South suburban youth football league wins appeal after losing ranking due to records error
The Midwest Hawks Youth Football organization of Country Club Hills can now play in the playoffs. But there is a catch.
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The Midwest Hawks Youth Football organization of Country Club Hills can now play in the playoffs. But there is a catch.
DeMar DeRozan scored 33 points, becoming just the 50th player in NBA history to reach 20,000.
The Hawks lost in tough fashion giving up a goal in the final minute to miss out an overtime in a 6-5 loss to Edmonton.
The Bears were impressive Monday with their first road win of the season, but can they back it up on a Sunday?
Patrick Kane scored on a rebound with 3:11 remaining to tie at 5, but the Blackhawks ended up falling short.
The move provides an opportunity for Trevis Gipson and rookie Dominque Robinson but also means losing a mentor and a friend.
The Maroons men's soccer team is ranked No. 1 in the country in Division III.
The Bulls led by as many as 24 points in the second half before Pacers guard Buddy Hield hit three 3-pointers that cut the deficit to 95-91 late in the third quarter.
The Eagles will send the Bears a 4th round draft pick in the deal.
Taylor Raddysh, Philipp Kurashev and Jonathan Toews also scored in the Blackhawks' fourth straight victory.
A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld an Illinois ban on semiautomatic weapons, keeping in place a law passed largely in response to a deadly Independence Day parade shooting.
Illinois American Water and Aqua Illinois are both seeking rate increases that would raise monthly bills by as much as $28, while their parent companies seek regulatory approval to merge — a deal a consumer watchdog says would give one company control of nearly all regulated water customers in the state.
Francesca Hong has not backed away from calls to defund and abolish the police, raise taxes on the wealthy, and create a state-owned bank — positions now facing voters in a state Trump has carried twice.
The area's top federal prosecutor, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Andrew Boutros, was called before a judge Thursday for violating a secrecy order.
Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner is suspending his campaign against GOP Sen. Susan Collins, after a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her five years ago.
Chicago remained the most bed bug-treated city in the country, according to Orkin's latest annual rankings covering a full year of residential and commercial treatment data.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul this week warned residents cleaning up from last month's storms to be on the lookout for scams.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday signed several new consumer protections into law, including a ban on junk fees.
CBS News Chicago has learned that Illinois home insurance premiums are not only higher than the nation's average, but going up faster too.
As an alternative to legalizing video gambling terminals citywide, Bally's offered to open slot machine lounges at O'Hare and Midway, saying the move would replace the $6.8 million the city budgeted from VGTs.
In a major turnaround in the opioid crisis, overdose deaths are falling across Chicago and Cook County.
The north Chicago suburb of Glenview became the latest Illinois municipality this week to confirm mosquitoes testing positive for the West Nile virus this year.
Environmental and community groups are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to act on a petition challenging U.S. Steel Gary Works operating permit renewal.
In the four years since Roe v. Wade was overturned and Illinois became a destination for abortion care, Illinois providers and advocates have rebuilt the state's infrastructure to support the tens of thousands of people who travel to the state for abortion services every year.
June is National Aphasia Awareness Month, raising awareness of a disorder that affects a person's ability to speak, write, and understand both spoken and written language.
Illinois American Water and Aqua Illinois are both seeking rate increases that would raise monthly bills by as much as $28, while their parent companies seek regulatory approval to merge — a deal a consumer watchdog says would give one company control of nearly all regulated water customers in the state.
The Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general from several states secured a right-to-repair settlement Wednesday with agriculture equipment giant Deere & Co. — commonly known as John Deere — that requires the company to let farmers and independent shops fix their own equipment.
Chicago Soul Café opened Monday at 6248 S. St. Lawrence Ave.
The Chicago Bears this weekend said they are assessing land at Wolf Lake Terminals in Hammond, Indiana, for a possible new stadium.
As an alternative to legalizing video gambling terminals citywide, Bally's offered to open slot machine lounges at O'Hare and Midway, saying the move would replace the $6.8 million the city budgeted from VGTs.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra's summer home in Highland Park reopened after a $70 million gut renovation that redesigned the stage to reduce sound levels harmful to musicians.
Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh pop star best known for singing the chart-topping power ballad "Total Eclipse of the Heart" in 1983, has died. She was 75.
The nominations for the 78th annual Primetime Emmy Awards were announced Wednesday morning in Los Angeles, with the final season of HBO Max's "Hacks" setting a new record for the most nominations in a single year for a comedy series.
Nikki Glaser, Michelle Wolf, Ali Siddiq and Bert Kreischer are among the comedians coming to the city to perform from Nov. 5 to Nov. 15.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce were married as they celebrated their wedding with hundreds of guests Friday at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Meteorologist Laura Bannon has the weekend forecast.
CBS News Chicago has reached out to ICE to address the number of local arrests.
Google will start flagging AI generated ads, with some additional labels depending on the regulations where you are.
The University of Chicago Law School is banning first-year students from using phones and laptops in the classroom as part of a broader strategy to curb AI usage.
Some scattered showers possible but mostly sunny and cooler by the lake Friday. Highs in the low 80s.
The FBI is now offering a $50,000 reward to find a fugitive who is wanted for the 2021 murder of Illinois Army National Guardsman Chrys Carvajal.
The University of Chicago Law School is banning first-year students from using phones and laptops in the classroom as part of a broader strategy to curb AI usage.
A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld an Illinois ban on semiautomatic weapons, keeping in place a law passed largely in response to a deadly Independence Day parade shooting.
According to the U.S. Marshals, the homicide suspect was taken to a hospital and will be extradited back to Chicago once he is medically cleared.
As a bill to regulate e-bikes and e-scooters sits on Gov. JB Pritzker's desk awaiting his signature, other state leaders are trying to spread the word of what parents should know if their kids want one.
New Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke is fighting innocence claims more often than her predecessor, Kim Foxx, and hiring outside counsel to help.
On Tuesday evening, CBS News Chicago reported on wild weeds taking over a property in the South Side's Washington Heights neighborhood, and neighbors who said they spent months trying to get help.
Kevin Jackson was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent 22 years in prison before he was freed. Now he has realized his dream by starting a landscaping business. But his quest to be declared innocent continues.
The weeds keep growing, and the complaints keep piling up, but neighbors on one street in the Washington Heights community on Chicago's South Side say nothing is changing.
City officials unveil underground stormwater storage units to reduce flooding on the West Side
Conversations about how Caitlin Clark is treated on a basketball court can be polarizing as fans, players, coaches, pundits and even the U.S. Congress has an opinion about what should or shouldn't happen in regards to the WNBA All-Star.
Caleb Durbin hit a two-run homer to help the surging Boston Red Sox top the Chicago White Sox 2-1 for their sixth consecutive victory.
Jeremiah Jackson hit a two-run double in the bottom of the eighth inning to lift the Baltimore Orioles to a 3-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Thursday.
The WNBA will be holding some marquee All-Star events at Chicago's newly opened Obama Presidential Center later this month.
Pete Crow-Armstrong hit two of Chicago's five home runs and the Cubs outslugged the Baltimore Orioles 9-7 on Wednesday night.
The Chicago Transit Authority this week released new crime statistics indicating that violent crime is down on the transit system.
An 18-year-old man was facing charges Thursday after police said he fired a gun into a home in the south Chicago suburb of Oak Forest.
Thieves left empty-handed in an attempted crash-and-grab burglary in Chicago's Budlong Woods neighborhood early Thursday, police said.
A 16-year-old boy was charged this week in a mass shooting that left three people dead in Chicago's West Chatham community in 2024.
The men accused in a crime spree that involved an attack on a CBS News Chicago crew last week were back in court Wednesday morning.
