Starbucks Shuts Down More Than 8,000 Stores For Anti-Bias Training
Chicago area Starbucks stores were among the more than 8,000 Starbucks locations around the country locking their doors Tuesday afternoon to train employees about racial bias.
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Chicago area Starbucks stores were among the more than 8,000 Starbucks locations around the country locking their doors Tuesday afternoon to train employees about racial bias.
Police found 41 small animals dead inside the Macomb Pet Land, which had been closed and did not have working electricity.
An Aurora man who tried to kill a man after breaking into the man's home will spend the next 48 years in prison, according to the Kane County State's Attorney's Office.
A flock of life-sized replicas of giant flying reptiles known as pterosaurs are being added to the Field Museum.
A southern Illinois woman is set to give birth to her own grandchildren because her daughter is unable to get pregnant.
An attorney for Morthland College says the southern Illinois school will be closing permanently.
Chicago police directed unruly teenagers on Michigan Avenue to get on the Red Line or buses and leave the area over the holiday weekend.
Reputed mob boss John "No Nose" DiFronzo, who escaped prosecution in the landmark "Family Secrets" trial of top Chicago Outfit leaders, has died in DuPage County.
ABC canceled its hit sitcom "Roseanne" on Tuesday after the show's biggest star, Roseanne Barr, went on a racist Twitter rant against Chicago's Valerie Jarrett, a top former aide to President Obama.
For comparison, the death toll from 2005's Hurricane Katrina -- the costliest hurricane in U.S. history -- was far lower, and estimated at 1,833.
Authorities say 41 small animals were found dead inside a closed pet store in western Illinois where the electricity had been disconnected.
Police records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request from CBS show Maria Cortez's three young children were found wandering alone at a Dollar General store on Pulaski Road before police later discovered the family was living in squalid conditions.
Their sponsors have not responded to follow-up calls from the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), HHS Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan said.
Gas prices in the Chicago area are increasing at twice the rate as other places in the U.S., according to gas price tracking app GasBuddy.
The decision comes after top administration officials have tried to dampen fears of a trade war.
