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CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine explains why it is only a mixed blessing because the money has to come from somewhere, and the Rauner administration today is warning of "painful decisions" ahead.
CBS 2's Derrick Blakley reports safety is definitely being emphasized at Navy Pier, along with all the celebrating.
A Northwest Indiana man would like to find the author of a letter - a love letter attached to helium-filled balloons that just happened to drift into his yard on Christmas Eve.
Not nearly a white Christmas, and now a snow-less New Year's Eve. It is fine for some, but not everyone.
A Megabus full of passengers traveling from Chicago to Atlanta was taken out of service after an Indiana state trooper stopped the bus for speeding and leaning to the right Wednesday morning, police said.
Police are investigating a fatal shooting Wednesday afternoon in the Avalon Park neighborhood on the South Side.
The race is on for the first baby of 2015, reports WBBM's Mariam Sobh.
This is the biggest day of the year for Doolin's, the River West party supply store founded in the 1950s.
Governor Quinn has added three more names to his clemency list, men convicted of what were then crimes more than 170 years ago.
A Chicago driver accused of sexually assaulting an Uber passenger was not authorized to drive for the ride-sharing company and used an account created in his wife's name to pick up customers, the company said Wednesday.
Cardinal Francis George, the retired head of the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, has been dropped from an experimental cancer drug trial, after it proved ineffective in treating the cancer in his right kidney.
Do we really have to choose between our gluttony and our political beliefs? Boy do I hope not...
Asked to think back through his 60-year career in law enforcement and say what stood out, Art Bilek barely hesitated: "The biggest thing that I did was naming 'El Chapo' Guzman, that dirty stinking rat, as Public Enemy Number One."
The robbery happened Tuesday at a First Merit Bank branch at 5450 Wolf Rd. at 4:10 p.m., according to a statement from Western Springs police.
The St. Louis Rams did not have an awful season in 2014, but a 6-10 record isn't what they were hoping for. It was a season filled with close losses, wins over big-time teams, and yet another season-ending injury to quarterback Sam Bradford. The Rams have a lot to think about and some good things going forward so 2014 proved a lot.
