Walgreens Teams With Google To Test Drone Delivery Service
The chain is teaming up with Google's drone delivery company to start air drop-offs to some customers.
Here's The Most Commonly Misspelled Word In Illinois Last Year
If you rely on Google for your spell check, you are not alone.
Pro-Trump Demonstration At Twitter Headquarters Appears To Be A Bust, Twitter Claims To Respect 'People's Right To Express Their Views':
A demonstration by supporters of President Donald Trump to protest his ban from the Twitter social media platform outside the company's San Francisco headquarters appeared to be a bust Monday morning.
Gmail, YouTube Down Briefly As Google Suffers Outage
Google users in the U.S., Europe, India and other parts of the world were briefly unable to access their Gmail accounts, watch YouTube videos or get to their online documents during an outage Monday.
'We Are Really At A Crisis Point For Our Democracy, Economy': Sally Hubbard On Big Tech Corporations & Book 'Monopolies Suck'
Big corporations like Facebook, Amazon and Apple dominate our lives, but do they have our best intentions in mind? Sally Hubbard explains why monopolies are ruining our democracy and economy.
Career Coach: Utilizing Google To Make The Job Search Easier
Finding a job is never easy, especially when you're looking with more than 30 million Americans out of work.
Scammers Take $5,000 From Suburban Mom After Fraudulent Ads Pop Up On Google
Abbey Coffey is a mother of three. Santa got her son a new iPod, but on the day after Christmas his Apple ID wasn't working, so she Googled "Apple support number."
Judge Signs Off On Search Warrants Demanding Jussie Smollett's Data From Google
A judge has ordered Google to get involved in the investigation into Jussie Smollett – specifically with regard to why charges against the "Empire" actor were filed and then abruptly dropped.
Chance The Rapper's New Coding Project For CPS Students
The hip hop artist joined forces with Google to launch the game coded by Chicago Public School students.
Another Google Customer Service Headache: Dozens Of Calls To Get A Refund On A Defective Pixel Phone
After the Morning Insiders told you about a family's outrageous battle with Google, we heard from people with similar horror stories around the world.
Is Dealing With Google Customer Service A Dream Or A Nightmare? One Family's Horror Story Touches A Nerve
Many people described infuriating struggles with customer service at Google, but some made it seem like dealing with the tech giant is a snap.
Getting The Runaround From Google; How Did A Relatively Simple Customer Service Problem Turn Into A Maddening Ordeal?
The Google website might be helpful. But dealing with real, live, breathing human beings at the tech giant can be infuriating.
Google Customer Service Nightmare: More Than 50 Emails To Get Tech Giant To Fix Pixel Phone Blunder
CBS 2 Morning Insider Lauren Victory investigates an outrageous battle for a customer trying to return a broken Pixel cell phone.
Google Buys Fitbit For $2.1B, Stepping Back Into Wearables
Google's lack of wearables has been a blind spot that it is fixing with the Fitbit purchase and the upcoming launch of its earbuds, the Pixel Buds, this spring, UBS analyst Eric Sheridan said in a research note.
YouTube To Pay $170 Million Fine After Violating Kids' Privacy Law
Google's video site YouTube has been fined $170 million to settle allegations it collected children's personal data without their parents' consent.
Apple, Google Continue Inclusive Push With New Emojis
There are also wheelchairs, prosthetic arms and legs, as well as a new guide dog and an ear with a hearing aid.
Jussie Smollett Correction: Records Show Osundairo Brother, Not Actor, Was Googling News Of Alleged Attack
In the days after Jussie Smollett said he was the victim of a racially motivated attack, there was a spike in interest in his story.
What's Your Data Worth To Big Tech? Bill Would Compel Answer
The measure would require commercial services with more than 100 million active monthly users to disclose to their customers and financial regulators the types of data they collect.
YouTube Updates Hate Speech Guidelines To Prohibit Videos
YouTube is updating its hate speech policies to prohibit videos with white supremacist and neo-Nazi content.
Walmart Hires Former Google, Amazon Exec For New Tech Role
The moves come as Walmart is trying to compete better with Amazon and other technology companies.
Google Promises A Smarter, Smaller AI Assistant
Google CEO Sundar Pichai kicked off the company's annual developer conference Tuesday with updates to Google's artificially intelligent voice assistant.
Google To Require Benefits, Minimum Wage For Contractors
Contract workforces are common in the tech industry and often get paid less and have fewer perks than full-time employees working for tech giants.
Europe Fines Google $1.7 Billion In Antitrust Case
It comes at a time when big tech companies around the world are facing increasing regulatory pressure and fierce political attacks over privacy violations, online misinformation, hate speech and other abuses.
Supreme Court: Google Class-Action Case Should Be Revisited
The Google users who sued argued that the search engine sends website operators potentially identifying information when someone clicks on a link produced by a search.
Google Launches Game-Streaming Platform
Google on Tuesday unveiled a video-game streaming platform called Stadia, positioning itself to take on the traditional video-game business.
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Watch Live: Trump grabbed steering wheel to get to Capitol on Jan. 6, aide testifies
The House Jan. 6 committee is hearing from Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Illinois Primary Election Day: Here's what you need to know
One of the biggest races to keep an eye on Tuesday is the Republican Primary for Illinois governor.
CPD vehicle damaged as large crowd of teens gathered on street in Lakeview
Crowds were dancing on buses and jumping rope in the street on Belmont Avenue near the Red Line station.
4th person dies from Amtrak derailment in Missouri; safety upgrades had been urged for site of wreck
The Missouri State Highway Patrol announced the fourth death Tuesday afternoon and provided its first estimate of the injured — about 150 people taken to 10 area hospitals with injuries ranging from minor to serious.
COPA releases video of Englewood shooting that wounded CPD Officer Erik Moreno
Video issued by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability Tuesday shows the moment a Chicago Police officer was shot in Englewood in the middle of the day last month.
Chicago sees nearly 12% voter turnout rate as of noon on Election Day
A total of 178,215 ballots have been counted in the city as of midday on Election Day.
Chicago First Alert Weather: Sun peeks through clouds
According to CBS 2 meteorologist Mary Kay Kleist, as the clouds drift southward Tuesday night, it runs into our dry air mass.
Police search for Bucktown electronics repair shop burglar
CBS 2 obtained surveillance video of the break in. Security cameras caught close-up images of the alleged burglar.
Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in prison
The sentencing Tuesday was the culmination of a prosecution that detailed how Epstein and Maxwell flaunted their riches and associations with prominent people to groom vulnerable girls and then exploit them.
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Watch Live: Trump grabbed steering wheel to get to Capitol on Jan. 6, aide testifies
The House Jan. 6 committee is hearing from Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Illinois Primary Election Day: Here's what you need to know
One of the biggest races to keep an eye on Tuesday is the Republican Primary for Illinois governor.
CPD vehicle damaged as large crowd of teens gathered on street in Lakeview
Crowds were dancing on buses and jumping rope in the street on Belmont Avenue near the Red Line station.
4th person dies from Amtrak derailment in Missouri; safety upgrades had been urged for site of wreck
The Missouri State Highway Patrol announced the fourth death Tuesday afternoon and provided its first estimate of the injured — about 150 people taken to 10 area hospitals with injuries ranging from minor to serious.
COPA releases video of Englewood shooting that wounded CPD Officer Erik Moreno
Video issued by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability Tuesday shows the moment a Chicago Police officer was shot in Englewood in the middle of the day last month.
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Dixmoor Treasurer Anthony McCaskill arrested after fireworks complaint in Harvey
A fireworks show in south suburban Harvey didn't go as planned – it ended with the Dixmoor village treasurer getting thrown in jail.
Woman without one document for foreign citizenship application, broken forklift blamed
Cutting through bureaucratic red tape can be frustrating – but red tape is not the reason for one west suburban woman's frustration.
Bid to raise threshold for speed camera tickets stalls; Lightfoot allies delay final vote
Ald. Anthony Beale has been trying for more than a year to raise the threshold for speed camera tickets from 6 mph over the limit back to the original to 10 mph.
Aldermen defy Lightfoot, advance plan to raise threshold for speed camera tickets back to 10 mph
"We've been trying to right the wrong on this corrupt red light camera/speed light camera system," said Ald. Anthony Beale (9th).
Ald. Anthony Beale hopes for vote on proposal to repeal lower 6mph threshold for speed camera tickets
One Chicago alderman is hoping the fourth time is the charm when it comes to changing Chicago's speed camera tickets and fines.
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Trump grabbed steering wheel to get to Capitol on Jan. 6, aide testifies
Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to former chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified that Trump said about the crowd at the Ellipse "something to the effect of, 'I don't effing care that they have weapons.'"
Dixmoor Treasurer Anthony McCaskill arrested after fireworks complaint in Harvey
A fireworks show in south suburban Harvey didn't go as planned – it ended with the Dixmoor village treasurer getting thrown in jail.
Voters set to head to polls for heated Illinois gubernatorial, congressional primaries
Beginning at 6 a.m. Tuesday, voters from across the State of Illinois will head to the polls for primary races ahead of the midterm elections.
DuPage County program allows voters to cast their ballots at any site countywide
The Illinois primary is coming up Tuesday, and early voting numbers ahead of that date were down in Chicago. But that has not been the case everywhere.
Supreme Court sides with football coach who lost his job for praying after games
"The Constitution and the best of our traditions counsel mutual respect and tolerance, not censorship and suppression," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote.
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After losing rental income, Chicago man gets stuck with long wait from state assistance program
Rental income was part of a Chicago man's retirement plan, but that hit a snag when his renters lost their jobs during the pandemic.
Kroger, Walgreens recall pain medications over faulty child-proofing
There's nothing wrong with the medication, but the bottles don't meet standards for child resistance.
Woman loses $17,000 in gift card scam perpetrated by Microsoft security impostor
Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg was the site of a post-Christmas shopping spree that Cynthia DeSimone still regrets months later – and it wasn't her idea at all.
Getting Hosed: D.C. has an app to warn customers of high water usage; could Chicago use the same?
What if there were a way to get warnings about high water usage before the bill arrived in the mail?
Getting Hosed: Chicago landlord receives water bill for $10,000, with no warning
How does a City of Chicago water bill for $70 turn into a $10,000 tab from one bill to the next?
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Planned Parenthood of Illinois prepares for huge spike in demand for abortion services
Every state that borders Illinois has or could soon have restrictions on abortion in the wake of the striking down of Roe v. Wade.
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade
The Supreme Court Friday overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which guaranteed a woman's right to abortion. The ruling sends the issue back to the states. CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford reports.
Wisconsin doctors halt abortions after Roe v. Wade overturned
Wisconsin has an 1849 law that bans abortion, except to save the life of the mother, but whether that law is enforceable is expected to be challenged in court.
COVID-19 vaccines to be available for younger children soon, but many parents still hesitant
A Kaiser poll taken earlier this spring found fewer than one in five parents would get their children under 5 vaccinated right away.
CDC and FDA clear the way for COVID vaccines for kids under 5
Panels of outside vaccine advisers to the CDC and FDA both voted unanimously this week to back the shots from Moderna as well as Pfizer and BioNTech.
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Billionaire Ken Griffin moving Chicago-based hedge fund Citadel to Miami
In a note to employees at Citadel, Griffin announced he already has moved his family to Miami, and will soon be bringing the company with him, though some Citadel employees will remain in Chicago.
Chicago company using fungi from Yellowstone to grow vegan protein products
The edible fungi was discovered as part of a NASA-funded research mission about life in extreme environments.
Black-owned and operated craft coffee shop works to expand, and to inspire entrepreneurs
The coffee shop wants to support Black, Latinx, and women entrepreneurs get their own start.
Kellogg to split into three companies, with snack division headquarters in Chicago
The snack company – which accounts for 80% of Kellogg's current sales – will have dual campuses in Battle Creek and Chicago, with its headquarters in Chicago.
Chicago-based Mondelez buys Clif Bar & Co. for $3 billion
The company will get the Clif, LUNA and Clif Kids brands of bars.
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White Sox lose to Angels, have now dropped five of six
Taylor Ward hit a go-ahead double in the seventh inning, Noah Syndergaard snapped a four-game losing streak and the Los Angeles Angels rallied for a victory over the Chicago White Sox on Monday night.
Luke Richardson officially named new Blackhawks coach
Richardson, 53, replaces interim head coach Derek King.
Bulls introduce draft pick Dalen Terry, focus on keeping Zach LaVine
Terry played for the University of Arizona, and is known for his energy, competitive drive, and defensive playmaking.
Up and coming sportscaster Jason Ross Jr. already making a name for himself on Chicago airwaves
The moment Ross hits the airwaves, you know he's doing exactly what he was meant to do.
Wolves beat Springfield Thunderbirds in Game 5 to win Calder Cup
The Chicago Wolves are now the first American Hockey League team in 22 years to achieve two shutouts in the finals.
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Rhapsody Theater celebrates grand opening in historic Rogers Park space
The official debut of the 200-seat space Tuesday evening featured magician Carisa Hendrix – better known by her stage name, Miss Lucy Darling.
Volunteer men's chorus The Jolly Boys celebrate 75 years performing
For the last three quarters of a century, the Jolly Boys have shared their song throughout Chicagoland.
Chicago's Jennifer Hudson is now part of exclusive EGOT club with Tony win for 'A Strange Loop'
Hudson produced the new musical "A Strange Loop" which won for Best Musical Sunday night.
Jury awards millions to Johnny Depp, less to Amber Heard in libel suits
The judge said state law caps punitive damages at $350,000, meaning Depp's award would total $10.35 million.
After successful inaugural event, organizers hope to make Sueños Music Festival into a Chicago tradition
The Sueños Music Festival transformed Grant Park into a colorful celebration of Latino culture this past Memorial Day Weekend.
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Chicago First Alert Weather: Sunny Primary Day
CBS 2 meteorologist Laura Bannon has a look at the forecast.
Bucktown electronics repair shop burglarized
Chicago police are searching for at least one suspect in a burglary at an electronics repair shop in Bucktown. The burglary took place at E-Repair on North Avenue near Paulina around 4:30 Tuesday morning.
Illinois Primary Election Day voting underway
Polling sites close at 7 p.m., and you can vote as long as you are in line by the closing time. As of 9 a.m., more than 141,000 ballots have been cast.Chicagoans ages 65 to 75 are leading to voter count.
Candidates hope to turn out the vote on Primary Day
One of the biggest races to keep an eye on Tuesday is the Republican Primary for Illinois governor.
Cars damaged when bricks from wall under McCormick Place Lakeside Center fall onto DuSable Lake Shor
At least two cars were damaged by falling debris. The Fire Department said no one was hurt.
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