Bally's Casino pauses work amid allegations of vendor mob connections
A bombshell investigation is throwing the future of the Bally's Casino site in River West into question.
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A bombshell investigation is throwing the future of the Bally's Casino site in River West into question.
The Mob Museum – officially known as the National Museum of Organized Crime & Law Enforcement – is offering details for visitors.
Allen Dorfman, an insurance salesman with close ties to the Chicago mob, was gunned down outside the old Purple Hyatt Hotel in Lincolnwood in broad daylight on Jan. 20, 1983.
Sentencing for a reputed member of the Cicero Street Crew has been delayed until February. U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman told Paul Carparelli and his lawyers she wanted more time to review what she called a 2-foot-high stack of filings made by both the government and Carparelli's supporters.
Five people are facing Super Class X Felony charges following a nearly year-long racketeering investigation into the alleged misdeeds of a West Side organized crime street crew, reports WBBM's Mike Krauser.
The alleged Chicago boss of an international credit card fraud racket has ties to organized crime in Bulgaria, kidnapped a man in Chicago and robbed him of $800,000, ordered a beating and warned a rival would be "cut into pieces," feds say.
The SEIU wants Lisa Madigan to investigate potential mob ties to United Maintenance.
Mob Wives Chicago, what does it do for Chicago's image? Let's find out...
Organized crime wears a new face in Chicago -- and the retiring special-agent-in-charge of the area's FBI office says many times, it speaks a foreign language.
An 87-year-old organized crime figure will be sentenced this morning for his conviction in the bombing of a video poker company.
The Chicago Crime Commission on Wednesday said that legislation to allow for a massive expansion of gambling in Illinois is "deeply flawed" and would be bad for the state.
The Chicago Crime Commission is warning Gov. Pat Quinn that if he signs the gambling expansion legislation now on his desk, organized crime will be involved.
A disgraced Berwyn police officer says he was the key to a robbery gang. The details came out during testimony in the racketeering trial of a former alleged mob boss.
Michael "The Large Guy" Sarno is accused of ordering co-defendants to set off a bomb that wrecked the offices of a gaming company in Berwyn.
Security experts said the anchored-down cylinders planned for outside Wrigley Field are used at public event spaces across the country to prevent vehicular attacks.
Former Evergreen Park Mayor Jim Sexton caught the virus in 2012, and had severe symptoms.
A possible preseason top 10 ranking is building even more buzz for an Illinois football team coming off a Citrus Bowl victory and a rare 10-win season.
Donato was eligible for unrestricted free agency before agreeing to his new deal with his fifth NHL team.
Zishan Alvi, 46, of Inverness, Illinois, pleaded guilty last fall to one count of wire fraud in the COVID-19 testing scheme.
President Trump has approved an attack plan on Iran, but has held off in case Tehran agrees to abandon its nuclear program, an intelligence source and a defense official told CBS News.
The head of the U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement Chicago field office sat down with CBS News Chicago to defend his agency's deportation mission in the city.
Sen. Ted Cruz sparred with media personality Tucker Carlson, highlighting a rift among President Trump's allies over whether to join Israel's campaign against Iran.
A part of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline dedicated to LGBTQ+ youth — known as 988 option 3 — will close in July, the agency said.
This comes one day after Reps. Jonathan Jackson and Raja Krishnamoorthi were also turned away from an immigration facility in Chicago's South Loop.
The company said Tuesday that 85% of its retail products and "nearly all" of its school offerings are already made without "certified colors."
In March, Mark Aiello bet big on basketball, and thought he won $389,000 by correctly guessing rebounds and assists by certain Chicago Bulls players.
Salah Abukhaled says Google's grip on advertising is costing him millions, and the U.S. government shares his same frustrations.
Melissa Kingsbury said she received more than 25 calls and 30 text messages in the first hour after her page was hacked, asking if she was really selling items like low-priced cars in great condition.
Michael Flores has been through a tangle with asbestos, and he ran into a loophole in state policy that could leave anyone vulnerable.
Former Evergreen Park Mayor Jim Sexton caught the virus in 2012, and had severe symptoms.
Recreational cyclist Phil Fox crossed back into America around 3:30 a.m. Sunday, after spending nearly three days circumnavigating over 1,000 miles around Lake Huron by bicycle.
The resignation follows an order by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to change the agency's guidance.
The norovirus strain GII.17 may have disrupted the seasonal pattern of outbreaks.
Warming temperatures due to climate change also help the arachnid survive.
The company said Tuesday that 85% of its retail products and "nearly all" of its school offerings are already made without "certified colors."
Gary, Indiana Mayor Eddie Melton has said Nippon Steel plans to pump $1 billion into the U.S. Steel Gary Works.
Salah Abukhaled says Google's grip on advertising is costing him millions, and the U.S. government shares his same frustrations.
White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf has reached a deal with billionaire Justin Ishbia to potentially transfer ownership starting in 2029.
For 64 of the 82 years Kaage's Newsstand has been around, Mike Kaage has been the man propped up in front from 4 a.m. to 9 a.m. each day. Now, he says it's time to call it a day.
Anne Burrell, an acclaimed chef from upstate New York, hosted "Secrets of a Restaurant Chef," "Worst Cooks in America" and other popular Food Network shows.
Prison staff gave R. Kelly "an amount of medicine that could have killed him," his lawyer alleged in a federal court filing.
Dr. Salvador Plasencia, charged with giving Matthew Perry ketamine in the month leading up to the "Friends" star's overdose death, will plead guilty, according to an agreement.
The judge in the Sean "Diddy" Combs sex trafficking and racketeering trial in NYC dismissed one of the jurors Monday.
Harvey Weinstein's retrial in New York took another dramatic turn when the judge declared a mistrial on the last undecided charge.
Chief Meteorologist Albert Ramon has your 10 p.m. First Alert Weather forecast for Wednesday, June 18, 2025.
Security experts said the anchored-down cylinders planned for outside Wrigley Field are used at public event spaces across the country to prevent vehicular attacks. Marissa Sulek reports.
Former Evergreen Park Mayor Jim Sexton caught the virus in 2012, and had severe symptoms. Jermont Terry reports.
The vigil honored the memory of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, who were shot assassinated this past weekend.
Charlie De Mar reports on how close the U.S. could be to joining in its air fight and going to war with Iran.
President Trump has held off in case Tehran agrees to abandon its nuclear program, an intelligence source and a defense official told CBS News.
Former Evergreen Park Mayor Jim Sexton caught the virus in 2012, and had severe symptoms.
Security experts said the anchored-down cylinders planned for outside Wrigley Field are used at public event spaces across the country to prevent vehicular attacks.
After a break in the early evening, pouring rain began falling on downtown Chicago nonstop again on Wednesday night.
The head of the U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement Chicago field office sat down with CBS News Chicago to defend his agency's deportation mission in the city.
Administrators at Chicago's Weiss Memorial Hospital spoke for the first time Wednesday after busted air conditioners forced patients to be transferred for their own safety.
"We're going to see more heat and more humidity, particularly in the Chicagoland area," said Dr. Sheethal Rao, an internal medicine doctor at UI Health.
"As soon as the rule was released, the EPA employees started talking about how terrible this was going to be for the state of Illinois," said Nicole Cantello, president of AFGE Local 704, the union representing EPA workers in the Chicago area.
Gary, Indiana Mayor Eddie Melton has said Nippon Steel plans to pump $1 billion into the U.S. Steel Gary Works.
Despite continuing reports of taxpayers receiving bills from the IRS for taxes they already paid on time, the agency has remained quiet about the problem and when it could be resolved.
A possible preseason top 10 ranking is building even more buzz for an Illinois football team coming off a Citrus Bowl victory and a rare 10-win season.
Donato was eligible for unrestricted free agency before agreeing to his new deal with his fifth NHL team.
St. Louis handed Sox rookie starter Shane Smith (3-4) his worst defeat.
The Cubs upped their division lead to 6 1/2 games over the second-place Brewers, who won the NL Central in each of the past two years.
The Mystics trailed 44-32 at halftime before doubling up the Sky in the third quarter, 24-12, to tie it at 56-all entering the fourth.
One of the robbers can be heard telling them "give me all that s***" before the man and woman toss their cell phones, keys, and her purse on the ground.
One of the victims was stabbed in the chest, while the other suffered a laceration, police said. The victims went on to disarm the attacker and then stabbed him several times, police said.
Prison staff gave R. Kelly "an amount of medicine that could have killed him," his lawyer alleged in a federal court filing.
A 36-year-old man was on the train when another man approached him and a physical fight ensued.
The drug operation spans from Frankfort to Oak Lawn, and includes a storage unit in Alsip where drugs, weapons, and wads of cash were found, according to the feds.
