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Crews from Chicago are making their way to Central Florida where they will help Tampa Electric repair damage and restore power.
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Crews from Chicago are making their way to Central Florida where they will help Tampa Electric repair damage and restore power.
The monster storm is expected to make landfall early Thursday before sweeping across the central part of the state. Forecasters say Milton's intensity is unlike anything Floridians have ever seen.
More than a dozen counties in western Florida are under mandatory evacuations ahead of Hurricane Milton.
Much of the area set to be hit by Hurricane Milton has been in shambles ever since Helene, which made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane.
CBS News Chicago talked with one woman who had evacuated from Florida and landed in Chicago, and a former suburban mayor volunteering in Florida for the American Red Cross. Darius Johnson reports.
The National Hurricane Center just released new data on Milton. Chief Meteorologist Albert Ramon has a breakdown.
Hurricane Milton is churning towards Florida, where the race is on to evacuate as Tampa Bay braces for the storm's expected landfall late Wednesday or early Thursday.
Milton is a powerful Category 4 hurricane with a path forecast to bring it ashore along Florida's west coast this week.
There were long lines at gas stations Monday night as people made their way out of the path of the storm. Chief Meteorologist Albert Ramon has a look at Milton's likely track.
Hurricane Milton has intensified to a Category 5 storm, the most powerful type of tropical storm, and is just days away from possibly pounding Tampa, Florida.
Tampa is bracing for Hurricane Milton to make landfall in a matter of days, little more than a week after Hurricane Helene slammed Florida and five other Southern states.
The hurricane is expected to make landfall on Florida's Gulf Coast by midweek. Meteorologist Mary Kay Kleist has a look at Milton's track.
President Biden visited Florida and Georgia on Thursday to survey the widespread damage from Hurricane Helene and receive updates on the federal, state and local response to the storm, saying Congress has an "obligation" to make sure the southeastern states have the resources they need.
In the aftermath, survivors continue to cope with limited electricity, food, and water.
President Biden is heading to Florida and Georgia to see the damage caused by Hurricane Helene after earlier visiting the Carolinas. Helene is blamed for at least 180 storm related deaths, and the president said another 600 people remain unaccounted for.
They will be set up in the Chicago shelter system, but the organization says these new arrivals will strain the shelter's capacity.
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Al Lopez, has been assisting in two towns in Taylor County in the Big Bend region of Florida—Perry and Keaton Beach.
Chief Meteorologist Albert Ramon tracks the effects of Hurricane Helene on Chicago's weather, while Darius Johnson reports on the severe damage and deaths caused by the hurricane in the South.
Tom Hanson reports from Tennessee on the hurricane that has now left more than 40 people dead.
The Buckmans said they learned the hard way from Hurricane Ian in 2022—their first hurricane—and they prepared this time around.
The Buckmans said they learned the hard way from Hurricane Ian in 2022—their first hurricane—and they prepared this time around. Charlie De Mar reports.
Helene has been downgraded to a tropical depression, but the danger is far from over—and the Chicago area is set to see some of the powerful winds. Tom Hanson reports from Tallahassee on the destruction, and Meteorologist David Yeomans reports on the coming effects in the Chicago area.
From a giant tree into an apartment building in Tallahassee and boats in the front yards in Treasure Island. Daylight revealed scenes of utter destruction along Florida’s Gulf Coast.
Chicago Ald. Daniel La Spata (1st) wants to hear from anyone who has strong feelings about food delivery robots.
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President Trump said he is directing all federal law enforcement to be at the "complete disposal" of Savannah Guthrie's family as the search continues for her mother, Nancy Guthrie.
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Minute Maid's parent company, Coca-Cola, says it's ending production of its frozen juice concentrates, including orange juice.
Chicago Ald. Daniel La Spata (1st) wants to hear from anyone who has strong feelings about food delivery robots.
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Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital announced this week that it is planning to open a new pediatric hospital in the west Chicago suburb of Downers Grove.
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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.
January may be the coldest time of the year, but Chicago is already looking forward to summer farmers' markets.
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.
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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?
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Bad Bunny used his Grammy acceptance speech on Sunday to denounce U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and call for the end of the ongoing immigration crackdown.
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Chicago Ald. Daniel La Spata (1st) wants to hear from anyone who has strong feelings about food delivery robots.
A man was critically injured in a shooting that led to a crash in Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood on Wednesday night.
Meteorologist Laura Bannon has the extended forecast.
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A woman was killed and a man was wounded when they were shot while in a car with a baby in the back seat in Auburn Gresham, just steps from St. Sabina Parish.
Chicago Ald. Daniel La Spata (1st) wants to hear from anyone who has strong feelings about food delivery robots.
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Cynthia Eason recounted the moment Chicago police officers raided her family's home in 2018.
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The case involves a Chicago grandmother, her daughter, and her four grandchildren, who all said that Chicago police officers pointed guns at them during the botched raid.
Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel no longer will have to testify about an alleged "code of silence" at the Chicago Police Department, after a federal judge reversed an earlier ruling that would have allowed him to take the stand in a lawsuit over a botched police raid.
John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, the busiest trauma center in Illinois, is sounding an alarm, as doctors brace for an influx of patients because of federal funding cuts under the Trump administration's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act."
Six players made 3s for Illinois, which shot 17 of 38 from behind the arc and had just two turnovers.
Spencer Knight made 16 saves for the Blackhawks, who have dropped five of six.
The Chicago Bulls are trading Coby White to the Charlotte Hornets, reports said Wednesday.
Chicago cut Milwaukee's lead to 90-84 late in the third quarter, but couldn't get any closer.
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Ryan Routh, the man convicted in a 2024 assassination attempt of President Trump at his Florida golf course, has been sentenced to life in prison.
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