Panel Recommends More Cash Settlements For Fatal Police-Involved Shootings
Chicago police officers shot 42 rounds at Emmanuel Lopez and struck him 16 times in 2005. CBS 2's Mike Parker reports.
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Chicago police officers shot 42 rounds at Emmanuel Lopez and struck him 16 times in 2005. CBS 2's Mike Parker reports.
Community groups and some aldermen have spearheaded opposition to a plan to allow liquor sales at clubs that allow topless dancing or possibly even full nudity.
Key aldermen are not buying the Emanuel administration's latest proposal to regulate so-called "house sharing" rentals like Airbnb, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
The study for the Illinois Policy Institute, a conservative think tank, found the average salary for state workers here, when adjusted for cost of living, is just over $59,000 – about $10,000 more than the national average.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has appointed former Chicago Urban League president Andrea Zopp as a deputy mayor, and tasked her with focusing on improving economic development in the city's struggling neighborhoods.
Some Republicans in Springfield have criticized legislation that would change the way education money is distributed because they say it does too much for Chicago when the city isn't doing enough for itself.
Congressman Luis Gutierrez and other advocates for immigrants said the race for president has prompted more immigrants than ever to go through the process and expense of applying for citizenship, either out of fear or to make their voices heard at the polls.
The plan to redevelop the old Cook County Hospital Building, and upgrade medical care in the area cleared the Cook County Board's Finance Committee, setting up a final vote Wednesday, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
Cook County Commissioner Peter Silvestri wants Springfield to change the Cook County Circuit Court clerk from an elected position to an appointed one, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
Governor Bruce Rauner is baffled that the Illinois State Board of Education says Chicago Public School finances don't warrant a school takeover, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
After years of resisting demands from community activists, officials at the University of Chicago Medical Center say they are working closely with the community to bring a trauma center and expanded health care to the South Side, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
Officials at the University of Chicago were countering some regulators' criticisms of their long-awaited plan to establish a Level One Trauma Center on their Hyde Park hospital campus.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool on Thursday rejected a laundry list of new and increased taxes the Chicago Teachers Union had suggested to boost funding for the cash-strapped school district.
A budget watchdog group has criticized Gov. Bruce Rauner's spending plan for this year as being underfunded and unrealistic.
Despite agreeing to temporarily halt their lawsuit challenging the original plan for "Star Wars" creator George Lucas' lakefront museum, Friends of the Parks said Tuesday it would oppose any plan to put the museum along Lake Michigan, including Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposed compromise at McCormick Place.
Most, but not all, of the major candidates for president are crisscrossing Indiana ahead of that state's key primary Tuesday, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
The head of the state's premier physicians group is applauding efforts to make a life-saving heroin antidote available to more people, professional and otherwise, reports WBBM Political editor Craig Dellimore.
The former Congresswoman from Arizona survived a 2011 shooting. WBBM's Craig Dellimore reports.
In the wake of former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert's child sex abuse scandal, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has renewed her call to eliminate the statute of limitations on sex crimes against children.
The Bears are planning some unspecified improvements that will enhance the game day experience, George McCaskey says.
Denver and Los Angeles are among the contenders for the next draft, but Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says his city is the gold standard.
The DuPage County Board has used the recent anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leaders Dr. Martin Luther King to commemorate the contribution African Americans have made to the county, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
School superintendents from around Illinois are telling an Illinois House Education Task Force that Chicago Public School officials are not alone in saying that the state's current school funding practices are hurting poor children, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
The DuPage County Board has used the recent anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King to commemorate the contribution African Americans have made to the county.
