PETA Protests 'The Hobbit,' Claiming Deaths Of Animals During Filming
The activists were not asking people to boycott The Hobbit. They said they just want the film industry to stop using animals.
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The activists were not asking people to boycott The Hobbit. They said they just want the film industry to stop using animals.
About 500 students at King College Prep High School in the North Kenwood neighborhood staged a sit-in on Thursday, demanding the new principal; and an end to new rules that limit their access to the school, its labs, tutors, and teachers after normal school hours.
A leader in the NAACP is pushing back against a mindset that if you're black you vote for Democrats.
A south suburban restaurant was handing out free Twinkies to customers on Wednesday.
Hundreds of volunteers unloaded 1,600 Christmas trees from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw at Navy Pier on Saturday. The trees will go to families who can't afford one.
Fans of the late comedienne Gilda Radner don't have to worry about the cancer support network Gilda's Club Chicago changing its name like its counterpart in Madison, Wis.
This year will go down as another record-setting year for high gas prices in the Chicago area.
With the holiday season upon us, and larger crowds out on the streets, in the stores, and riding trains and buses, police were warning to be on guard against pickpockets and cell phone thieves.
CBS 2's Dana Kozlov broke the news of Jackson's resignation to a lot of his former constituents in the 2nd Congressional District. The reaction was decidedly mixed.
Drew Peterson's lawyers have filed a motion seeking to have his conviction tossed out, because of ineffective counsel by former lead defense attorney Joel Brodsky.
Four men who were cleared last year of the 1994 rape and murder of a woman in the Englewood neighborhood have filed a lawsuit claiming they were framed by police.
The Election Day victories for same-sex marriage in several states have supporters of the effort in Illinois saying the atmosphere has changed, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Tuesday that he'd lead an effort to legalize same-sex marriages in Illinois as well
Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Tuesday he believes the atmosphere is right in Washington, D.C., for an agreement to be reached before the nation collectively goes off the proverbial fiscal cliff.
Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White said Saturday he hopes state lawmakers find a way to oust Derrick Smith from the Illinois House again, after he was re-elected despite being ousted by his colleagues over his bribery indictment.
Three Apollo program astronauts will have their footprints set into concrete on Tuesday at the Adler Planetarium, in a ceremony to honor veterans of the final moon landing.
Gov. Pat Quinn said Friday he disagrees that the new veto-proof majorities for Democrats in the Illinois House and Senate next year will reduce his own authority.
A Republican state lawmaker says he can't believe Derrick Smith was able to win back his seat in the Illinois House, even though he's been indicted for bribery, and he wants his colleagues in the legislature to find a way to expel Smith from the House a second time.
Some residents of the trendy Bucktown neighborhood want to see a homeless encampment taken down, but it appears that the law is on the side of the people living there. One resident said passersby need to stop "feeding the bears."
Five days before the election, Republican Congressman Joe Walsh said his Democratic opponent, Tammy Duckworth, needs to come clean about her treatment of two state workers when she headed the Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs. But Duckworth said she is "disgusted" that Walsh has been trying to use veterans' issues for political gain.
Police in Naperville have charged the suspect in the stabbing deaths of two small children at a suburban town home overnight.
Some ComEd crews and others from the Chicago area have started heading east, ahead of Hurricane Sandy, to be in place to help with recovery once the storm makes landing next week.
Hundreds of birds that had been flying free in a trash-strewn townhome in Aurora were in a new home on Saturday.
Some Chicago neighborhood activists will be out on Halloween night, trying to protect trick-or-treaters from egg-throwers.
The Chicago Police Department is giving gunshot detection technology another try.
The man who is trying to unseat Will County State's Attorney Jim Glasgow is getting help campaigning from a police officer wrongly accused of murder by Glasgow two years ago.
A man was killed and a woman was wounded early Sunday morning in a shooting in the South Chicago community early Sunday.
A mass shooting sent six people to the hospital in Chicago's Humboldt Park community overnight Saturday into Sunday, police sources said.
A teen takeover ended with multiple people in police custody in Chicago's Englewood community overnight Saturday into Sunday.
One woman was killed and another was hospitalized after a shooting in Chicago's Roseland community early Sunday.
The WNBA celebrated its 30th season by holding its first All-Star Game in Chicago since 2022.
President Trump cracked jokes at the redo of the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Friday night, after an armed assailant upended April's dinner.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has purchased commercial spyware that can covertly take control of phones, collect messages, photos and location information.
A new lawsuit argues that Wisconsin's elections commission is wrongly blocking absentee voters from canceling their ballots and requesting new ones, with nearly 91,000 ballots already returned ahead of the Aug. 11 primary.
The Illinois Legislative Ethics Commission voted on Thursday to publish a report outlining details of the investigation that led to state Rep. Harry Benton (D-Chicago) to resign his post earlier this month.
Voters in Chicago will have a chance to decide in November if the city should go after the federal government for money spent dealing with the Trump Administration's immigration crackdown and Operation Midway Blitz.
The Trump administration is taking aim at power grid operator PJM Interconnection over rising electricity bills that affect Illinois and Indiana residents.
Chicago remained the most bed bug-treated city in the country, according to Orkin's latest annual rankings covering a full year of residential and commercial treatment data.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul this week warned residents cleaning up from last month's storms to be on the lookout for scams.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday signed several new consumer protections into law, including a ban on junk fees.
CBS News Chicago has learned that Illinois home insurance premiums are not only higher than the nation's average, but going up faster too.
East Chicago, Indiana is being placed on a precautionary boil water advisory starting Monday morning for planned installations that could affect water safety.
A new Northwestern Medicine study on long COVID shows women show more neurological symptoms than men.
A lettuce supplier to fast-food giant Taco Bell has been linked to a nationwide cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened thousands of people, the CDC said.
Chicago just barely made the top 20 in the American College of Sports Medicine's 2026 ranking of the country's fittest cities.
In a major turnaround in the opioid crisis, overdose deaths are falling across Chicago and Cook County.
The food deserts on Chicago's South and West sides could spread even wider if seven Save A Lot grocery stores close.
Illinois American Water and Aqua Illinois are both seeking rate increases that would raise monthly bills by as much as $28, while their parent companies seek regulatory approval to merge — a deal a consumer watchdog says would give one company control of nearly all regulated water customers in the state.
The Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general from several states secured a right-to-repair settlement Wednesday with agriculture equipment giant Deere & Co. — commonly known as John Deere — that requires the company to let farmers and independent shops fix their own equipment.
Chicago Soul Café opened Monday at 6248 S. St. Lawrence Ave.
The Chicago Bears this weekend said they are assessing land at Wolf Lake Terminals in Hammond, Indiana, for a possible new stadium.
Paramount Skydance on Friday said it would delay the deal until as late as June 2027.
Iowa announced a fall exhibition game against Kansas at the Field of Dreams ballpark, where major and minor league games have been played since 2021.
Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" is the first film shot entirely on 70mm IMAX cameras, and Cinemark Seven Bridges in Woodridge is 1 of roughly 30 theaters nationwide equipped to show it that way.
Brenda Fricker won an Academy Award for 1989's "My Left Foot," played the Pigeon Lady in "Home Alone 2" and appeared in "A Time to Kill" and "So I Married an Axe Murderer."
The actor's agent said he was providing more information following news reports "which contain inaccuracies and outright falsehoods."
A mass shooting sent six people to the hospital in Chicago’s Humboldt Park community overnight Saturday into Sunday, police sources said. Asal Rezaei reports.
Meteorologist Mary Kay Kleist has your 6 a.m. First Alert Weather forecast for Sunday, July 26, 2026.
A teen takeover ended with multiple people in police custody in Chicago’s Englewood community overnight Saturday into Sunday. Asal Rezaei reports.
One woman was killed and another was hospitalized after a shooting in Chicago’s Roseland community early Sunday.
Firefighters in the woodlands in southeast Texas say they get several calls each summer from residents hearing what they believe are barking dogs trapped in neighborhood storm drains.
A mass shooting sent six people to the hospital in Chicago's Humboldt Park community overnight, police sources said.
A teen takeover ended with multiple people in police custody in Chicago's Englewood community overnight Saturday into Sunday.
One woman was killed and another was hospitalized after a shooting in Chicago's Roseland community early Sunday.
Initial reports say the crash involved two boats and at least one of them may have flipped over.
A man was killed and a woman was wounded early Sunday morning in a shooting in the South Chicago community early Sunday.
While Mayor Brandon Johnson hasn't announced if he will run for re-election next year, he's boasting about lower vacancy rates for Mag Mile buildings and taking credit for the positive changes.
A Lockport foster parent said he lost his kids, job and home for months after a mix-up that landed his name on the Illinois Sex Offender Registry.
Record heat and major air quality issues created by wildfire smoke were key topics as some of the top climate leaders from around the world gathered in Chicago this week for the Aspen Institute's annual climate summit.
Police say a man and a woman were last seen speaking with the victim before the shooting.
Neighbors in the Avalon Park neighborhood said their community has been plagued by squatters, weeds, rats, and water leaks – all thanks to an abandoned home that's been sitting vacant for years.
The WNBA celebrated its 30th season by holding its first All-Star Game in Chicago since 2022.
Jeremy Peña finished with three of Houston's six hits and scored twice.
Pete Crow-Armstrong was 4 for 5 with a home run and three RBIs as the Chicago Cubs cruised past the Pittsburgh Pirates 11-0.
Christian Walker hit a three-run double, Cam Smith added a two-run homer in Houston's eight-run sixth inning and the Astros overcame a five-run deficit to beat the Chicago White Sox 8-5 on Friday night.
WNBA All-Star weekend festivities continue. Chicago is the center of the women's basketball universe and fan interest has grown for this event.
A man was killed and a woman was wounded early Sunday morning in a shooting in the South Chicago community early Sunday.
A mass shooting sent six people to the hospital in Chicago's Humboldt Park community overnight Saturday into Sunday, police sources said.
One woman was killed and another was hospitalized after a shooting in Chicago's Roseland community early Sunday.
Madison, Wisconsin remains one of the only cities of its size without a police body camera program, leaving key moments of a fatal officer-involved shooting unrecorded.
A man was killed and a teenage boy was wounded in a shooting on Thursday evening in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago.
