Joliet, Illinois, residents clean up again second round of severe storm damage
The southwest suburbs were walloped by Monday night's fast-moving storms, just a day after parts of Joliet sustained significant damage from storms over the weekend.
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The southwest suburbs were walloped by Monday night's fast-moving storms, just a day after parts of Joliet sustained significant damage from storms over the weekend.
Severe storms in the Midwest have overtopped a dam in southern Illinois and left the Chicago area cleaning up.
The group of Illinois delegates was excited to be in Milwaukee for the 2024 Republican National Convention this week.
A severe thunderstorm warning was issued by the National Weather Service for the county that lasted until 9:30 a.m., affecting Joliet, Lockport, and New Lenox.
Police say that preliminary information shows a UTV with three 14-year-old girls riding in it failed to stop at a stop sign and crashed into a grain hauler near Strasburg in Shelby County.
The plant, which was indefinitely idled in February 2023, is expected to reopen next year.
Fiscal Year 2024 saw total cannabis sales exceed $2 billion, which exceeded the figures for Fiscal Years 2023 and 2022.
Illinois lawmakers want input from the public on a proposal to create the Metropolitan Mobility Authority to replace the Regional Transportation Authority, and combine the CTA, Metra, and Pace into one agency.
An off-duty sheriff's deputy fatally shot a person during an armed robbery in northwest suburban Elgin on Monday.
First responders were trying to retrieve a vehicle that went into the Des Plaines River near Joliet a week ago on Tuesday.
No Fourth of July is complete without some good food and Tinley Park provided just the spot for thousands of hungry folks.
The Independence Day fireworks in Wheaton, Illinois, went off with a bigger bang than expected. The fire department said they had to cancel the show after a malfunction. No one was hurt.
A day of remembrance in Highland Park on Thursday marked two years since a tragic mass shooting during their annual 4th of July Parade.
The mother of the youngest victim in the Highland Park Fourth of July Parade shooting in 2022 said their family won't attend this year's parade but they're continuing their road to recovery two years later.
A Chicago activist was taken away in handcuffs after attempting to confront a village trustee at a board meeting in Dolton on Monday night.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away a challenge to an Illinois law banning certain semi-automatic rifles and large-capacity magazines, leaving the measure intact.
Under state law, all children living in a high-risk ZIP code must be tested for lead exposure at 12, 24, and 36 months of age.
The tax is up just 2 cents compared with Sunday. But it is quite a jump compared with the Illinois gas seven years ago.
It is a change that seeks to reduce the stigma around driving without citizenship, and to make the roads across the state safer.
Treasurer Frerichs said they still have 10 purple hearts, and he wants to return them.
The search for a swimmer who went missing Sunday afternoon at Lighthouse Beach in Evanston resumed on Monday.
The tax is up just 2 cents compared with Sunday. But it is quite a jump compared with the Illinois gas seven years ago. CBS 2 Political Reporter Chris Tye reports.
Although individual cases are no longer being counted, the CDC said that infections are "growing or likely growing" in 43 states, including Illinois and Indiana.
From a minimum wage increase to new protections for young social media stars, these laws will go into effect on July 1 and will impact thousands of residents statewide.
A woman found murdered on the side of a rural road about 50 miles southwest of Chicago in 1976 has been identified, officials announced Thursday.
