Two Years After Stroke, Sen. Kirk Making Strides
CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine visits with Mark Kirk in Washington and asks: How's it going?
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CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine visits with Mark Kirk in Washington and asks: How's it going?
On this March 3, voting is already underway for the March 18 primary election with a couple of firsts involved.
More than three weeks ahead of the governor's budget address, a government watchdog group has issued its own plan for bringing state finances back to good health.
Students at Chicago Public Schools begin taking the ISAT exam this week, but many teachers are refusing to administer the test, and many parents say they won't let their kids take part.
As Russian troops surround a Ukrainian military base in Crimea today, world leaders along with Senator Dick Durbin are urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to withdraw his military. Durbin addressed the Ukrainian community in Chicago Sunday.
The Chicago elections board says in the city, early voting will take place at 51 sites.
About 46,000 applications have been received so far, police said, putting the state on track to receive nearly 300,000 applications this year -- about 100,000 fewer than the agency's original projections.
McCarthy acknowledged it took several months after he took over the Police Department in 2011 to see how splintered street gangs had become.
Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth will be heading to Russia next week, along with Americans who are competing in the Paralympic Games in Sochi.
Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett has threatened to seek to remove the state certification of teachers who refuse to administer next week's Illinois Standards Achievement Test, after many teachers planned a boycott.
Cook County's Sheriff is talking this afternoon about a lawsuit that claims guards at the county jail have created what's being described as a sadistic culture behind bars.
President Barack Obama celebrated a special young man and a special program on Thursday.
CBS 2 obtained a list of about 2,100 claims made by pothole victims from 2011 through 2013, which totaled about $1.2 million. Only about $217,000 was ever paid out, and half these filed claims are unresolved. CBS 2's Dave Savini reports.
Arthur Bishop was appointed last month to succeed the late Richard Calica at the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
The Youth Guidance Becoming a Man, or BAM, program first hit CBS 2's radar screen when a University of Chicago Crime Lab study showed a 44 percent reduction in violent-crime arrests among its participants. CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports.
