CTA Bus Crashes Into KFC On Western Avenue On Near West Side
A Chicago Transit Authority bus crashed into a Kentucky Fried Chicken on Western Avenue in the Near West Side's Tri-Taylor community late Friday.
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A Chicago Transit Authority bus crashed into a Kentucky Fried Chicken on Western Avenue in the Near West Side's Tri-Taylor community late Friday.
A CTA bus crash left shattered glass and a downed light pole in the West Loop early Tuesday morning.
A CTA bus crashed into a building in the Cragin neighborhood Friday.
Emergency crews responded to a crash involving two school buses in Justice, Illinois.
A bus crashed into a pawn shop in Indianapolis Tuesday morning.
A crash involving a school bus was reported in suburban Downers Grove Monday morning at Butterfield Road and Downers Drive.
Startling new details have been uncovered about the church bus crash on the Indiana Toll Road last month that left several people injured and the bus driver charged with drunk driving.
A bus crash in Chicago's Goose Island neighborhood has sent 15 people to the hospital, according to Chicago fire officials.
A New Mexico hospital increased the death toll to six from a crash involving a Greyhound bus and tractor trailer.
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The Humboldt Broncos were en route to a game when their team bus collided with a semi truck in Saskatchewan.
A bus crash was reported Thursday morning outside of Woodstock in McHenry County.
A bus carrying cruise ship passengers to Mayan ruins in eastern Mexico flipped over on a highway early Tuesday.
Many in Chicago's Taiwanese-American community are mourning the death of one of their leaders: a 38-year-old photographer and artist who was killed in a bus crash at a convention in Australia.
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A 59-year-old man died Sunday morning when his car struck a school bus in the Austin neighborhood.
A school bus carrying a Northwest Indiana High School basketball team overturned after it was sideswiped by a woman who spilled her drink.
Eight people were hurt when a car rear-ended a CTA bus in Brighton Park Sunday evening on the Southwest Side, authorities said.
A 21-year-old woman was killed, and at least four other people were injured Monday morning, when a charter bus crashed on the inbound Stevenson Expressway.
Court records for the driver of the ill-fated Gary church bus reveal a long and shocking disregard for basic driving regulations that stretches back almost two decades.
Ten students suffered minor injuries when two school buses collided on an outing Tuesday to the Brookfield Zoo.
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Eight people were injured in a bus crash Tuesday afternoon in the Beverly neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
Nine people were hurt when a van went through a red light and struck a CTA bus Tuesday afternoon on the Near West Side.
José Caballero lined a two-run homer, Gerrit Cole pitched into the sixth inning and the New York Yankees hung on to top the Chicago Cubs 2-1 on Sunday.
Sunday marked the annual Royal Court Coronation for the Bud Billiken Parade, in a 77-year-long tradition.
The Chicago Bears were off on Sunday, having wrapped up their first week of training camp.
Slow-roasted beef was piled high in Chicago's Jefferson Memorial Park on Sunday afternoon.
Two Chicago Catholic parishes celebrated their partnership with a taco fiesta on Sunday.
A new court ruling will keep Illinois from having to turn over its full list of voter information to the federal government.
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias officially announced his campaign for mayor of Chicago on Sunday. He said, "Chicago should never become a city reserved only for the wealthy,"
Investigators are probing whether Iranian hackers are behind this week's malicious cyber activity against water systems in Minnesota. If they are found to be the culprits, it would not be the first time.
The U.S. and Israel plan to hit Iran's energy infrastructure as soon as this weekend, although no final decision has been made, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
Gov. JB Pritzker signed sweeping regulations Friday aimed at social media companies and cracking down on "addictive algorithms" that keep kids glued to their screens.
The Trump administration is taking aim at power grid operator PJM Interconnection over rising electricity bills that affect Illinois and Indiana residents.
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.
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A new Northwestern Medicine study on long COVID shows women show more neurological symptoms than men.
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Chicago just barely made the top 20 in the American College of Sports Medicine's 2026 ranking of the country's fittest cities.
In a major turnaround in the opioid crisis, overdose deaths are falling across Chicago and Cook County.
Stella's Diner in Chicago's East Lakeview community has gone out of business.
A Wisconsin appeals court reversed a lower court ruling that had declared Act 10 unconstitutional, keeping the 2011 law limiting public workers' collective bargaining rights in place as unions prepare to appeal to the state Supreme Court.
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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.
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If weather forces an evacuation, shelter sites are located at Grant Park North, Grant Park South, and Millennium Lakeside Garages, accessible through the vehicle entrance on Michigan Avenue.
Grant Park was filled with tens of thousands of people Thursday for the start of Lollapalooza, as warm weather greeted festivalgoers on day one of the four-day music festival.
Academy Award-winning Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard has died in a motorcycle crash.
Actor William Shatner and his daughter, Melanie Shatner Gretsch, recall how they helped each other as they fought Stage 4 cancer side by side.
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Slow-roasted beef was piled high in Chicago’s Jefferson Memorial Park on Sunday afternoon.
Two Chicago Catholic parishes celebrated their partnership with a taco fiesta on Sunday.
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In announcing his campaign, Giannoulias said, "Chicago should never become a city reserved only for the wealthy."
Stella's Diner in Chicago's East Lakeview community has gone out of business.
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Sunday marked the annual Royal Court Coronation for the Bud Billiken Parade, in a 77-year-long tradition.
Slow-roasted beef was piled high in Chicago's Jefferson Memorial Park on Sunday afternoon.
A clean energy initiative on the South Side of Chicago is increasing access to solar energy and electric vehicle charging stations, and community members say it's making a difference.
A glitch in the Illinois Tollway system earlier this month left about 100,000 drivers with unexpected warnings about unpaid tolls, some dating back about a year.
Chicago's Office of Emergency Management, which oversees roughly 200 traffic aides, says two were seriously injured by drivers this summer — leaving many uneasy on the job as Lollapalooza brings heavy traffic downtown.
Shavonne Worthy said she visited her mother's grave at Oakridge-Glen Oaks Cemetery in Hillside and found an empty hole where the headstone had stood for nearly 10 years — and the cemetery's new owner told her it was removed intentionally.
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José Caballero lined a two-run homer, Gerrit Cole pitched into the sixth inning and the New York Yankees hung on to top the Chicago Cubs 2-1 on Sunday.
The Chicago Bears were off on Sunday, having wrapped up their first week of training camp.
The Chicago White Sox beat the AL-leading Tampa Bay Rays 9-1 on Sunday.
Lewandowski, who made the move from FC Barcelona in a two-year deal with Chicago, equalized in the 20th minute off a screamer from outside the box that tied the game at 1.
The Chicago Cubs evened their series with the New York Yankees with a 5-2 win on Saturday night.
Savannah Guthrie said she and her family have been "in agony and despair ever since" her mother Nancy's disappearance in February.
A popular Little Italy neighborhood bar was the target of an early morning break-in this week. While the owners said they are upset, they are responding with some levity.
Three men accused of attacking a CBS News Chicago crew during a crime spree last month pleaded not guilty to the charges on Friday.
The Illinois Prisoner Review Board ruled Friday that Sean Grayson, convicted of second-degree murder in the 2024 killing of Sonya Massey, will remain in prison despite a medical release application citing advanced colon cancer.
Two Mundelein-area men are facing charges connected to the murder of a man who disappeared last November.
