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.
