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ow would you like to have somebody else make your mortgage payments for a year? Almost 400 Chicago area homeowners have signed up for a chance to make it happen, CBS 2's Mike Parker reports.
With only seconds to react, a 14-year-old girl's quick thinking helped her and her brother escape from harm. CBS 2's Pamela Jones reports.
Two Iowa men accused of transporting nearly 10,000 grams of methamphetamine through DuPage County were ordered held on $1 million cash bond Wednesday.
Gov. Pat Quinn's administration is defending its decision allowing community college students to take an "educational" tour of one of the state's maximum-security prison while at the same time continuing to bar reporters from such visits as a security risk.
Chanting and carrying American flags, Jackson and dozens of protestors marched to Sensata to object to the purported outsourcing of jobs to China.
A parent says the instructor watched his daughter and a would-be rapist walking away from her school and was concerned enough to take photos of the man – yet did not alert police. CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli reports.
Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock said Wednesday that he is standing by his statement that when a woman becomes pregnant during a rape "that's something God intended." He says some people have twisted the meaning of his comment.
The Emanuel administration highlighted new industry partnerships with city college campuses, which are becoming increasingly vocational.
Once again, a Republican politician has said something extreme about rape. Extreme and extremely stupid.
For seven years, Shemaraya Mannie was a victim of domestic violence.
As City Council budget hearings continued Wednesday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel was trying to deflect aldermanic calls for more police officers than already planned.
The Illinois Secretary of State's office said Wednesday that about 200 corporations - many of them small businesses - have been caught up in a scam that looks official.
The first thing the bartender asked me after I walked into Owen & Engine was if I wanted the Tuesday burger special: a burger, beer and shot of bourbon. It's as if he looked into my soul and instantly knew I was both a glutton and an alcoholic at the same time...
When will the fat cats in the government realize how important it is for little girls dressed like skunks to carry guns, Taurus? It's up to your ingenuity to convince them!
Five people were injured --- two critically -- in a traffic crash on the Northwest Side early Wednesday afternoon.
