Aldermen Approve Plan To Hike Minimum Wage
Aldermen have overwhelmingly approved a plan to gradually raise the city's minimum wage to $13 an hour over the next five years.
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Aldermen have overwhelmingly approved a plan to gradually raise the city's minimum wage to $13 an hour over the next five years.
Aldermen have set the stage to hike the city's minimum wage to $13 an hour over the next four-and-a-half years, under a measure the City Council is expected to approve Tuesday.
Elizabeth Lauten worked for Walsh, a Republican U.S. representative from the northwest suburbs, in 2011, a Walsh representative tells CBS 2.
George W. Bush appeared Monday at Anderson's Bookshop to sell the biography he wrote about his father, former President George H. W. Bush.
A pair of immigrant mothers trying to keep their families together visited the Thompson Center on Monday, hoping for an audience with Gov. Pat Quinn – or, better yet, a pardon for their husbands.
Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy says the day when some Chicago police officers will start to wear body cameras is getting closer, reports WBBM's Bernie Tafoya.
Chicago's new city treasurer, Kurt Summers, was sworn in Monday morning, to fill the balance of the term of Stephanie Neely, who left to take a job in the private sector.
Saying he'll get the job done, Cook County Clerk David Orr has endorsed Cook County Commissioner Jesus "Chuy" Garcia for mayor, reports WBBM's Veronica Carter.
Rev. Jesse Jackson led a protest of the Ferguson, Missouri Michael Brown decision Saturday, blocking traffic on Chicago's South Side and demanding the federal government do what the grand jury did not.
Since video gambling began in Illinois two years ago, the slot-like terminals have been showing up in places lawmakers never imagined — floral shops, laundromats, liquor stores and gas stations. They're also now the main attraction at dozens of storefront bistros and cafes geared toward women.
We heard what President Obama said Tuesday here in Chicago, but what does he really think? CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine spoke with someone who does.
Gov. Pat Quinn has taken action on 311 clemency petitions, granting less than half for crimes that stretch back to the early 1970s.
Governor-Elect Bruce Rauner is asking for a 20 percent budget cut from lame-duck Governor Pat Quinn.
President Barack Obama is expected in Chicago to discuss his executive actions that could extend legal protection to as many as 5 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.
Seven more challengers got in before Monday's 5 p.m. filing deadline. They joined two others who filed when Emanuel did last week, when the period opened.
