into a Circle K store in downtown Chicago early Sunday morning.
Detectives from Lake County, Illinois, Sheriff's office rescued a girl under 14 from a grown man who had traveled from Georgia to meet her this weekend, authorities said Sunday.
A man was robbed on a Chicago Transit Authority bus in Chicago's West Englewood community late Saturday night.
A 17-year-old boy was in police custody Sunday morning after a shooting that left another teen dead in the South Austin neighborhood on Chicago's West Side.
