Police Step Up Patrols After Lakefront, Downtown Mob Attacks
Sources say in the past three weeks, there have been more than 35 arrests for wilding and flash mob incidents in downtown Chicago.
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Sources say in the past three weeks, there have been more than 35 arrests for wilding and flash mob incidents in downtown Chicago.
Firefighters quickly put out a small fire at the historic Water Tower Tuesday morning – so fast, in fact, that the tower remained open to visitors the whole time.
A sport-utility vehicle and a pickup truck crashed in the heart of downtown Chicago this morning.
Police are looking for a 17-year-old girl who has been missing for nearly a month from the Bronzeville neighborhood.
A man on parole for armed robbery was charged Monday with a brutal attack on 65-year-old northwest suburban man found walking downtown early Saturday badly beaten and covered in blood.
A bloody homeless man was found walking in the Loop early Saturday morning after being beaten and sodomized with a tree branch, according to police.
U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk has applauded the idea of U.S. support for enforcement of the no-fly zone in Libya, which he believes will tilt momentum back to the rebellion against Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi.
About 1,000 anti-war protesters were marching through downtown Chicago Saturday afternoon to mark the eighth anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq.
Streets around two of Chicago's tallest buildings remained closed to traffic Tuesday evening, due to concerns about falling ice.
Stores on the Mag Mile are on alert after several thefts involving flash mobs. In each case, a group of teens create a disturbance, steal items and then run from the stores.
About 500 protesters brought the crisis in Egypt to the Magnificent Mile, staging an hour-long protest Friday in which they called for free and fair elections.
In just a few hours, pro-democracy demonstrators will picket the Egyptian Consulate.
Retailer Loehmann's closes this weekend on State Street, the latest store to close downtown. But hope may be on the horizon, CBS 2's Dorothy Tucker reports.
Eleven teenagers have been arrested after they allegedly shoplifted merchandise from three stores on North Michigan Avenue on Wednesday.
Police are asking for the public's help finding a 15-year-old girl who disappeared on the city's South Side.
An autopsy has concluded that a woman found dead in an abandoned Roseland neighborhood building this week was the victim of a homicide.
Fire crews were sent to an explosion in a ComEd vault downtown this morning.
Thanksgiving may spell parades, football, and good times with family for most. But this year, there's a good chance you, or someone you know, broke with tradition and went shopping.
A beeping package found by a janitor Monday morning near the Magnificent Mile has been deemed safe.
A female student from Roosevelt University was robbed of her iPhone near the downtown school early Monday.
Michigan Avenue boasts some of the best shopping in the United States.
