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The undercover operation by the city's Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection investigated 409 tax preparers, targeting predatory businesses that dip into taxpayers' refunds with misleading fine print, according to a statement from Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office.
How does getting more money sound? Laurence Kotlikoff, Philip Moeller and Paul Solomon have three tips for getting the most out of your social security.
Thousands of people have lost millions dollars on the newest telemarketing scams that prey on some of our worst fears. Law enforcement officials describe them as ruthless and relentless.
he temperatures are playing in role in a portion of the Lakefront Trail blocked off from North Avenue to Oak Street.
Residents of the LaGrange Highlands area of unincorporated southwest Cook County will get a dedicated sheriff's police squad car while prosecutors try to determine if felony charges can be brought against a man who smashed the windows in 13 cars with a black metal pipe.
Three people are accused in a shooting that injured two people last week during a drug deal gone bad in northwest suburban Wheeling.
A mentally ill suburban loner who mailed fake anthrax, shotgun shells and death threats to Chicago politicians was sentenced to 12 1/2 years in prison Tuesday by a federal judge who called him a "cowardly" and "disrespectful" paranoid.
County Commissioner Jesus "Chuy" Garcia says another teachers strike is likely next fall if Emanuel is re-elected.
A Geneva woman charged in a Valentine's Day mass murder plot in Halifax, Nova Scotia made her first appearance in court Tuesday.
CBS 2's Derrick Blakley reports no one's ever said the streets around Riverside-Brookfield High School are paved with gold, but school officials are hoping to change that.
Hammond Police and the Lake County Coroner are looking for the family of a 58-year-old man who was killed in a hit-and-run crash two weekends ago.
Never before in the centuries of golf history, has a seven putt on single hole been considered so impressive.
Three men who were found frozen to death in a vacant Northwest Side Avondale neighborhood last month have been identified.
A senior citizen who house is being foreclosed on made a last ditch effort today to try to stay in his house as protesters outside the bank made their feelings known, reports WBBM's Bernie Tafoya.
