Matteson Firefighter Dies While Responding To Medical Emergency
The 49-year-old first-responder rushed to the scene of a Matteson retail store, where a shopper required CPR, Fire Chief Chris Schwalbe said in a prepared statement Friday evening.
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The 49-year-old first-responder rushed to the scene of a Matteson retail store, where a shopper required CPR, Fire Chief Chris Schwalbe said in a prepared statement Friday evening.
They've gone public with a letter to state and local politicians to find the $480 million needed to fund public schools and avoid mid-year budget cuts. CBS 2's Dorothy Tucker reports.
Ousted Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy appeared Friday at a public event with his former boss, Mayor Emanuel, and Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez.
Interim Police Supt. John Escalante talks with CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot about the Laquan McDonald controversy.
Stacy Fiebelkorn subjected her rabbits, alpacas, llamas, goats, chickens, turkeys, ducks, mini-horses, horses and mini-donkeys to cruel treatment by starving and abusing them at Kane County farms, prosecutors said.
Lincolnshire Police school resource officer Thomas Branick says officials elected not to impose a lockdown. There is no reason to think any student was in danger, he said.
Hillary Clinton, Sanders' rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, has called for a federal investigation into Laquan McDonald's death but has stopped short of asking Mayor Rahm Emanuel to resign.
About 200 activists made 16 laps around City Hall on Friday, demanding a federal investigation of how Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez handled the Laquan McDonald case. They circled the building once for each time McDonald was shot by Officer Jason Van Dyke last year.
An outbreak of E. coli linked to Chipotle has expanded to nine states, with a total of 52 reported illnesses. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday seven additional people were sickened, including in three more states -- Illinois, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
The trees carried by the Mackinaw will be distributed to 20 organizations that will provide Christmas trees for the less fortunate.
A momentous occasion almost went unnoticed after steady rains in the Chicago area last week.
City officials have released additional surveillance video in the Laquan McDonald case, but the video raises more questions than it answers, due to what's not seen. Surveillance video from a Burger King near where McDonald was killed has a mysterious 80-minute gap covering the time when he was shot.
It's going to be a great weekend to put up your holiday decorations, with mostly clear skies and temperatures well above normal through the weekend, and well into next week.
Firefighters responded to a fire in the attic of a 2 1/2-story house in the 4000 block of West Harrison Street shortly after 7 a.m.
The continued tension over the Laquan McDonald case was a hot topic Friday morning at an annual prayer breakfast attended by some of the state's leading politicians, business leaders, and clergy.
