West Side Officials Say North Lawndale Obama Library Site Would Have Biggest Impact
West Side elected officials are using this president's day to raise support for an Obama Presidential Library on the West Side.
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West Side elected officials are using this president's day to raise support for an Obama Presidential Library on the West Side.
Friends, family and those she served are saying goodbye to 16th Ward Alderman JoAnn Thompson.
It's down to the wire now for people who don't yet have medical insurance. The deadline to sign up for the Affordable Care Act is midnight and those without insurance could face penalties.
Body cameras like those tested in Dallas can take the "he said/she said" out of police work. CBS 2's Roseanne Tellez reports.
Leslie Munger reportedly won't comply, over legal concerns. It's a setback for the governor's latest initiative, and it comes from a fellow Republican he appointed less than a month ago.
With Ald. Bob Fioretti (2nd) aiming to oust Mayor Rahm Emanuel in the upcoming election, six candidates are vying to replace Fioretti as alderman, and will face plenty of challenges in a ward where boundaries have completely changed since the last election.
New Jersey's Republican governor spoke Thursday before nearly 1,000 people at a Lincoln Day dinner held in suburban Chicago.
With the election less than two weeks away, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his closest challenger are now fighting it out on the airwaves.
Saying he wants the state to do more to keep people out of prison, Gov. Bruce Rauner has formed a commission to study possible changes to the state's criminal justice system.
Some sleazy tactics have surfaced in at least one race for alderman on the South Side.
With their final debate over and done with, Mayor Emanuel's opponents are charting the next steps in their efforts to unseat him, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
One of the treasures of Cook County, the Cook County Forest Preserve District, celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. On Wednesday, county commissioners paid tribute to the district's founders.
Nicole Gross' 8-year-old son Chase was diagnosed with epilepsy when he was six months old. When medication didn't stop his seizures -- as many as 4,000 a day -- she and her sons moved to Colorado, where medical marijuana was legal and could help Chase, leaving her husband behind in Naperville.
President Barack Obama will visit Chicago next week to designate the historic Pullman neighborhood – one of the first "company towns" in the U.S. – as a national monument.
When former West Side state Rep. Derrick Smith was arrested in 2012 for accepting a $7,000 bribe, he swore to the FBI that he "did it for the people." That's the same reasoning federal prosecutors used Monday, asking that Smith receive a "a significant period of imprisonment" that "vindicates his constituents."
