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A Will County man was arrested Thursday night in south suburban Frankfort Township after he allegedly barricaded himself inside his residence with a two-foot-long machete and refused police orders to surrender. Police said handguns and other knives were later found inside the home.
The Naperville woman's death drew national attention. It is now the subject of an HBO documentary.
Up to two inches of snow fell overnight in parts of the Chicago area, and the early arrival of winter might have people shivering, but many people seemed to be embracing the snow.
"The whole [birther] thing was crazy and mean-spirited, of course, its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed. But it was also dangerous, deliberately meant to stir up the wingnuts and kooks," Michelle Obama writes in her memoir, "Becoming."
Chicagoland saw light flurries early Friday morning, with snow expected to last through the morning rush.
Three women have been attacked at Northwestern University in the past week, prompting a campus safety alert. At least two of the incidents happened near sororities on the Evanston campus.
The fire started around 3:15 a.m. in a two-story home near 78th and Sangamon.
Even before the mass shooting in California this week, Northwestern University has been working on an active shooter safety video to help keep students and staff safe.
Passionate arguments erupted Thursday night during a conversation about a veterans' cemetery being proposed in northwest suburban South Barrington.
Netflix, Pandora, Spotify-- those are just some of the streaming services Chicagoans already get taxed on as part of the city's amusement tax.
CBS 2 Investigator Dave Savini found a pattern of Chicago police officers raiding the wrong homes.
Plagued by a long list of Election Day problems, commissioners in Porter, Indiana have asked the FBI to investigate what's been described as "scores of alleged violations in Indiana Election Law" following Tuesday's elections.
Four Chicago men have been charged in connection with two robberies at Yorktown Mall in Lombard on Tuesday.
Sydney Waters and her husband Tyler--a Mundelein police officer and a former Marine--met in high school and have three children together. Sydney has gone public with Tyler's battle with PTSD in the hopes sharing their story will help others.
