2 Investigators: Fake Power Company Extorts Business
A Chicago restaurant received an alarming demand: Pay $1,300 immediately or have the power shut off. CBS 2's Pam Zekman reports.
Watch CBS News
A Chicago restaurant received an alarming demand: Pay $1,300 immediately or have the power shut off. CBS 2's Pam Zekman reports.
Do Illinois patients have too many hoops to jump through? CBS 2's Pam Zekman reports.
It's called "girdling" when a tree dangerously outgrows the iron grate that is meant to protect it. 2 Investigator Pam Zekman reports.
It hardly seems fair, but as 2 Investigator Pam Zekman reports, this is happening to a startling number of people.
2 Investigator Pam Zekman looks at the criminal histories of Darwin and Derren Sorrells, who have been charged in Aldridge's death.
The owner abruptly closed her business three weeks ago, but not before customers pre-purchased treatments. CBS 2's Pam Zekman reports.
Saturday, hundreds of residents of the West Calumet Housing Complex showed up to a meeting to find out what happens next.
The trees and bushes kept on growing. Shirley Hardy then called CBS 2's Pam Zekman.
A new training tower for firefighters, paid for with $1 million in taxpayer money, is riddled with problems, CBS 2 Investigator Pam Zekman found.
A taxpayer-owned fitness center is not the place you'd expect to find a risqué pool party, complete with an advertised cash bar and exotic dancing. CBS 2's Pam Zekman reports.
Eileen Scramuzzo lost a total of $3,200. CBS 2's Pam Zekman reports.
An attorney says the south suburb's city council did not have the required quorum present when a tax hike was supposedly approved. CBS 2's Pam Zekman reports.
Nearly 3,300 parking tickets have been dismissed in the city over the past two years because they were incorrectly issued.
The number of victims keeps increasing, despite raids and arrests by a Jamaican organized crime task force. CBS 2's Pam Zekman reports.
The family of Eugene McSwain has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit, seeking answers. CBS 2's Pam Zekman reports.
CBS 2's Pam Zekman has this follow-up to a 2 Investigators, Better Government Association report.
A CBS 2 investigation last week revealed a family had high lead levels in their water and the city didn't tell them about it for months.
What's driving the frightening rise in interstate shootings? CBS 2's Pam Zekman reports.
Is there lead in your our drinking water? There's good reason for concern.
Pam Zekman reports when a crowdfunding site is involved, it's a classic case of buyer beware.
You know where this is going: There was no grant. CBS 2's Pam Zekman reports.
The 2 Investigators reveal it's almost impossible to stop these modern-day cyber-pirates.
Troy Paraday of Calumet City School District 155 makes a base salary of $315,814 -- but that's not all. CBS 2's Pam Zekman looks at the numbers.
Did Cook County police strong-arm a Chicago mother to buy guns on the street before they'd release her daughter in a drug case? CBS 2's Pam Zekman reports.
People taken by concert ticket counterfeiters are unwittingly financing organized crime operations. CBS 2's Pam Zekman reports.
This past weekend, a minority owner of the Chicago White Sox released a proposal to build a new stadium in the South Loop. On Tuesday, some people from both the Bridgeport and South Loop communities spoke out against the plan.
One person was injured when a minivan crashed into a medical facility on Tuesday morning in north suburban Glenview.
Chicago police have opened a homicide investigation after determining a man was pushed onto the tracks on the CTA Red Line before he was hit by a train on Monday afternoon in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood.
President Trump does not have the power to pardon Lindsay Clancy, because she isn't charged with any federal crimes.
A new report from the University of Illinois Chicago said federal immigration enforcement led to $1.26 billion in unspent money at retail establishments and restaurants in Cook County.
Brooks is seeking to stand out with a platform centering on revitalizing city neighborhoods and new means of promoting public safety.
Turning Point Action is expanding its Iowa presence county by county, with leaders saying high voter participation in the caucuses is the organization's key measure of success.
In less than two weeks, the high-energy laser weapon system has taken down 11 drones, coinciding with a 75% drop in drones probing the border, military officials told CBS News.
The Chicago City Council is set to consider an ordinance that could establish bird-friendly requirements for new construction and major renovations.
Johnson says he is addressing his future and the future of Chicago on Sunday, Sept. 13.
Drivers in Chicago and beyond were paying the highest gas prices ever recorded for the Labor Day holiday as millions of Americans were making their way home on Monday.
Around 115 million domestic and international tourists visited Illinois last year, pushing visitor spending past $50 billion for the first time and generating more than $88 billion in total economic impact.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul filed a lawsuit Thursday against ABC Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electric Inc., alleging deceptive business practices.
Cook County homeowners are again facing a sharper increase in property taxes this year than businesses, the Office of Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas announced Monday.
Contracted linemen from out of state sat idle in a Griffith church parking lot for hours without work orders from NIPSCO, as residents in Northwest Indiana approach two weeks without power.
Cardinal Blase Cupich and a group of Catholic nuns have joined a federal lawsuit challenging Illinois' Medical Aid in Dying law, which is set to take effect in just over a week.
Flies have been everywhere this summer in the Chicago area, and some of them bite. But why is this happening?
Prime Healthcare is drawing criticism after announcing it will stop obstetrics services at three Chicago-area hospitals.
The Chicago Department of Public Health on Tuesday announced two human cases and one death from the West Nile virus in the city this year, and one of those two people has died.
The Jackson Chance Foundation supports the lives of families with babies in the NICU by removing the financial burden of finding parking near hospitals.
This past weekend, a minority owner of the Chicago White Sox released a proposal to build a new stadium in the South Loop. On Tuesday, some people from both the Bridgeport and South Loop communities spoke out against the plan.
A new report from the University of Illinois Chicago said federal immigration enforcement led to $1.26 billion in unspent money at retail establishments and restaurants in Cook County.
Around 115 million domestic and international tourists visited Illinois last year, pushing visitor spending past $50 billion for the first time and generating more than $88 billion in total economic impact.
A new Whole Foods Market is coming to Chicago's Old Town neighborhood.
More than 100 Black-owned businesses were showcased at Soldier Field Sunday for Black on the Block.
The stage was set and the air was humid as rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, took the stage for the first of two Chicago concerts at Soldier Field Thursday night.
James Fulton Engstrom, now a healthy teenager, was born without a pulse in 2010 — and his survival is the miracle the Catholic Church credited to Fulton Sheen's intercession, clearing the way for beatification.
The Met's decision to highlight the work by designer John Galliano sparked widespread controversy due to his history of antisemitic and racist comments.
The Edgewater Music Festival was under way this weekend on Chicago's north lakefront.
People around the world, including Chicago, continued to gather Wednesday to pay tribute to the late Dolly Parton.
The faith leaders prayed for the 3,000 victims and shared what they remember from that day.
This past weekend, a minority owner of the Chicago White Sox released a proposal to build a new stadium in the South Loop. On Tuesday, some people from both the Bridgeport and South Loop communities spoke out against the plan.
Corie Walsh, 40, was set to appear in Will County Court in Joliet on charges of three counts of first-degree murder. Darius Johnson reports.
Investigators say the five people killed when an Amazon cargo jet ran off the runway in Miami were in a van used by plane cleaning crews.
Lindsay Clancy’s attorney is asking President Trump to pardon his client, after her murder trial ended in a mistrial. A jury could not reach a unanimous decision about whether Clancy was criminally responsible for killing her three children in January 2023.
Corie Walsh faces three charges of first-degree murder in the death of her son Barrett. She hired one of the attorneys who defended Casey Anthony in her own murder trial.
Police are searching for a woman after a car that lost control and ended up in the Little Calumet River.
This past weekend, a minority owner of the Chicago White Sox released a proposal to build a new stadium in the South Loop. On Tuesday, some people from both the Bridgeport and South Loop communities spoke out against the plan.
One person was injured when a minivan crashed into a medical facility on Tuesday morning in north suburban Glenview.
Kenneth Williams Sr., 67, was working when he was shot and killed by nine officers in downtown Gary on Friday, Aug. 28.
Several lawsuits are challenging Illinois' medical aid in dying law that is set to take effect on Sept. 12, including one in federal court arguing the law discriminates against people with disabilities.
Back in 2023, ISP got a $10 million grant from the Illinois Secretary of State's Illinois Vehicle Hijacking and Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention and Insurance Verification Council.
Two years before dozens of decomposing bodies were found inside the South Chicago Chapel funeral home, police in nearby Evergreen Park found two bodies in the owners' minivan outside their home.
Hundreds of people are suing the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, where they say they were sexually abused by staff. For the first time, survivors detailed their experience exclusively to CBS News Chicago.
Why has the family that runs South Chicago Chapel, where 56 decomposing bodies were found this month, never faced criminal charges, despite a history of mishandling human remains?
This past weekend, a minority owner of the Chicago White Sox released a proposal to build a new stadium in the South Loop. On Tuesday, some people from both the Bridgeport and South Loop communities spoke out against the plan.
The Cubs fell eight games back of the MLB-leading Brewers in the NL Central after losing the opener of this three-game series.
And to think, Kyle Whittingham said he wanted to put an end to all the drama around Michigan.
Suhey scored the first touchdown in Super Bowl XX against the Patriots in 1986.
Sam Antonacci added three doubles and two RBIs for the White Sox, who maintained their 2 1/2-game lead in the AL Central over Cleveland.
A Frankfort, Illinois, mother accused of killing her 2-year-old son last week was ordered detained in custody at her first court appearance Tuesday morning.
A woman was set to appear in court Monday in a shooting that left a man dead in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood last week.
A 17-year-old boy was hospitalized early Monday after being shot in Chicago's Chatham community.
A man was killed in a shooting Sunday night on the western edge of Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood.
Three people were shot and wounded in Chicago's West Garfield Park neighborhood Sunday morning.
