Police: Alcohol A Factor In Fatal West Side Crash
Police are investigating whether alcohol was involved in a West Side crash that killed a Cicero woman and left a car split in half.
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Police are investigating whether alcohol was involved in a West Side crash that killed a Cicero woman and left a car split in half.
Chicago police are dealing with the loss of one of their own, an off-duty officer was killed Friday night, after her vehicle flipped on the Skyway at 10:40 p.m. Friday.
Students and faculty of Carl Sandburg High School in Orland Park are mourning the loss of Bruce Scheidegger, the school's athletic director, who was killed in a car accident over the weekend.
It was just before 11 p.m., 22 year old Danielle Pisterzi headed southbound on the Tri-State Tollway.
A woman who had the railroad crossing gate come down on her SUV while traveling westbound Friday in North Chicago escaped injury when a freight train clipped her vehicle.
Two women were killed Saturday night following a car crash in west suburban Lyons.
Two men were killed and a woman was injured in a traffic crash early Sunday in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood on the Far Southwest Side, police said.
Two suspects were in custody, and police were searching for a third, after an SUV that was fleeing from police flipped over in Roscoe Village.
A car crashed into a jewelry store early Saturday in the North Side Albany Park neighborhood.
A Chicago Police officer is recovering in a hospital after a serious car accident on the city's South Side.
The family of a woman killed in a 2011 traffic accident is angry that the driver who caused the wreck got off relatively easy, even though he allegedly was using his phone at the time. CBS 2's Pam Zekman reports.
A woman was hospitalized in critical condition after a vehicle crashed into a beauty salon Thursday evening on the West Side.
Four members of a prominent Naperville family have been killed in a tragic traffic accident while on vacation in India.
Teams were working to restore power to a section of southwest suburban Lemont following a power outage caused by a car that crashed into a utility pole.
An 83-year-old South Side woman died Thursday, nearly a week after she was struck by a vehicle while crossing the street near her home.
A Riverdale woman has been charged after she allegedly plowed a car into a Chili's restaurant, which burst into flames injuring her and seven patrons inside the Far South Side eatery late Saturday.
A motorist and her passenger were injured when the vehicle she was driving crashed into a corner store Saturday afternoon in the Brainerd neighborhood on the South Side.
Three people were injured Tuesday night when a car crashed into an oncoming van, apparently during an attempted drive-by shooting.
Eleven people were hospitalized following a traffic crash on the Southwest Side Sunday afternoon in the Gage Park neighborhood.
A witness described a "surreal" scene Friday afternoon as a car turned the wrong way at a busy Loop intersection, caused an accident, then struck other vehicles and pedestrians in an attempt to get away.
A medical examiner says something went wrong with professional wrestler "Macho Man" Randy Savage's heart before he crashed his car and declared the cause of death as heart disease.
A third person has died from an early Sunday head-on crash apparently caused by a driver going the wrong direction in Lyons.
A 60-year-old man died Monday after a crashing a vehicle in west suburban McCook.
A teenage driver was killed, and a 2-year-old child narrowly escaped death or serious injury, when a car went airborne and smack into the child's bedroom in far west suburban Batavia Township.
An 18-year-old man died Tuesday after being injured April 30 when the alleged drunk driver of the sports-utility vehicle he was riding in crashed head-on into a car.
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.
East Chicago, Indiana is being placed on a precautionary boil water advisory starting Monday morning for planned installations that could affect water safety.
A new Northwestern Medicine study on long COVID shows women show more neurological symptoms than men.
A lettuce supplier to fast-food giant Taco Bell has been linked to a nationwide cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened thousands of people, the CDC said.
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.
The changing developments at 1800 N. Clybourn Ave. represent a microcosm of 40 years of changing development priorities on the Clybourn Corridor as a whole, and in Chicago and beyond.
The food deserts on Chicago's South and West sides could spread even wider if seven Save A Lot grocery stores close.
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.
Vincent Pastore played Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on all six seasons of "The Sopranos," which aired from 1999 to 2007.
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.
Meteorologist Kylee Miller has your 5:30 p.m. First Alert Weather forecast for Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026.
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.
This development comes as Democratic lawmakers express growing concerns over how much money the conflict is costing. Olivia Rinaldi reports.
Officials in Twin Falls, Idaho, identified Chad Williams, 24, as the shooter.
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.
Several people were killed in a shooting Saturday afternoon at an In-N-Out restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho, local authorities said.
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.
Earlier this month, charges were dropped in one case against Weinstein, but he still faces charges in New York and California.
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.
