Street renamed to honor fallen Chicago Police Officer Andrés Vásquez Lasso
Officer Vásquez Lasso responded to a domestic call and chased after a young man with a gun. Police say that 18-year-old shot and killed Vásquez Lasso.
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Officer Vásquez Lasso responded to a domestic call and chased after a young man with a gun. Police say that 18-year-old shot and killed Vásquez Lasso.
Officer Vásquez Lasso responded to a domestic call and chased after a young man with a gun. Police say that 18-year-old shot and killed Vásquez Lasso.
The robbery happened on Feb. 18 around 10 a.m. in the 1900 block of East 91st Street.
The Exoneration Project will file petitions for all seven men to ask a court to overturn the convictions, so they can get certificates of innocence.
Seven men who said they were wrongfully convicted of crimes due to the alleged misconduct of retired Chicago police detective Reynaldo Guevara are seeking to have those convictions overturned.
University of Chicago Law School professor Craig Futterman said the case shows how sending out officers with bad information can potentially lead to disaster.
A Cook County jury on Tuesday watched the final moments of Chicago Police Officer Ella French's life, as testimony got underway in the trial of the man charged with shooting her and her partner nearly three years ago.
Two other vehicles were also damaged in the crash, police said.
Emonte Morgan, 23, is facing an 85-count indictment in the shooting, charging him with multiple counts of murder, attempted murder, aggravated battery, and other felonies.
Jury selection was completed Monday for the man charged with shooting and killing Chicago Police Officer Ella French and wounding her partner in 2021. French, 29, was killed in August 2021 while conducting a traffic stop in Englewood. Her partner, Carlos Yanez Jr., was shot and paralyzed.
CBS 2 has now learned two more choppers for the CPD, and one more for the Cook County Sheriff's Office, should arrive by the end of the year.
Jury selection began Monday for the man charged with shooting and killing Chicago Police Officer Ella French and wounding her partner in 2021.
The officer was driving north in the alley behind Halsted Street, when he saw two men running toward his car who may have been trying to carjack him, police said.
The vote was unanimous. Starting in August, Chicago Police will only be allowed outside public schools. CBS 2's Sabrina Franza reports.
At a hearing Thursday before the vote, the school board heard from the public about the future of police in schools. CBS 2's Sabrina Franza reports.
Firefighters do not know what caused the fire.
One of the tires fell off the police sport-utility vehicle, and the airbags deployed.
Police have not said what led to the crash in the Old Irving Park neighborhood.
The Chicago Board of Education on Thursday is set to consider a resolution calling for the Chicago Public Schools system to end its school resource officer program by 2025.
The board on Thursday is set to consider a resolution calling for the Chicago Public Schools system to end its school resource officer program by 2025.
Police said the boys found their way to a home two miles from the scene before being rushed to the hospital, while the suspected shooters held police in a standoff back near the scene in South Shore. CBS 2's Charlie De Mar reports.
While the Mayor's office had said before that the contract would run until September, ShotSpotter earlier said it had not agreed to such a plan -- and the contract was to expire Friday.
The city's contract with SoundThinking, the company behind ShotSpotter, had been set to expire Friday.
Sources told CBS 2 that Chicago Police officers expect ShotSpotter to be turned off at midnight Friday night. CBS 2's Sabrina Franza reports.
"The shooting cases are the cases that are the ones that have the most scrutiny."
Miles Rubin started crafting a skill set for shot blocking at Simeon that has set him apart at Loyola.
The teams generated only a handful of chances through the first and second periods, and neither pressured with a territorial edge.
Chicago police said the suspect fired shots at officers while trying to flee, but was hit by gunfire from the officers.
The schools will continue to run normally throughout the remainder of the academic year.
Despite the weather, thousands of protesters showed up to express their frustrations against federal agents and the Trump administration.
Sens. Chris Murphy and Alex Padilla have spent the past two days calling colleagues to whip opposition to the DHS funding bill, according to a source familiar with the process.
The 5-year-old immigrant boy taken into ICE custody alongside his father in Minnesota has an active immigration case and cannot be legally deported yet, records reviewed by CBS News indicate.
A federal judge says the Trump administration must keep the money flowing for now for programs aimed at helping low-income families with children in five states.
A year ago, a law that effectively banned TikTok in the U.S. went into effect, though President Trump has not enforced it.
The Office of Management and Budget is seeking data about federal funding to 14 states and localities led by Democrats, including information from universities, and nonprofits within those states.
A controversial data center in Naperville, Illinois, could be the cause to pack a city council meeting there on Tuesday night.
Police in the west Chicago suburb of Geneva are warning of a scam involving spoofed phone numbers.
Protesters on Tuesday were cranking up the heat on Peoples Gas over a recently proposed rate hike that would add an additional $10 to $11 a month to utility bills.
A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
As this holiday season nears its end, Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias issued a warning Tuesday about text scams.
Leaders from Cook County, the Illinois Department of Human Services, and the Greater Chicago Food Depository denounced changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Wednesday.
The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center has received a grant from The Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation for a new cancer center.
Chicago's Lurie Children's Hospital said Tuesday that it is no longer initiating gender-affirming medical treatment for minors.
Roughly 1.4 million fewer Americans have signed up for an Affordable Care Act plan as expiring tax breaks drive up premiums.
January is Radon Action Month, and the Cook County Department of Public Health is urging residents to test their homes for radon.
A development proposal issued this month calls for the replacement of a building housing a Giordiano's pizzeria in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood with a new mixed-use building with 28 residential units.
United Airlines flight attendants picketed outside Chicago's Willis Tower Thursday morning as they fought for a new contract.
WSCR-AM, 670 The Score, will begin a simulcast on 104.3 FM next month.
Does the Chicago Bears' dramatic improvement this season, culminating in their first playoff run in five years, change the discussion about where they will build a new stadium?
The Piggery, a popular barbecue restaurant and bar in the northwest corner of Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood, announced Thursday that it is going out of business.
Sales of tickets to NHL games jumped more than 20% after the hit HBO show debuted in the fall, according to ticket vendor.
Among the names missing when the 98th Academy Award nominations were announced were Ariana Grande, George Clooney, Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, and anyone associated with "Wicked: For Good."
The nominees for the 98th annual Academy Awards were announced Thursday morning, and though "One Battle After Another," "Marty Supreme," "Frankenstein" and "Hamnet" were all nominated for plenty, it was "Sinners" that broke through with a record-smashing 16 nominations.
Prince Harry struck a combative tone as he testified in his lawsuit against the Daily Mail's publisher.
The 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees were revealed on "CBS Mornings" on Wednesday. See the full list.
As CBS’s Shanelle Kaul reports, the storm is expected to last until Monday, raising the chance of dangerous travel for several more days.
The company reports the legs can break on Magellan-branded odyssey rocker chairs, creating a fall and injury hazard.
Pierre Davis, 28, faces multiple felony charges, including attempted first-degree murder.
The workweek ahead looks cold and breezy with a few additional chances of light snow. Meteorologist David Yeomans has the latest in First Alert Weather.
He did it with no rope, no harness and no nets to catch him if he fell.
Expect additional chances for snow by midweek.
Chicago Public Schools will be open as usual on Monday despite another day of extreme cold.
A 36-year-old woman and a 4-year-old boy were killed in a homicide in Joliet, Illinois, on Sunday morning, according to police.
Despite the weather, thousands of protesters showed up to express their frustrations against federal agents and the Trump administration.
Chicago police said the suspect fired shots at officers while trying to flee, but was hit by gunfire from the officers.
As temperatures fell below zero in Chicago on Friday, tenants of a public housing complex in the East Garfield Park neighborhood said they were freezing inside their own homes due to insufficient heat.
Chicago is marking 30 years since it started its first citywide recycling program, which began with a problematic kickoff, and continues to lag behind other major cities in terms of performance.
More than a year before identical twin brothers stopped teaching at the Thornton Fractional School District, administrators were aware of allegations that one of them had been sexually assaulting a student.
Chicago relies on the CTA to get around, but there's some resistance to that reliance with safety concerns continuing to plague the mass transit system.
The Joliet Police Department is facing a federal civil rights lawsuit for patting down a 12-year-old girl who was a passenger in a vehicle pulled over for not having lights on.
Miles Rubin started crafting a skill set for shot blocking at Simeon that has set him apart at Loyola.
The teams generated only a handful of chances through the first and second periods, and neither pressured with a territorial edge.
Coby White scored 22 points and hit five of Chicago's 21 3s, helping the Bulls win their fourth straight.
The Illini hit 18 of 38 3-pointers while Purdue was 7 of 19.
Dominic James scored in the fifth round of a shootout and the Tampa Bay Lightning made it 15 straight games without a regulation loss, outlasting the Chicago Blackhawks 2-1 on Friday night.
A man was shot early Sunday when he confronted two people trying to break into a car in the north suburban Morton Grove.
A 36-year-old woman and a 4-year-old boy were killed in a homicide in Joliet, Illinois, on Sunday morning, according to police.
Ryan Wedding, a 44-year-old Canadian national, was added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list last year.
Officials said there were 11 arrest orders for "El Botox" for extortion and homicide. He was accused of attacking authorities with explosives.
The Department of Homeland Security disputes a Minnesota school district's claims that ICE agents used a 5-year-old boy as bait before taking the boy and his father into custody Wednesday.
