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Protesters against police brutality had hoped to walk on the Dan Ryan Expressway starting at noon on Saturday, but they did not get on, and instead took to local streets.
A Chicago man is charged with driving under the influence, and violating Scott's Law, after crashing into two Chicago Police squad cars that had stopped to respond to an unrelated collision on the Dan Ryan Expressway early Saturday morning.
One person suffered injuries in a fiery crash on the Dan Ryan Expressway Monday afternoon.
Illinois Sate Police are investigating a reported shooting on the Dan Ryan Expressway early Saturday morning.
A man reported he was shot while driving on the Dan Ryan in the Gresham neighborhood early Tuesday morning.
Three crashes on the Dan Ryan Expressway are caused major delays for commuters Friday morning.
One person is dead after a multiple car crash on the Dan Ryan Expressway ended in a car fire.
Three young women were shot Tuesday evening near the Chicago Transit Authority Red Line station at 79th Street and the Dan Ryan Expressway.
A woman was shot while riding in a car on the Dan Ryan Expressway early Monday morning.
Police said, around 3 p.m., a man was driving near 99th Street and Michigan Avenue, when he was shot. He kept driving, got on the Dan Ryan Expressway, and crashed at 79th Street. The victim continued driving, entering the Dan Ryan Expressway, before crashing at the northbound 79th Street exit ramp.
One person is dead and seven others are injured after a crash on the Dan Ryan Sunday morning.
Illinois State Police said the shooting happened shortly after 4:45 p.m. Two people were taken to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.
Three people, including a baby, were injured in a crash on the Dan Ryan Expressway Monday morning.
Four people were seriously injured Tuesday when a minivan slammed into a concrete wall on the Dan Ryan Expressway.
All northbound lanes of the Dan Ryan Expressway were closed Sunday morning as Illinois State Police investigated a reported shooting.
The Red Line south of Garfield Boulevard and the Dan Ryan Expressway were both shut down Saturday as a police SWAT team responded for a man with a knife on the tracks at 79th Street.
Multiple southbound lanes were blocked off overnight as crews responded to the crash.
A fire broke out at a home in Englewood Monday morning.
Illinois State Police are investigating after a woman was shot on the Dan Ryan Expressway early Sunday morning.
Multiple people were injured Saturday evening when a car hit a wall on the Dan Ryan Expressway.
Two people were shot while traveling on the Dan Ryan Expressway south of Pershing Road Wednesday night, Illinois State Police said.
Illinois State Police on Monday evening were investigating a report of a shooting on the Dan Ryan Expressway near 87th Street.
Two people were charged in connection with a carjacking that led to a police pursuit and a crash.
Police responded to an incident on the Dan Ryan involving a carjacking, pursuit and crash.
Two people are in serious condition after a shooting on the Dan Ryan Expressway Sunday morning, Illinois State Police confirm.
The billboard is located at State and Hubbard Street and features directions on how to get from there to Lake Ontario.
A murder in Chicago's most affluent suburb happened 60 years ago, long before anyone had ever heard the phrase "cold case." Today, it's one of the coldest cases in the Chicago area.
The parents of a man who was killed after being pushed out of a moving CTA Red Line train were speaking out on Wednesday about their devastating loss.
Officers shot a man while responding to a domestic disturbance on Wednesday afternoon in northwest suburban Des Plaines, police said.
People who use some CTA station Park & Ride lots have raised concerns over what they say are recent overcharges.
Illinois' legislature will once again soon find itself without a legislative inspector general. Michael McCuskey will resign that watchdog post amid criticism about his ability to handle investigations.
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to intervene in a lawsuit over the use of a controversial data system to review state voter rolls.
Brooks is seeking to stand out with a platform centering on revitalizing city neighborhoods and new means of promoting public safety.
Turning Point Action is expanding its Iowa presence county by county, with leaders saying high voter participation in the caucuses is the organization's key measure of success.
In less than two weeks, the high-energy laser weapon system has taken down 11 drones, coinciding with a 75% drop in drones probing the border, military officials told CBS News.
Drivers in Chicago and beyond were paying the highest gas prices ever recorded for the Labor Day holiday as millions of Americans were making their way home on Monday.
Around 115 million domestic and international tourists visited Illinois last year, pushing visitor spending past $50 billion for the first time and generating more than $88 billion in total economic impact.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul filed a lawsuit Thursday against ABC Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electric Inc., alleging deceptive business practices.
Cook County homeowners are again facing a sharper increase in property taxes this year than businesses, the Office of Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas announced Monday.
Contracted linemen from out of state sat idle in a Griffith church parking lot for hours without work orders from NIPSCO, as residents in Northwest Indiana approach two weeks without power.
Cardinal Blase Cupich and a group of Catholic nuns have joined a federal lawsuit challenging Illinois' Medical Aid in Dying law, which is set to take effect in just over a week.
Flies have been everywhere this summer in the Chicago area, and some of them bite. But why is this happening?
Prime Healthcare is drawing criticism after announcing it will stop obstetrics services at three Chicago-area hospitals.
The Chicago Department of Public Health on Tuesday announced two human cases and one death from the West Nile virus in the city this year, and one of those two people has died.
The Jackson Chance Foundation supports the lives of families with babies in the NICU by removing the financial burden of finding parking near hospitals.
Plans for a new Chicago White Sox stadium in the South Loop have residents near the existing ballpark in Bridgeport concerned, not just because the team might be leaving, but also what might be coming nearby.
A new report from the University of Illinois Chicago said federal immigration enforcement led to $1.26 billion in unspent money at retail establishments and restaurants in Cook County.
Around 115 million domestic and international tourists visited Illinois last year, pushing visitor spending past $50 billion for the first time and generating more than $88 billion in total economic impact.
A new Whole Foods Market is coming to Chicago's Old Town neighborhood.
More than 100 Black-owned businesses were showcased at Soldier Field Sunday for Black on the Block.
The stage was set and the air was humid as rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, took the stage for the first of two Chicago concerts at Soldier Field Thursday night.
James Fulton Engstrom, now a healthy teenager, was born without a pulse in 2010 — and his survival is the miracle the Catholic Church credited to Fulton Sheen's intercession, clearing the way for beatification.
The Met's decision to highlight the work by designer John Galliano sparked widespread controversy due to his history of antisemitic and racist comments.
The Edgewater Music Festival was under way this weekend on Chicago's north lakefront.
People around the world, including Chicago, continued to gather Wednesday to pay tribute to the late Dolly Parton.
This year's pick is "Orbital" by Samantha Harvey. The book won the 2024 Booker Prize and was among former President Barack Obama's books that year.
Residents rallied outside the hospital in Oak Park on Wednesday morning in an effort to get answers from hospital leadership. West Suburban abruptly closed in March because it could not make payroll.
Chief meteorologist Albert Ramon has the latest, including a warm and dry weekend ahead, in First Alert Weather.
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is welcoming a record-breaking class for the 2026 fall semester.
Flight data recorder information indicates the pilots of an Amazon cargo plane might have attempted to abort the landing moments before a crash at Miami International Airport.
The family of a woman who has been missing since a car lost control and went into the Little Calumet River said her body has been found.
Frankfort Mayor Keith Ogle said they started planning the vigil after the tragedies within the past week.
The Chicago Department of Aviation is holding a contest to name a boulder found under O'Hare International Airport during construction work.
The billboard is located at State and Hubbard Street and features directions on how to get from there to Lake Ontario.
A murder in Chicago's most affluent suburb happened 60 years ago, long before anyone had ever heard the phrase "cold case." Today, it's one of the coldest cases in the Chicago area.
Several lawsuits are challenging Illinois' medical aid in dying law that is set to take effect on Sept. 12, including one in federal court arguing the law discriminates against people with disabilities.
Back in 2023, ISP got a $10 million grant from the Illinois Secretary of State's Illinois Vehicle Hijacking and Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention and Insurance Verification Council.
Two years before dozens of decomposing bodies were found inside the South Chicago Chapel funeral home, police in nearby Evergreen Park found two bodies in the owners' minivan outside their home.
Hundreds of people are suing the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, where they say they were sexually abused by staff. For the first time, survivors detailed their experience exclusively to CBS News Chicago.
Why has the family that runs South Chicago Chapel, where 56 decomposing bodies were found this month, never faced criminal charges, despite a history of mishandling human remains?
Milwaukee extended its NL Central lead to nine games over Chicago by coming from behind to defeat the Cubs for a second straight day.
Chicago's Kyle Teel hit his second homer in two games and singled. Munetaka Murakami struck out four times.
Braxton Jones will be the Chicago Bears' starting left tackle for Week 1 against the Carolina Panthers. It's the fifth straight season he will start there, after beating out three others for the job during training camp.
Plans for a new Chicago White Sox stadium in the South Loop have residents near the existing ballpark in Bridgeport concerned, not just because the team might be leaving, but also what might be coming nearby.
The Cubs fell eight games back of the MLB-leading Brewers in the NL Central after losing the opener of this three-game series.
The parents of a man who was killed after being pushed out of a moving CTA Red Line train were speaking out on Wednesday about their devastating loss.
Valerie Percy, the 21-year-old daughter of then-U.S. Senate candidate Charles Percy, was brutally murdered in her family's home in the affluent North Shore Chicago suburb of Kenilworth in 1966. The case has never been solved.
Two Chicago men have been sentenced to more than 14 years in prison for carjacking a Chicago family at gunpoint in the backyard of their home in the Beverly neighborhood in 2023.
Gaming machines were irreparably damaged when burglars hit a restaurant in Schaumburg, Illinois, early Tuesday.
Prosecutors say Corie Walsh was actively texting in a group about the Lindsay Clancy case hours before her 2-year-old son Barrett died, though they said they do not believe it was a copycat case.
