Boy, 15, Pulled From Ventilation Shaft After Grate Collapses
Flossmoor firefighters worked to free the teen outside the Flossmoor library, where the accident occurred.
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Flossmoor firefighters worked to free the teen outside the Flossmoor library, where the accident occurred.
Michael Smith, 23, was charged with misdemeanor aggravated assault following the 11 p.m. incident outside the Dixmoor Village Hall, Cook County Sheriff's office spokeswoman Cara Smith said.
After Jess Owens Community Academy in West Pullman was closed last summer, relatives of the Olympic Gold Medalist were disappointed to see his name torn off the building.
The CTA's worker union says the sleeping operator whose train crashed at O'Hare on Monday had worked 69 hours the previous week -- a claim the transit agency denies. CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports.
Demonstrators and public officials are seething about BP's oil spill on the Indiana lakefront, but CBS 2's Ed Curran reports the damage could have been worse.
Two people are in custody after an off-duty Chicago Police officer shot one of three men who tried to break into his home Friday afternoon in the Far South Side Roseland neighborhood.
Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon, who is running for Illinois State Comptroller, had some praise for Gov. Pat Quinn's budget plan on Friday, but she stopped short of endorsing his plan to make a 2011 income tax hike permanent.
A Plainfield mother has taken up the fight to change what she sees as a loophole in the state's child sex abuse laws, after her daughter's experience with the justice system in Will County.
First, a DuPage County Sheriff's Deputy administered Narcan to a 32-year old woman having a heroin overdose Saturday near Villa Park. Then, Wednesday night, two Hanover Park police officers saved the life of a 29-year old man.
Opening Day is next week for the White Sox and the Cubs, so Chicago police and each team's alderman were reaching out to fans Friday to prepare them for a few changes in store this year.
Which is worse?
The Windy City's aquatic sign of spring, Wendella tour boats and water taxis, finally made it down the Chicago River for the first time this year, stalled for two weeks by thick ice in the harbor at Dolton.
Even from miles above the Earth's surface, it was clear this winter was one of the most severe we've ever experienced, and not just for Chicago.
The station has been closed since early Monday, when a Blue Line train derailed and smashed into an escalator at the end of the platform, injuring 37 people.
Brian Urlacher's indifference toward being honored by the Bears says a lot.
