Neighbors 'really, really nervous' with 11 violent armed robberies in Lakeview, Lincoln Park
The Lincoln Park community held a meeting about their concerns Tuesday evening.
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The Lincoln Park community held a meeting about their concerns Tuesday evening.
There were four more violent armed robberies in the greater Lakeview area overnight – making for a total of 11 in less than a week in Lakeview and neighboring Lincoln Park. CBS 2's Tara Molina reports.
There were four more violent armed robberies in the greater Lakeview area overnight – making for a total of 11 in less than a week in Lakeview and neighboring Lincoln Park. CBS 2's Tara Molina reports.
Time is running out to get one last taste of the legendary sweets at Dinkel's Bakery.
No one we talked to is debating that the bridges along the Metra Union Pacific North Line at Ravenswood Avenue need replacing. It is the way to do it that is up for debate.
Neighbors along the western edge of Lakeview are talking with Metra about a construction plan they say will destroy their yards. CBS 2's Sabrina Franza reports.
Chicago Department of Water Management work can sometimes place trees on the chopping block – but one neighborhood succeeded in saving them.
There were a lot of sad faces on Lincoln Avenue Tuesday as people heard the news that Dinkel's will close at the end of the month. CBS 2's Jermont Terry reports.
The legendary Dinkel's Bakery in West Lakeview is getting ready to close up shop. CBS 2's Jermont Terry reports.
Happy Camper Wrigleyville is donating all of its sales to the family of Hermilo Beltran, an employee who was shot and killed in the alley behind the Lakeview restaurant over the weekend.
Hermillo Beltran was shot and killed while trying to support his wife and young daughters. CBS 2's Steven Graves reports.
A man was murdered in an alley in the busy commercial district barely a block from Wrigley Field over the weekend, and it remains on the minds of people in the area. CBS 2's Steven Graves reports.
A man was murdered in an alley in the busy commercial district barely a block from Wrigley Field over the weekend, and it remains on the minds of people in the area.
Two men were recently spotted going door-to-door in Lakeview claiming to be ComEd utility workers – but they're actually thieves.
Two men were recently spotted going door-to-door in Lakeview claiming to be ComEd utility workers – but they're actually thieves. CBS 2's Sabrina Franza reports.
The Brown Line flyover north of Belmont Avenue was touted as an important part of a multibillion-dollar upgrade for the Chicago Transit Authority - so why is there crumbling concrete on the sides of the tracks just a few months after completion?
It's a complete violation – thieves breaking into your home and walking around as if they own it, touching everything in sight. That sense of having one's space invaded is something a Lakeview couple and their kids have been coping with after they were burglarized this week.
The school used to be called Agassiz Elementary, but was re-named for Tubman last June.
Following the snowstorm that walloped the Chicago area Wednesday evening, some side streets in Lakeview and Uptown remained a mess – which was not a surprise.
A yellow Labrador retriever was recovering Thursday after his paws were shocked while he was simply walking down the street.
We first told you about the horrifying hit-and-run crash in Wrigleyville back in August – two young women were struck at the corner of Addison and Fremont streets, and one of them died. Now, four months later, the man behind the wheel of the BMW that hit the young women has been indicted by a grand jury.
One of the four grabbed a cash register and smashed it on the floor.
Business owners on the city's North Side have been demanding action from police since violent robberies have been taking over their neighborhoods.
A woman was attacked, beaten, and robbed by eight people Wednesday evening near Belmont and Sheffield avenues in Lakeview.
Police have tied two robberies in East Lakeview in which people were shot to a greater pattern of robberies that goes back to mid-November.
A person was fatally hit by a Metra train in Palatine, Illinois, early Friday morning.
A teen was shot and killed in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on Thursday night.
Even though tickets to get into the Obama Presidential Center's museum are sold out through October, people can still explore other aspects of the $850 million campus that are free and open to the public
The Chicago White Sox ended a nine-game losing streak at Yankee Stadium with a 5-1 victory over New York on Thursday.
A man has been charged in the shooting death of a bicyclist in Grant Park in downtown Chicago on Tuesday morning.
Delivering the keynote address at the opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago Thursday, it was clear that "hope" is still at the core of President Barack Obama's legacy and mission.
A federal judge ruled ICE failed to show enough evidence to justify holding Salah Sarsour, a legal permanent resident detained for 80 days after speaking out in support of Palestinian rights.
Former first lady Michelle Obama delivered a loving and heartfelt tribute to her husband at the Obama Presidential Center's grand opening ceremony in Chicago Thursday.
A look back at the key turning points in Barack Obama's political career, from his early days as a state senator representing Hyde Park to two terms in the White House.
The Obama Presidential Center, museum and library opens in Chicago with a star-studded grand opening ceremony and public watch party on Midway Plaisance.
An Illinois law banning "swipe fees" on taxes and tips — already delayed twice by lawmakers — appears to be on life support after a federal judge that once permitted it issued a permanent injunction against it this week.
A new study from the Cook County Treasurer's office underlines growing concerns about the impact the Illinois megaprojects bill could have on the county's property tax base and overall fiscal health.
As thousands of Chicagoans wrap up road trips over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, gas prices in the city have reached the highest levels seen in four years.
Consumer and environmental advocates said Monday that they found overcharges buried in the most recent rate-hike request by Nicor.
One week away from Memorial Day weekend and the unofficial start of the summer travel season, with gas prices remaining high, negotiations were set to resume Monday at the largest oil refinery in the Midwest.
After Bruce Willis was diagnosed with dementia, his wife Emma Heming Willis found a new purpose as a health advocate.
The North Shore suburb of Wilmette this week became the latest Chicago-area municipality to discover mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus this year.
Dr. Peter Stafford was working with a missionary group in the Congo when he came down with the virus last month.
While 330 Ebola infections are confirmed in central Africa and huge challenges remain, hundreds more suspected cases "have been cleared out," the WHO says.
June is World Infertility Awareness Month, and Northwestern Medicine on Monday shared the story of a woman who is celebrating the birth of her second child after a tumor disrupted her fertility.
Daley's Restaurant, known as Chicago's oldest, has served Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood for more than 130 years.
Walgreens is set to close in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood on Thursday, and there's growing concern about where families will get their medications.
The owners of Gene & Georgetti steakhouse are suing a concessions operator over their expansion at Midway International Airport.
DraftKings announced Monday that it is closing its sportsbook operation at Wrigley Field after only about two years.
After more than 80 years, there will be no Ann Sather restaurant location in the 900 block of West Belmont Avenue in Chicago's Lakeview community, effective in June.
Tom Dreesen, a pioneering actor and comedian and Chicago-area native, died Wednesday.
Luke Skywalker's lightsaber from the "Star Wars" sequel "The Empire Strikes Back" is expected to sell for at least $1 million at an upcoming auction.
Rio de Janeiro's Military Fire Department said one of the helicopters crashed in the parking lot of a car dealership, where several electric vehicles were parked, igniting a fire.
Actress Sarah Jessica Parker addressed the Class of 2026 at Northwestern University at their commencement ceremony at the United Center Sunday.
Forty years ago last weekend, crowds turned out for the Chicago Blues Festival — an event studded with a roster of stars for a spectacle that's still talked about today.
Meteorologist Laura Bannon has the forecast.
Chicago police said officers responded to 80th and Carpenter just after 11:30 p.m. for a call of a person shot. Officers found a 14-year-old boy with multiple gunshot wounds.
Chief meteorologist Albert Ramon has the latest First Alert Weather forecast.
The opening of the Obama Presidential Center on Thursday was a soundtrack of the Obama years, featuring some of the biggest names in music honoring the nation’s 44th president
The Chicago man accused of burning a cross in Grant Park last week made his first court appearance on Thursday, as a judge denied prosecutors' request to keep him locked up until trial.
A teen was shot and killed in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on Thursday night.
A person was fatally hit by a Metra train in Palatine, Illinois, early Friday morning.
The Obama Presidential Center's grand opening ceremony featured a star-studded lineup of tributes, speeches and musical performances.
Even though tickets to get into the Obama Presidential Center's museum are sold out through October, people can still explore other aspects of the $850 million campus that are free and open to the public
A man has been charged in the shooting death of a bicyclist in Grant Park in downtown Chicago on Tuesday morning.
"A house of horrors." That's how one former Chicago foster child described Aunt Martha's Integrated Care Center, a facility that's been at the center of a years-long CBS News Chicago investigation.
Kindbody entered into an agreement with a cryogenic storage facility in Massachusetts, but not all patients received the email.
A Chicago woman says a life insurance policy she paid into for 25 years was cancelled over a $112 shortfall that she never knew existed, and now, at 82 years old, she's uninsurable.
The Crisis Alternative Response Evanston, or CARE, team responds to calls that, before July 2024, would have been lumped into police calls.
The system will provide all heating, cooling, and ventilation for the high school's new physical education facilities and contribute to the school system, saving the district nearly $400,000 a year.
The Chicago White Sox ended a nine-game losing streak at Yankee Stadium with a 5-1 victory over New York on Thursday.
Matt Shaw got the Cubs going in the second with a two-run triple and Carson Kelly followed with an RBI double to set the stage for Swanson's first home run since May 18.
The surging New York Yankees used another big inning to beat the Chicago White Sox 10-5 on Wednesday night.
He says that, though his career ended early, coaching was a way to stay involved.
The three-game series wraps up Wednesday with Rockies LHP Sean Sullivan facing Cubs RHP Javier Assad.
A federal judge ruled ICE failed to show enough evidence to justify holding Salah Sarsour, a legal permanent resident detained for 80 days after speaking out in support of Palestinian rights.
A sport-utility vehicle rammed into a Shell gas station mini mart in what was believed to be an attempted crash-and-grab burglary in Chicago's East Pilsen neighborhood.
Luigi Mangione's lawyers will argue that he was suffering from an extreme emotional disturbance when he allegedly killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Rex Heuermann was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the series of murders known as the Gilgo Beach serial killings.
A man from Chicago's south suburbs was sentenced to more than 33 years in prison last week for running an online chat group that trafficked in child pornography.
