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A 15-year-old Valparaiso High School student was in custody Thursday at the Porter County Juvenile Detention Center after allegedly explaining to police that she called in a bomb threat at Valparaiso High School to get out of taking a test.
At the XS Tennis Club in Kenwood, the youngsters who are being trained there -- on the same courts where Taylor Townsend has trained and practiced -- are her biggest fans.
Business owners are getting calls claiming to be ComEd saying they owe big bucks and they must pay up -- or else. CBS 2's Chris Martinez reports.
The most recent fatal shooting occurred Thursday evening in the South Side Englewood neighborhood.
The modernist-style complex in Highland Park sold for $1.06 million on Thursday, according to a published report.
An Ogden International eighth-grader says a group of peers used a popular multi-player video game app, "Clash of Clans," to target him because he's Jewish. One team allegedly dubbed itself "the Jew Incinerator Team."
Opening statements Thursday at an Illinois lawmaker's bribery trial focused on a campaign worker-turned-FBI informant, referred to in court only by a first name, Pete, who secretly recorded state Rep. Derrick Smith allegedly seeking a $7,000 bribe.
A DeKalb County judge has rejected four former Northern Illinois University fraternity members' claim that the state's hazing statute is unconstitutional.
Carly Rousso, 19, was charged in the death of 5-year-old Jaclyn Santos-Sacramento. Prosecutors say she huffed an aerosol can of keyboard cleaner on Labor Day 2012, before plowing her parents' Lexus into the Sacramento family on a sidewalk in Highland Park.
A shooting on the West Side prompted a lockdown at an elementary school in the North Lawndale neighborhood Thursday afternoon.
Police learned that the father of a student "made a verbal threat of violence against a minor child" who attends the school after the boy was involved in an argument with his son. Police do not know what the argument was about, but said both boys are middle-school students.
Does McDonald's food actually rot?
Thanks to a miserable winter that broke records for cold and snow, the city already has received more claims than ever for damage from potholes, and is on pace to fill the most potholes ever in one year.
The Emanuel administration on Thursday sought to downplay a published report its highly-touted Divvy bike rental program was operating at a deficit taxpayers might have to make up.
The 21-year-old man was found shot multiple times in the 2400 block of East 74th Street about 12:30 p.m., police News Affairs Officer Michael Sullivan said.
