Teachers Already Crying Foul As Strike Authorization Vote Wraps Up
The city could soon know whether Chicago Public Schools teachers are going to authorize a strike, but the teachers are already crying foul.
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The city could soon know whether Chicago Public Schools teachers are going to authorize a strike, but the teachers are already crying foul.
Chicago Public Schools teachers began voting today on whether to authorize a strike.
The Drew Peterson murder trial – one of the biggest trials ever to take place in Will County – might not begin at the courthouse in Joliet.
A daycare operator says she had to close up shop because a nonprofit economic development agency failed to pay her -- and says she'll never get all the money she's owed.
Demolition crews are clearing away what is left of Roy's Furniture Company in the Lincoln Park neighborhood, which was reduced to rubble by an extra-alarm fire Tuesday afternoon.
A Cook County judge has approved an $18.5 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by the family of a young woman who was severely injured while working as an extra on the movie Transformers 3
With just four days to go before the NATO Summit, protesters have already been making their presence known for three days.
Seven of the eight protesters who were arrested outside President Barack Obama's campaign headquarters on Monday were released from jail Tuesday.
The Blackhawks are hoping to even the score in more ways than one in Game 4 against the Phoenix Coyotes at the United Center Thursday night.
Leadfoots look out, speed cameras are coming to Chicago this summer.
The fight is escalating to save a mental health clinic in the Woodlawn neighborhood, as protesters camp outside in the second high-profile demonstration in a week.
Crews Monday morning were working to repair a water main break in Northbrook.
It's a crime so brazen, the mayor even reached out to call at least one victim's family members. Now, the young man Mayor Rahm Emanuel inquired about is talking for the first time on camera.
CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli has the story of one of the boys who survived a shooting that left a 13-year-old dead.
No matter how you feel about the Cubs, Opening Day at Wrigley Field is special. Even though the Cubs lost to the Nationals, Thursday was no exception.
Inmates at Cook County Jail are being charged up to $15 per call for local phone calls, and the company that operates the jail's phones and the county are both raking in huge profits because of it.
Dozens of illegal immigrants who had been convicted of serious crimes – or were otherwise considered fugitives or threats to national security – have been arrested in the Chicago area as part of a nationwide sweep that captured approximately 3,100 immigrants.
The pastor of a West Side church says 57 young lives have been lost to gun violence in Chicago since the beginning of the school year, so he's calling on his congregation to show their outrage over the loss of innocent lives, including Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.
A judge has denied bond for a 20-year-old man charged with shooting and trying to kill a Chicago Police officer earlier this week in the South Chicago neighborhood.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made a crack about the purported Chicago tradition of voting early and often Friday, as he campaigned at a restaurant in Rosemont.
Veteran law enforcement officers said it's a drug manufacturing operation unlike any they'd ever seen. CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli takes an exclusive look inside the hidden world of a sophisticated drug grow house on the West Side, following a raid by the Chicago Police Department's Central Anti-Violence Task Force.
A 16-year-old girl was hospitalized Tuesday after being stabbed at Hirsch Metro High School in the Grand Crossing neighborhood.
A Chicago-based group is calling for a recall of the Bumbo Seat, saying the product puts kids in danger. CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli reports.
Six downstate residents were killed, and more than 100 others were injured, in a powerful storm with an EF4 tornado slammed southern Illinois early Wednesday.
The outbound Kennedy Expressway was shut down at Division Street early Wednesday, following a pin-in accident involving a wrong-way driver.
