3 hurt, including 11-month-old girl, when car hits CTA bus on Near West Side
No one was seriously hurt late Saturday after a car hit a CTA bus on Chicago's Near West Side.
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No one was seriously hurt late Saturday after a car hit a CTA bus on Chicago's Near West Side.
No one was seriously hurt late Saturday after a car hit a CTA bus on Chicago's Near West Side
A man was rushed to the hospital from the scene of a house fire in Chicago's Auburn Gresham neighborhood early Thursday.
The fire broke out in a two-story home in the 7700 block of South Damen Avenue.
A man stood charged with arson and criminal damage to property Sunday after police said he set himself on fire on a CTA Blue Line train last week.
Abandoned since an explosion in 1977, the new owner of the silos has been planning to tear them down — and will begin doing so on Monday of next week.
Around 1:20 a.m., Chicago police said the man broke into a building in the 3400 block of North Damen Avenue and sexually abused two women.
Heavy smoke was seen billowing up into the sky in the building on Damen Avenue at 52nd Street.
Responding crews were able to put out the fire with no injuries.
The attackers fired shots at the victim, striking him in the back, police said.
The man was in his car when he was shot at 46th Street and Damen Avenue.
The station along the Lake Street branch opened Monday as a gateway to the West Side, and just in time for the Democratic National Convention at the nearby United Center coming up. Tara Molina reports.
The new 'L' stop near the United Center opened just in time for the 2024 Democratic National Convention. Tara Molina reports.
This was not a fire, the CFD said.
The smoke in an Auburn Gresham residence was caused by cooking, not a fire, the Chicago Fire Department said.
The silos have been abandoned since an explosion nearly half a century ago, but are also a piece of Chicago history. CBS 2's Marybel Gonzalez reports.
The accident happened on Washington Boulevard at Damen Avenue, not far from the United Center.
The victim was attacked from behind in broad daylight in Bucktown. CBS 2's Sabrina Franza reports.
The attackers threw the victim right into a chain-link fence and knocked him to the ground.
The tow truck driver was caught between two people in separate cars who were shooting at each other. CBS 2's Tara Molina reports.
At 3:21 p.m., the 48-year-old man was parking his car in the 2000 block of West Chicago Avenue. As he got out of the car, two people came up and one of them took out a gun, police said.
The parents of a 27-year-old musician gunned downed on the city's Southwest Side spoke out Monday, only to CBS 2 Investigator Megan Hickey.
Five people were rushed to the hospital Saturday night after a crash on the Near West Side.
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After a spree of carjackings in Bucktown this week amid an ongoing carjacking crisis in Chicago, one family has decided to move out of the neighborhood.
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The owners of Gene & Georgetti steakhouse are suing a concessions operator over their expansion at Midway International Airport.
DraftKings announced Monday that it is closing its sportsbook operation at Wrigley Field after only about two years.
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Flight attendants at Chicago-based United Airlines have approved a new labor contract, marking their first pay increases in six years.
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Attorneys for Salah Sarsour, president of Wisconsin's largest mosque, told a federal judge he has lost 30 pounds and is not receiving consistent medical care for Type 2 diabetes while held in an Indiana jail.
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