Illinois facing COVID-19 surge
Nationally, hospitalizations are up 19% from a week ago, and deaths jumped 21%.
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Nationally, hospitalizations are up 19% from a week ago, and deaths jumped 21%.
According to the Illinois Department of Public Health, 441 people were admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 last week, a 28% increase from the week before.
Since April 2022, the state has given out more than $246 million in grants to help nearly 14,000 homeowners.
If you struggle to pay your mortgage, you have two months to apply for a state grant. Illinois will stop taking applications on October 31st for the Homeowner Assistance Fund Program.
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the so-called digital divide, a lack of computer and technology skills, particularly in Hispanic communities. In a story you'll see only on CBS 2, Investigator Megan Hickey dug into a solution that's helped in other parts of the country and is coming to Cicero.
The bull roaming around Barrington Hills for close to a week has been caught. The animal was caught Thursday afternoon around 3:30 p.m. in the area where it was first reported missing.
The bull roaming around Barrington Hills for close to a week has been caught. The animal was caught Thursday afternoon around 3:30 p.m. in the area where it was first reported missing.
State and local leaders are looking to address the labor shortage and getting migrants jobs.
The Summer Olympics are still a year away, but the games have been going on all month in Arlington Heights. It's not the kind of competition getting tons of media attention, but it's the experience of the athletes that caught CBS 2's Noel Brennan's attention. He went to a gold medal match at the Moorings retirement community.
A crash forced a car well off the roadway near where Interstate 80 meets Interstate 355 in southwest suburban New Lenox on Tuesday afternoon.
Students can get hands-on career training and certificates while also working toward a high school diploma and college credits.
A new learning center will give young people new opportunities in downstate Illinois. On Monday, officials held the grand opening for the South Central Illinois Training and Innovation Center in Litchfield, south of Springfield.
In June, Illinois became the first state in the nation to ban book banning.
That student was stopped by security and the school resource officer.
An Uber driver was beaten during a carjacking in the far North Suburbs early Thursday morning.
According to the school's website, the extreme heat resulted in "unusually high temperatures in the building and unsafe, wet floor conditions."
The person was said to be in their 90s and lived in suburban Cook County.
The person was said to be in their 90s and lived in suburban Cook County.
"Chicago women in trades are training women for these jobs and women of color black women for these jobs. That's the model for how we build an economy in which no one's left out."
CBS 2 Investigator Megan Hickey digs into why a lack of female construction and trade workers means women are missing economic benefits. She sat down exclusively with the acting U.S. Labor Sec. about the plan to fix that.
A contractor for the Illinois Department of Transportation was hit along the Bishop Ford Expressway on Wednesday.
At least eight are from Chicago or the suburbs.
They're also asking for additional support to address the needs of new migrants in Chicago and Illinois.
The new law requires IDOT to find possible developers in the first half of next year.
Utility companies are gearing up for the hot temperatures expected to affect power grids across the country. CBS 2's Tara Molina spoke to ComEd about the impact in the Chicago area.
