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Jeff Joniak and Tom Thayer break down the Bears' upcoming game this Sunday against the Tennessee Titans.
Several victims reported having their purses stolen from their shopping carts while being distracted, according to Crystal Lake police.
"We don't believe that Illinois dollars should be used to help send a message of hate to immigrants in this country," Illinois State Rep. Will Guzzardi said.
A single mother was welcomed to her new home on the Southwest Side on Tuesday, thanks to assistance from a home ownership program at the Chicago Housing Authority.
A Lake County sheriff's deputy has been placed on administrative leave after he was arrested for drunk driving early Tuesday in northwest Indiana.
A 61-year-old man who suffers from dementia and was reported missing last week in Ravenswood has been found.
Chicago firefighters were responding to an extra-alarm fire Tuesday morning at the Old Post Office in downtown Chicago.
If you keep late hours or want something to eat after a late night out, then keep these Chicago-area restaurants and diners that are open 24 hours a day in mind.
Police were trying to piece together clues in a stabbing attack that left one man dead and three people wounded Monday night in Chinatown.
The Chicago Police Department has begun accepting applications for a new entrance exam, set to be held in April, to begin the process of hiring 970 new officers over the next two years.
Federal prosecutors have alleged former Ald. Edward Vrdolyak schemed with two attorneys to get a cut of legal fees from the state of Illinois' lawsuit against tobacco companies in the 1990s, despite not being authorized to work on the case and doing no work on the lawsuit.
The homicide happened about 2 p.m. in the North Lawndale neighborhood, where a black vehicle pulled up to two boys walking in the 1300 block of South Homan and someone inside opened fire, according to Chicago Police.
About 1:46 a.m., the vehicle drove off the exit ramp from northbound I-94 to 115th Street, according to Illinois State Police.
At 10:28 a.m., the suspects robbed a PNC Bank branch at 2900 Sheridan Road in Zion, according to the FBI. The pair then struck again at 12:43 p.m. at a Fifth Third Bank branch at 240 Skokie Boulevard in Northbrook.
Samuel Rodriguez, 54, was driving at 11:11 a.m. when the vehicle crashed into a tree in the 2100 block of North Kedzie, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Attention pet owners, Thursday is National Check the Chip Day, a day to remind you to have your pets microchipped, and to keep the registration information up to date in case the animal ends up lost or stolen. Dr. Jennifer Osterling, a veterinarian with Animal Care Center of Shorewood, talks about the importance of microchipping.
From laptops to calculators, tech gadgets are a must for the new school year. Carl Prouty, technologist from Abt Electronics, has more on what your kids should have in their backpacks.
Fisher James Kane says he and his partner have found guns, grenades, and even a safe with a stack of money.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will discuss prescription drug costs in their first public appearance together since Biden ended his reelection bid.
Police bodycam video shows the moments a 12-year-old boy's quick thinking saved his mother's life. The woman was driving when she suffered a seizure, passed out, and drove into a pond with her two kids in the car.
Thomas Ross allegedly tried to get his campaign manager to plant cocaine and Adderall on his opponent, federal prosecutors in Missouri said.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson released his 2027 budget forecast on Thursday and said the city's financial hole is not as deep as once feared.
The Pentagon will begin requiring male service members ages 30 and older to get screened for testosterone deficiency, after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called for the change over the summer.
CBP informed Gregory Bovino in an email on March 2 that the agency was "conducting an official Inquiry into allegations of misconduct reported to CBP." He initiated retirement 16 days later.
The head of Chicago's Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection is stepping down.
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.
Contracted linemen from out of state sat idle in a Griffith church parking lot for hours without work orders from NIPSCO, as residents in Northwest Indiana approach two weeks without power.
A law firm has filed a class action lawsuit against NIPSCO, alleging the utility's failure to manage trees and vegetation has left thousands of Northwest Indiana residents without power for up to two weeks.
Dozens of cases of E. coli and salmonella in multiple states are linked to an alfalfa grower in Minnesota, health officials say.
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.
Patients taking the first-of-a-kind pill, called daraxonrasib, lived for a median of 13.2 months compared with 6.7 months for chemotherapy recipients, studies showed.
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.
A Wisconsin prosecutor says he will not file election bribery charges against billionaire Elon Musk even though the state's bipartisan elections commission said he likely broke state law.
An expert blames Illinois lawmakers and "internecine political problems" for the failure to seal a deal for a new stadium within the state for the Chicago Bears.
Real estate investment and development firm Concord Capital has acquired nine apartment buildings on Elaine Place, a single-block residential street in Chicago's East Lakeview community.
The stage is set and the air is humid as rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, prepares to hold the first of two Chicago concerts at Solider 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.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson released his 2027 budget forecast on Thursday and said the city's financial hole is not as deep as
Flies have been everywhere this summer in the Chicago area, and some of them bite. But why is this happening?
An inmate in South Carolina was able to briefly break out of jail using only a pencil, according to law enforcement officials.
After two more beluga whales died at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, including another whale rescued from defunct Canadian theme park Marineland, there are questions about what's behind the deaths.
Two bystanders were shot, one fatally, in Lockport Township, Illinois, Wednesday night. The woman killed has been identified as 31-year-old Michelle Robinson.
A woman is dead, and a man was injured after a shooting in Lockport Township, Illinois, on Wednesday night.
After two more beluga whales died at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, including another whale rescued from defunct Canadian theme park Marineland, there are questions about what's behind the deaths.
Flies have been everywhere this summer in the Chicago area, and some of them bite. But why is this happening?
The stage is set and the air is humid as rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, prepares to hold the first of two Chicago concerts at Solider Field Thursday night.
Thomas Ross allegedly tried to get his campaign manager to plant cocaine and Adderall on his opponent, federal prosecutors in Missouri said.
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?
Red flags about a family behind two funeral homes and crematories shut down by the state for mishandling bodies were missed in part because two different agencies regulate the death industry in Illinois.
Chicago (78-62) dropped nine games behind Milwaukee in the NL Central. It also remained one game back of Philadelphia for the top NL wild card.
The White Sox had several chances to score in the eighth, but came up empty.
Advocate Children's Hospital flipped the script this week, having four pediatric patients sign autographs for Cubs baseball players before a game at Wrigley Field.
Sean Burke (8-6) allowed one hit and walked four with six strikeouts in 5 2/3 scoreless innings for the win after walking a career-high eight in just three innings in his last start.
A day after hitting a franchise-record nine homers, Chicago was held to three singles and three doubles on a muggy night at Wrigley Field.
Thomas Ross allegedly tried to get his campaign manager to plant cocaine and Adderall on his opponent, federal prosecutors in Missouri said.
A chiropractor from Batavia, Illinois, pleaded guilty Thursday to felony counts related to secretly videotaping patients, including children, as they took off their clothes in his office.
Chicago police on Thursday issued a community alert about a robbery on a Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train on the Near West Side this past weekend.
Two people are dead and at least five others are injured, including three officers, after a shooting near 15 East Grant Street Wednesday afternoon in downtown Minneapolis, according to police. The suspected shooter is also dead.
Surveillance video shows what appears to be a smash-and-grab burglary at a pizzeria in the southwest Chicago suburb of Frankfort this week.
