Chicago Police Officers Rescue Two Men From Burning Car After Crash
Two men survived a fiery car wreck in Gage Park early Friday, thanks to the heroics of two Chicago police officers.
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Two men survived a fiery car wreck in Gage Park early Friday, thanks to the heroics of two Chicago police officers.
A massive manhunt continued early Thursday in central Illinois, a day after a 23-year-old convicted killer escaped from a Kankakee County jail by overpowering a guard and donning his uniform.
A manhunt was underway in Kankakee County on Wednesday, after a convicted killer escaped from the county jail.
A 15-year-old girl and three of her classmates recorded consensual sex acts one week ago, and posted the video on Twitter. The girl's mother found out about the video, and reported the Twitter post to police, who seized the original recording.
Police in the far south suburbs have opened an investigation, after three of six nursing home residents who were hospitalized on the same day last month have died.
It had been a physical game between two intense rivals Wednesday night, as North Lawndale beat Marshall in the 3A sectional playoff. When the two teams lined up to shake hands, they began exchanging heated words, and soon players were throwing punches.
The handshake line at the end of a boys' basketball playoff game erupted into an all-out brawl Wednesday night, with fans rushing the court to join a fight between the two teams.
Two Aurora high school students were killed Tuesday evening, when their SUV was hit by a semi-trailer truck while they were on their way to a basketball game in far west suburban Rochelle.
Police were questioning several persons of interest Tuesday morning, after an elderly man was killed and three others were wounded, when gunfire erupted outside a home on the Far South Side.
Firefighters initially came to Janice Hooper's house after she smelled something burning and called 9-1-1 late Wednesday night. Hooper says they searched the house, found no heat source and left. Soon, the house burned down.
CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli reports on a meeting between locals and Cubs representatives.
Already in prison for the murder of his third wife, former Bolingbrook cop Drew Peterson on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to charges he tried to hire a hitman to kill the prosecutor who put him behind bars.
The former Bolingbrook cop convicted of killing one wife and suspected in the disappearance of another heads back to court Tuesday, reports CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli.
The fire started around 1:40 a.m. Tuesday in a vacant three-flat in the 7900 block of South Drexel Avenue. When crews arrived, nearby hydrants were frozen solid, so the Fire Department had to call in Water Management Department crews to heat the hydrants with steam, and get water flowing.
Some families were without water for several hours. At the peak of the problem, approximately 80 percent of the homes in Dixmoor had no water service, or only a trickle of water.
An 8-inch main burst around 1 p.m. Thursday, due to the extreme cold, causing water to flood the area.
JRW has had its Little League national title stripped away.
President Barack Obama will visit Chicago next week to designate the historic Pullman neighborhood – one of the first "company towns" in the U.S. – as a national monument.
A driver was seriously injured, and a South Side family was startled out of their beds, when the man crashed his car into a home in the Washington Heights neighborhood early Friday.
The representatives are members of the Working on Womanhood program. CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli reports.
The iconic 90-year-old Union Station is about to get a $12 million facelift, including upgrades to frequently crowded concourses, and improved temperature controls to avoid burst pipes that twice flooded the rail terminal this month.
Fans of "Mister Cub" Ernie Banks crowded into Daley Plaza on Wednesday, after his statue was installed as a public tribute to arguably the most popular Cubs player of all time.
Thousands of flights across the country have been cancelled because of the storm, including hundreds of flights in Chicago, leaving many people spending the night at the airport.
The potentially historic blizzard in the Northeast might have missed the Midwest, but it was having an impact at Chicago's airports. Numerous flights at O'Hare and Midway airports have been delayed, and some airlines have begun cancelling flights.
A dozen copies of Charlie Hebdo, the French magazine at the center of a terrorist attack in Paris, were quickly snatched up Friday morning, but more were on the way next week.
