Three Hospitalized After Fire At Edgewater Apartment Building
Three people were taken to hospitals after an extra-alarm fire Sunday morning in the Edgewater neighborhood on the North Side.
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Three people were taken to hospitals after an extra-alarm fire Sunday morning in the Edgewater neighborhood on the North Side.
"If I was nice to you, I'd get canned. If you want good service, you go somewhere else," Ed Debevic's waitress Kryssie Ridolfi told an Idaho family who stopped in to the diner to check out their signature snarky behavior.
The governor's office has launched an investigation as four email addresses released end in Illinois.gov. CBS 2's Dana Kozlov reports the state worker email addresses aren't the only ones from Illinois.
Cars are driving slowly down Longfellow Avenue as drivers take in and take pictures of the bright orange, yellow and purple stripes that now adorn one side of a home.
Euclid Avenue in northwest suburban Arlington Heights was reopened Tuesday morning, after Monday night's storms knocked down trees and power lines, prompting the street's closure.
Staffers for Lucky Lab Rescue picked up two females and two males - Labrador mixes and one partially paralyzed mutt - at O'hare that were part of the meat trade in South Korea.
After 23 years with the Chicago police department, Officer Richard Wooten retires today, but he says he's not done working to make the city safer.
Tommy Schneider has been holding camps and clinics in and around Chicago for years, in an effort to get kids more active. Now he's taken his quest on the road.
Gary police arrested a woman early this morning for what they're calling a very disturbing crime.
A group of Chicago Democrats in the state legislature is pushing for voters to decide who serves on the school board. Not the mayor.
Father Michael Pfleger says it's not enough to just remember Michael Brown, but force the country to address the issue of what he calls the genocide of black youth.
Urban gardeners are getting an apology after their landlord accidentally destroyed some of their crop in Chicago's North Center.
WBBM's Nancy Harty reports their union says that doesn't bode well for contract talks.
The principal of a Chicago public high school credited with a resurgence has resigned amid an investigation. WBBM's Nancy Harty talked with a parent who says she experienced some of what allegedly led to the principal's ouster.
Hundreds of motorcycle riders came out Sunday morning for the 11th annual Ride to Remember honoring fallen Chicago police officers, reports WBBM's Nancy Harty.
Two men were killed and a woman was hurt in a shooting early Sunday in the West Side Humboldt Park neighborhood.
Aurora police are looking for two men wanted for attempted abductions of teen girls in separate incidents this month, reports WBBM's Nancy Harty.
Two Chicago high schools will start the new school year without their principals, who have been removed by the Chicago Public Schools, amid separate investigations by the district's inspector general.
A Northwest Side alderman is upset over the city's move to dig up a popular side street and is calling it the Meigs Field of the 45th Ward, reports WBBM's Nancy Harty.
If your child starts acting up as soon as you get on your cell phone, a local psychologist says a new survey shows there's good reason.
Chicago police are investigating the deaths of a woman and her three young sons - their bodies found Saturday night in a home in the Chatham neighborhood.
A new Mariano's Fresh Market opening next summer in Bronzeville plans to bring a lot more than groceries to the neighborhood.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has tapped his top aide, Forrest Claypool, to run the Chicago Public Schools, and former ComEd chief executive officer Frank Clark as president of the Chicago Board of Education, a move the Chicago Teachers Union derided as more of the same from City Hall.
If all the rain we've had so far this summer has made it difficult to keep up with mowing your lawn, there's a new app that promises to help.
Before you sign your son up for fall baseball, you may want to listen to the results of a new study.
While Keith Burton survived his father's alcohol addiction and violence, he would later watch addiction nearly destroy his son.
It's summer and that means there's plenty to do, especially if you want to get outside this weekend.
It was Chicago's ninth shutout loss of the season, tied with the Giants for the second-most in the majors. The Padres have 10.
Former White Sox Aaron Civale (5-7) took the loss for the Athletics after surrendering four runs on six hits in 2 1/3 innings.
It was originally meant to last until October 24 to help with capacity and potential delays.
Graham Platner had until 5 p.m. on Monday to formally suspend his campaign or he would remain on the ballot in November.
In the plan under discussion, the Secret Service and the White House would be able to open and close sections of the fencing, sources said.
Eight months ago, Hegseth told top military leaders there would be "no more beardos" and "fat troops."
President Trump said Friday he won't sign the law, but a U.S. official said he isn't expected to veto it either.
The U.S. military released a new batch of files related to UFOs, including one report from a Navy pilot who said a mysterious object was "unlike anything I had seen" in 28 years of service.
Chicago remained the most bed bug-treated city in the country, according to Orkin's latest annual rankings covering a full year of residential and commercial treatment data.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul this week warned residents cleaning up from last month's storms to be on the lookout for scams.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday signed several new consumer protections into law, including a ban on junk fees.
CBS News Chicago has learned that Illinois home insurance premiums are not only higher than the nation's average, but going up faster too.
As an alternative to legalizing video gambling terminals citywide, Bally's offered to open slot machine lounges at O'Hare and Midway, saying the move would replace the $6.8 million the city budgeted from VGTs.
In a major turnaround in the opioid crisis, overdose deaths are falling across Chicago and Cook County.
The north Chicago suburb of Glenview became the latest Illinois municipality this week to confirm mosquitoes testing positive for the West Nile virus this year.
Environmental and community groups are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to act on a petition challenging U.S. Steel Gary Works operating permit renewal.
In the four years since Roe v. Wade was overturned and Illinois became a destination for abortion care, Illinois providers and advocates have rebuilt the state's infrastructure to support the tens of thousands of people who travel to the state for abortion services every year.
June is National Aphasia Awareness Month, raising awareness of a disorder that affects a person's ability to speak, write, and understand both spoken and written language.
Illinois American Water and Aqua Illinois are both seeking rate increases that would raise monthly bills by as much as $28, while their parent companies seek regulatory approval to merge — a deal a consumer watchdog says would give one company control of nearly all regulated water customers in the state.
The Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general from several states secured a right-to-repair settlement Wednesday with agriculture equipment giant Deere & Co. — commonly known as John Deere — that requires the company to let farmers and independent shops fix their own equipment.
Chicago Soul Café opened Monday at 6248 S. St. Lawrence Ave.
The Chicago Bears this weekend said they are assessing land at Wolf Lake Terminals in Hammond, Indiana, for a possible new stadium.
As an alternative to legalizing video gambling terminals citywide, Bally's offered to open slot machine lounges at O'Hare and Midway, saying the move would replace the $6.8 million the city budgeted from VGTs.
The 46th Taste of Chicago is cashless for the first time, accepting only credit cards, with a drone and fireworks show scheduled for approximately 9:15 p.m. Friday near Buckingham Fountain.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra's summer home in Highland Park reopened after a $70 million gut renovation that redesigned the stage to reduce sound levels harmful to musicians.
Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh pop star best known for singing the chart-topping power ballad "Total Eclipse of the Heart" in 1983, has died. She was 75.
The nominations for the 78th annual Primetime Emmy Awards were announced Wednesday morning in Los Angeles, with the final season of HBO Max's "Hacks" setting a new record for the most nominations in a single year for a comedy series.
Nikki Glaser, Michelle Wolf, Ali Siddiq and Bert Kreischer are among the comedians coming to the city to perform from Nov. 5 to Nov. 15.
As the Geneva-based author writes in his new book, "Shadows of Sobriety," those painful memories are the shadows that still exist for him today.
Chief Meteorologist Albert Ramon has the latest in First Alert Weather.
The Department of Homeland Security said officers were looking for someone else when they shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado.
From the Taste of Chicago to the Windy City Smokeout, there is something for everyone happening through Sunday.
Authorities say the chase began with a report of a stolen plate at a casino in New Buffalo. The suspect, later identified as 54-year-old Kevin W. Meyers of LaPorte, Indiana, left the state and Indiana State Police pursued the vehicle. They said during the pursuit, the suspect fired multiple shots from a rifle and also pointed the gun at pursuing officers.
An Indiana State Police trooper was shot multiple times after a pursuit in Michigan City Friday morning, and the suspect was later found dead in a wooded area nearby, state police said.
While Keith Burton survived his father's alcohol addiction and violence, he would later watch addiction nearly destroy his son.
It's summer and that means there's plenty to do, especially if you want to get outside this weekend.
It was originally meant to last until October 24 to help with capacity and potential delays.
The two-year project is helping neighbors in their time of need.
The university released what it's called a strategy statement about the impact it's already seeing artificial intelligence make on higher education and the legal profession.
New Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke is fighting innocence claims more often than her predecessor, Kim Foxx, and hiring outside counsel to help.
On Tuesday evening, CBS News Chicago reported on wild weeds taking over a property in the South Side's Washington Heights neighborhood, and neighbors who said they spent months trying to get help.
Kevin Jackson was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent 22 years in prison before he was freed. Now he has realized his dream by starting a landscaping business. But his quest to be declared innocent continues.
The weeds keep growing, and the complaints keep piling up, but neighbors on one street in the Washington Heights community on Chicago's South Side say nothing is changing.
It was Chicago's ninth shutout loss of the season, tied with the Giants for the second-most in the majors. The Padres have 10.
Former White Sox Aaron Civale (5-7) took the loss for the Athletics after surrendering four runs on six hits in 2 1/3 innings.
Conversations about how Caitlin Clark is treated on a basketball court can be polarizing as fans, players, coaches, pundits and even the U.S. Congress has an opinion about what should or shouldn't happen in regards to the WNBA All-Star.
Caleb Durbin hit a two-run homer to help the surging Boston Red Sox top the Chicago White Sox 2-1 for their sixth consecutive victory.
Jeremiah Jackson hit a two-run double in the bottom of the eighth inning to lift the Baltimore Orioles to a 3-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Thursday.
The Chicago Transit Authority this week released new crime statistics indicating that violent crime is down on the transit system.
An 18-year-old man was facing charges Thursday after police said he fired a gun into a home in the south Chicago suburb of Oak Forest.
Thieves left empty-handed in an attempted crash-and-grab burglary in Chicago's Budlong Woods neighborhood early Thursday, police said.
A 16-year-old boy was charged this week in a mass shooting that left three people dead in Chicago's West Chatham community in 2024.
The men accused in a crime spree that involved an attack on a CBS News Chicago crew last week were back in court Wednesday morning.
