Demolition Begins At Motel Where Pastor Camped Out
Demolition crews are at work on the 6600 block of South King Drive, tearing down the old motel where a minister spent more than three months living in a tent on the roof.
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Demolition crews are at work on the 6600 block of South King Drive, tearing down the old motel where a minister spent more than three months living in a tent on the roof.
In West Dundee, parents won't have to buy a membership at a health club or a YMCA for their kids to get swimming lessons. They'll only have to go the mall.
Starting this Sunday, lottery players will be able to buy tickets online.
The family of a Joliet nursing home resident is suing the facility, alleging it failed to prevent the abuse of as many as two dozen patients.
Gov. Pat Quinn's plan to close the Tinley Park Mental Health Facility is getting a big thumbs down from officials in Will County.
Voters in Kendall County nominated a new auditor and a new recorder Tuesday, while at the same time voting to eliminate their positions.
Michael Jordan's mansion and estate in Highland Park is no longer the only Jordan property up for sale.
An Uptown neighborhood couple turned themselves into police Tuesday, after allegedly leaving their kids home alone for two days.
A local man says he turned his phone off Monday, after literally getting political robocalls every couple minutes.
It's the time of year dreaded by suburban school districts – when RIFs, or reductions In force, are announced.
It appears that if you don't have a lot of voters, you don't have a lot of problems.
A single mother from Chicago, now living full-time in Israel, says she's given up on having her children become United States citizens.
The Chicago River glowed a luminescent emerald green. WBBM Newsradio's Mike Krauser spent some time with the dye crew on the river bank near the Michigan Avenue Bridge.
Believe it or not, there's a snowmobile race going on in southern Wisconsin this summery weekend.
A $5,000 reward is being offered for information concerning the whereabouts of an Aurora woman, who has been missing with her kids for more than a month.
You've probably been reminded multiple times that it's still technically winter, but spring clearly is not waiting for the calendar. Even tiny frogs know it.
A former teacher at Metea Valley High School in Aurora has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a student.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel met with immigrant small business owners Thursday at a restaurant in the Little Village neighborhood, where he announced a public-private partnership to help small business growth in immigrant communities.
Some Englewood neighborhood residents are asking that the city shut down scrap yards, saying they are contributing to the destruction of the community.
An elderly man from rural Will County died Wednesday, after being overcome by flames while working in his yard.
A crowd of frustrated soccer moms, dads and players gathered Monday night at a meeting of Aurora's Indian Prairie School Board, protesting a plan to eliminate middle school soccer.
If you're driving down the Eisenhower Expressway on the city's West Side, you might do a double take as you pass a new billboard featuring a dire warning about "butt cancer."
City Hall is apologizing. Parking tickets issued during Friday's funeral procession for a Marine from Beverly have been voided.
A Carpentersville man is being held on $3 million bond on multiple heinous crimes – including beating a woman with a hammer, raping an 8-year-old girl, and stabbing a dog.
A Waukegan man is facing drug and theft charges after police say they caught him running a phony drug rehab home.
The 24-year-old will catch and bat fourth in his season debut against the Guardians, returning from hamstring and knee injuries originally suffered in the World Baseball Classic.
The game will be made up as a day-night doubleheader on Wednesday, and the four-game series will begin Tuesday.
The tricycle was stolen from the family's back porch in Berwyn last week.
The search for the missing teen continued during the weekend before she was recovered on Sunday.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has said agents will take a less public-facing approach, and the chair of the Illinois Accountability Commission says he is already hearing signs of a new arrest uptick.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has said agents will take a less public-facing approach, and the chair of the Illinois Accountability Commission says he is already hearing signs of a new arrest uptick.
Etan Patz walked out of his New York City home headed for a school bus stop in May of 1979. He never made it to school and has never been found.
Illinois state and local lawmakers gathered Sunday to remember trailblazing state lawmaker Barbara Flynn Currie.
Alan Greenspan's lengthy reign at the Federal Reserve coincided with a period of stability from the mid-1980s until 2007.
Keir Starmer will step down as U.K. Prime Minister weeks after a brutal round of local elections and as he faced a challenge from within his Labour Party.
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.
Illinois is among the top 13 states seeing a rise in alpha-gal syndrome cases, with residents living in southern Illinois at the highest risk, according to a 2025 study.
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.
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.
Clive Davis helped shape the careers of music stars including Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen and Whitney Houston.
Claude Guillemot and a flight instructor were flying in a twin-motor Cessna 421 on Friday evening. An investigation into the crash is underway.
James Burrows directed more than 1,000 episodes of television, including every episode of the original "Will & Grace."
In a full circle moment, actor Gary Cole returns to the very same local stage where he began his professional acting career.
Record producer Tay Keith was found dead in his Nashville home by officers performing a welfare check, police said.
Teel says he feels fresh and it showed during his second rehab stint in Charlotte, hitting .500 with a home run in four games. His bat and personality are sure to provide a boost ahead of an AL Central showdown.
Johnson attended the ribbon-cutting for the new $27 million one-acre space.
The mall on Chicago’s South Side is now permanently shut down by court order. City inspectors found the fire suppression system has leaked for the last two years and wouldn't properly put out a fire.
Both attacks were reported near rainbow beach within a week. The first happened on June 13 and the second on June 15.
The search for the missing teen continued during the weekend before she was recovered on Sunday. Coroners identified the teen as 16-year-old Destiny Neal from Elgin.
After a violent holiday weekend, Chicago city leaders are expected to announce new support for a dedicated Department of Gun Violence Prevention.
An explosion prompted a major evacuation in Dixon, Illinois, Monday morning.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has said agents will take a less public-facing approach, and the chair of the Illinois Accountability Commission says he is already hearing signs of a new arrest uptick.
The tricycle was stolen from the family's back porch in Berwyn last week.
The search for the missing teen continued during the weekend before she was recovered on Sunday.
Newly released cell phone video of a police shooting in south suburban Country Club Hills appears to contradict what a federal agent claims happened during an undercover gun trafficking sting operation last week.
"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 24-year-old will catch and bat fourth in his season debut against the Guardians, returning from hamstring and knee injuries originally suffered in the World Baseball Classic.
The game will be made up as a day-night doubleheader on Wednesday, and the four-game series will begin Tuesday.
The Chicago Hounds won their first-ever championship over the weekend, in just their fourth year of existence.
Chicago's first documented professional team was founded back in 1870. The white stockings, who eventually became the Chicago Cubs, not the White Sox.
Dillon Dingler homered and drove in the tying run in the ninth, Matt Vierling's bloop single finished off Detroit's comeback as the Tigers beat the Chicago White Sox 5-4 in 10 innings on Sunday.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has said agents will take a less public-facing approach, and the chair of the Illinois Accountability Commission says he is already hearing signs of a new arrest uptick.
Chicago police on Monday issued a community alert about two sexual assaults that occurred in the South Shore community this month.
Etan Patz walked out of his New York City home headed for a school bus stop in May of 1979. He never made it to school and has never been found.
Chicago police on Monday morning were investigating a break-in at a smoke shop in the Portage Park community.
After a violent holiday weekend, Chicago city leaders are expected to announce new support for a dedicated Department of Gun Violence Prevention.
