South Shore Funeral Home Accused Of Improperly Storing Bodies
A former worker said bodies were not properly stored in coolers, but instead were placed in the garage in winter and cooled with frozen water packs in summer.
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A former worker said bodies were not properly stored in coolers, but instead were placed in the garage in winter and cooled with frozen water packs in summer.
For two weeks, the body of a 72-year-old woman from southwest suburban Worth lay beneath a foot of debris in the basement of her home.
The City Council Finance Committee is expected to approve a $1.75 million settlement to compensate the family of a 13-year-old girl who died after a series of alleged mistakes by Chicago Fire Department paramedics.
After 122 years of helping Chicagoans in need, Hull House shut its doors for good Friday after running out of money.
Police in northwest Indiana and Chicago were trying to solve a wild case on Wednesday, after a woman was killed in South Bend and a car linked to the case turned up in Chicago.
Bitter cold has set in after the snowstorm Thursday, as people struggle to get around, clean up, and start their cars.
Spring in January is officially over, as the first major snowstorm of the season blanketed the Chicago area, forcing airlines to cancel hundreds of flights and threatening to make a mess of the evening rush.
For 20,000 years, people have been using fire to cremate their loved ones. Now, for the first time, there's a new way to do cremations and, if Gov. Pat Quinn signs a measure approved by the legislature, it could be available in Illinois by march.
A Chicago man is dead from injuries suffered in a fight. But it was a match he willingly engaged in with a man he met in an Internet chat room.
Dozens of Chicago area soldiers came home Friday after a nearly year-long deployment in Afghanistan. As CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli reports, the timing makes it a December to remember.
A Naval officer from far north suburban Wadsworth is home after a 10-month deployment to Afghanistan surprised his children and their classmates Friday by making their school his first stop.
Critics say the village is "butchering" trees, but officials say they're trying to keep everyone safe. CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli reports.
It's the world's most popular sport and now there's new evidence that playing soccer can damage your brain.
An owner believes someone tried to kill his racehorse last week to keep it from running for a $100,000 purse next month.
As the economy limps along, demand at food pantries skyrockets. That's why some are changing the way they do business this Thanksgiving, CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli reports.
A gunman walked into a FedEx facility in Beford Park with guns blazing Thursday morning, then committed suicide.
An angry mother is demanding answers, after her young son told her he was threatened with a BB gun at a Chicago Public elementary school on the city's Far South Side.
The Chicago Transit Authority is looking to try a high-tech method to make paying for your commute a little easier, without exact change or disposable fare cards.
A 6-year-old boy was critically injured Sunday morning when he was shot in the chest in the Morgan Park neighborhood.
If you believe in rabbit's feet, or fear walking under ladders, Friday was a day you either looked forward to -- or approached with great dread.
They went in wearing masks and came out carrying dozens of dogs and cats. Now, an Elmwood Park man and his mother are under arrest for keeping dozens of animals in a home so filthy it was deemed uninhabitable.
There are thousands of restaurants in Chicago and many of them are operating outside the law by not offering proper public restroom facilities.
A former high school football player will spend the next 16 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl.
Police are searching for a gunman who opened fire in the Albany Park neighborhood on Halloween night, wounding a 10-year-old boy.
It was just before Halloween four years ago that Bolingbrook mother Stacy Peterson vanished. On Tuesday, her sister Cassandra Cales spoke exclusively to CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli.
