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The opening of the world's largest Starbucks Coffee in the old Crate & Barrel building is the latest development in the evolution of the Magnificent Mile over the more than 150 years.
You could call it the ritziest shopping area west of Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan – and on Friday morning, the Magnificent Mile adds the world's largest Starbucks.
A city pole hanging over busy Stony Island Avenue snapped and fell right on top of a sport-utility vehicle this week.
A University of Chicago student said she was sexually assaulted at a frat party earlier this month.
Jawan Cross is not a prisoner – he's a teen in foster care – and yet, he was shackled by workers from the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
The Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 board on Thursday voted to give transgender students unrestricted access to locker rooms and restrooms.
A 16-year-old boy was shot and wounded Thursday in an Albany Park neighborhood alley.
Two men were shot and critically wounded Thursday evening in Little Village.
The Illinois state House of Representatives adjourned on Thursday without considering Mayor Lori Lightfoot's call for a Chicago casino.
Illinois Senate President John Cullerton announced Thursday night that he will be retiring in January.
Shots were fired into a barbershop Thursday evening in Oak Park.
Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson has denied repeated requests to sit down with the CBS 2 Investigators about wrong raids by officers.
A judge has ordered change within the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
"I don't know why this section of concrete was broken up and framed and the contractors just left. They never came back the next day, or two days later to pour the concrete and I don't understand why not?"
"It's not right to get behind the wheel of a car drunk, but how do you get behind the wheel of a semi drunk. How do you make a conscious decision to do that?"
During Black History Month, social justice artist Tonika Johnson is honoring playwright Lorraine Hansberry, who shattered barriers as the first Black woman to have a play performed on Broadway.
A coalition of federal workers and contractors who were fired by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency are protesting in Washington, D.C., staging a “job fair’ with sit-ins at Senate offices to pressure senators to rein in Musk. It comes as federal employees still on the job are confused about an email sent by Musk, telling them to send a list of work accomplishments, but some federal officials are telling employees not to respond.
Prayers continue from the Vatican as Pope Francis recovers from pneumonia. The Vatican said Pope Francis rested well all night Monday night, and is showing slight improvements, but remains in critical condition.
On Tuesday morning, as polling places opened, Tiffany Henyard told CBS News Chicago she was "excited." Dana Kozlov provides a fact check following Henyard's statements.
Last summer, Black Girls Jump traveled to the Paris Olympics to try and make double-Dutch an Olympic sport. Now they have a new goal, to teach 100,000 kids how to jump rope.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has said agents will take a less public-facing approach, and the chair of the Illinois Accountability Commission says he is already hearing signs of a new arrest uptick.
Etan Patz walked out of his New York City home headed for a school bus stop in May of 1979. He never made it to school and has never been found.
Illinois state and local lawmakers gathered Sunday to remember trailblazing state lawmaker Barbara Flynn Currie.
Alan Greenspan's lengthy reign at the Federal Reserve coincided with a period of stability from the mid-1980s until 2007.
Keir Starmer will step down as U.K. Prime Minister weeks after a brutal round of local elections and as he faced a challenge from within his Labour Party.
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.
Clive Davis helped shape the careers of music stars including Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen and Whitney Houston.
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.
On their official X account, the company went off on Sunday with a series of posts supporting New Zealand defender Tim Payne during their match with Egypt, but in each post, they tagged hip hop star T-Pain instead of Payne.
The company is holding a contest to find the oldest coupon that's still around. it's giving customers through July 13 to dig through their attics, junk drawers and old wallets.
Chicago police said as of Monday morning that the weekend ended with eight people killed and 39 more wounded in shootings over the holiday weekend, going back to 5 p.m. Thursday.
Vice President JD Vance says Iran has agreed to allow nuclear inspectors and to establish a dedicated line of communication to avoid issues over the Strait of Hormuz, but he admits there's still work to be done.
Ruben Castillo, former chief judge of the federal court for Northern Illinois, told CBS News Chicago he is watching for signs of a tactical shift under new Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullin, months after a spring surge that many expected never materialized following last year's Operation Midway Blitz sweep.
After a violent holiday weekend, Chicago city leaders are expected to announce new support for a dedicated Department of Gun Violence Prevention.
An explosion prompted a major evacuation in Dixon, Illinois, Monday morning.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has said agents will take a less public-facing approach, and the chair of the Illinois Accountability Commission says he is already hearing signs of a new arrest uptick.
The search for the missing teen continued during the weekend before she was recovered on Sunday.
Town officials said it could be weeks before they clear all the trees, then construction materials, and after that, rebuilding can finally begin.
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.
The Chicago Hounds won their first-ever championship over the weekend, in just their fourth year of existence.
Chicago's first documented professional team was founded back in 1870. The white stockings, who eventually became the Chicago Cubs, not the White Sox.
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.
Serena Williams recently returned to competition in doubles after nearly four years away from professional tennis.
The Chicago Cubs' game against the Toronto Blue Jays that had been planned for Sunday was postponed due to the rain coming in.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has said agents will take a less public-facing approach, and the chair of the Illinois Accountability Commission says he is already hearing signs of a new arrest uptick.
Chicago police on Monday issued a community alert about two sexual assaults that occurred in the South Shore community this month.
Etan Patz walked out of his New York City home headed for a school bus stop in May of 1979. He never made it to school and has never been found.
Chicago police on Monday morning were investigating a break-in at a smoke shop in the Portage Park community.
After a violent holiday weekend, Chicago city leaders are expected to announce new support for a dedicated Department of Gun Violence Prevention.
