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It is about to be Friday Night Lights in Evanston, and the Northwestern Wildcats are officially in game week mode as they prepare to open the season against Michigan State.
Northwestern Wildcats football Coach Pat Fitzgerald has his work cut out for him after losing a lot of the players that won the Big Ten West Division.
Coach Pat Fitzgerald and the Northwestern Wildcats will have a lot to be thankful for this week.
"I understand there's 40,000 experts on Twitter that can call plays for me. My email address is #IDontCare, so shoot that out."
Northwestern Wildcats and the Fighting Illini were spotlighted at Chicago's Big 10 College Football Media Day
Fitzgerald is 77-62 in his 11 years leading the Wildcats, who went 7-6 and won the Pinstripe Bowl in 2016.
"We're a damn good football team," Fitzgerald said, envisioning even better in 2016.
Riley Lees from Libertyville, Ill., and Bennett Skowronek of Fort Wayne, Ind., headline the Wildcats' 2016 recruiting class.
This look is ... interesting, to say the least.
The Cornhuskers can truly prove themselves Saturday in East Lansing.
Brady Hoke's seat is scalding hot.
The Big Ten is down -- and perhaps out of the College Football Playoff already.
"We're an embarrassment," Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald says.
Michigan State-Oregon is must-watch TV, plus 10 Big Ten thoughts and power rankings.
For all Pat Fitzgerald's flashy words, the Wildcats haven't had much success lately.
Venric Mark cited "personal reasons" for leaving.
At 315 pounds himself, Brandon Sherff has famously cleaned 443 pounds three times.
Northwestern AD Jim Phillips will soon find himself at the forefront of a controversial issue.
Wisconsin has a most favorable 2014 conference schedule.
In a wild scene on campus Friday, Northwestern football players voted whether to unionize.
Northwestern football players cast secret ballots Friday in an on-campus hall adjacent to their home stadium on whether to form the nation's first union for college athletes. Just don't expect results any time soon.
On April 25, Northwestern's scholarship football players will vote on the potential formation of a union, the first of its kind in college athletics.
This is time for the kind of innovation and pioneering of which they speak.
Northwestern players are set to vote April 25 on whether to unionize.
Northwestern football coach Pat Fitzgerald is encouraging his team to vote no on forming a union less than two weeks after the National Labor Relations Board said the players could bargain collectively and called for an election.
A store employee came out from the rear of the store and confronted the robbers, who shot him twice, police said.
Police said the shooter opened fire on officers as soon as they got off an elevator in the building where they were responding to a domestic incident.
"He threatened her a lot with a gun. He threatened her a lot. You know, it's sad, it's sad! I tell her not to be with him but, you know," she said.
The two men who died were 26 and 29 years old.
Following a story we broke Thursday night on CBS 2, Chicago's Arab American community is demanding police end the use of suspicious activity reporting after a groundbreaking study found the reports were being used as tool for racial profiling.
Celebrate the Fourth of July with these fireworks shows around the Chicagoland area.
LaVine averaged 24.4 points and made his second straight All-Star team last year.
Police said at 9:04 p.m., a man was walking north on Springfield Avenue at Monroe Street when he took out a gun and began shooting.
None of the 178 passengers and crewmembers on the train was reported to be injured, Amtrak said.
A store employee came out from the rear of the store and confronted the robbers, who shot him twice, police said.
Police said the shooter opened fire on officers as soon as they got off an elevator in the building where they were responding to a domestic incident.
"He threatened her a lot with a gun. He threatened her a lot. You know, it's sad, it's sad! I tell her not to be with him but, you know," she said.
The two men who died were 26 and 29 years old.
Following a story we broke Thursday night on CBS 2, Chicago's Arab American community is demanding police end the use of suspicious activity reporting after a groundbreaking study found the reports were being used as tool for racial profiling.
Following a story we broke Thursday night on CBS 2, Chicago's Arab American community is demanding police end the use of suspicious activity reporting after a groundbreaking study found the reports were being used as tool for racial profiling.
The report confirms what many have suspected for decades: being suspicious has less to do with what a person is doing, and more to do with what they look like.
Chicago Police have low arrest rates, but higher rates for cleared or closed cases. We dig into what's behind those numbers.
A fireworks show in south suburban Harvey didn't go as planned – it ended with the Dixmoor village treasurer getting thrown in jail.
Cutting through bureaucratic red tape can be frustrating – but red tape is not the reason for one west suburban woman's frustration.
Following a story we broke Thursday night on CBS 2, Chicago's Arab American community is demanding police end the use of suspicious activity reporting after a groundbreaking study found the reports were being used as tool for racial profiling.
The ruling delivers a significant blow to the Biden administration's efforts to fight climate change.
In a 5-4 opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the high court rejected arguments by Republican-led states seeking to force officials to keep the policy.
The president blasted the Supreme Court's decision as "outrageous" and "destabilizing."
"What you have here is absolutely a legal rollercoaster," said CBS 2 Legal Analyst Irv Miller.
Buckle up for a weekend of travel chaos – starting Thursday, mass delays and cancellations are expected just to get worse heading into the holiday weekend.
Rental income was part of a Chicago man's retirement plan, but that hit a snag when his renters lost their jobs during the pandemic.
There's nothing wrong with the medication, but the bottles don't meet standards for child resistance.
Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg was the site of a post-Christmas shopping spree that Cynthia DeSimone still regrets months later – and it wasn't her idea at all.
What if there were a way to get warnings about high water usage before the bill arrived in the mail?
The Indiana Hospital Association said the state will still need about 5,000 more nurses by 2031.
Every state that borders Illinois has or could soon have restrictions on abortion in the wake of the striking down of Roe v. Wade.
The Supreme Court Friday overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which guaranteed a woman's right to abortion. The ruling sends the issue back to the states. CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford reports.
Wisconsin has an 1849 law that bans abortion, except to save the life of the mother, but whether that law is enforceable is expected to be challenged in court.
A Kaiser poll taken earlier this spring found fewer than one in five parents would get their children under 5 vaccinated right away.
The employees said Starbucks has cut their hours and has forced the staff to do more with fewer people.
In a note to employees at Citadel, Griffin announced he already has moved his family to Miami, and will soon be bringing the company with him, though some Citadel employees will remain in Chicago.
The edible fungi was discovered as part of a NASA-funded research mission about life in extreme environments.
The coffee shop wants to support Black, Latinx, and women entrepreneurs get their own start.
The snack company – which accounts for 80% of Kellogg's current sales – will have dual campuses in Battle Creek and Chicago, with its headquarters in Chicago.
The Cubs took advantage of 10 walks by five pitchers and came back after falling behind 4-0.
New Trier High School alum and former Chicago White Sox player Charlie Tilson saw his first shot in the major leagues derailed by injury.
LaVine averaged 24.4 points and made his second straight All-Star team last year.
Patrick Wisdom hit a grand slam and a solo homer en route to a career-high six RBIs, rookie Christopher Morel had a career-high five hits and the Chicago Cubs beat the Cincinnati Reds Thursday night.
Willson Contreras has already been an All-Star twice in his first six seasons – but he's been even better in this lucky number season seven.
Celebrate the Fourth of July with these fireworks shows around the Chicagoland area.
The official debut of the 200-seat space Tuesday evening featured magician Carisa Hendrix – better known by her stage name, Miss Lucy Darling.
For the last three quarters of a century, the Jolly Boys have shared their song throughout Chicagoland.
Hudson produced the new musical "A Strange Loop" which won for Best Musical Sunday night.
The judge said state law caps punitive damages at $350,000, meaning Depp's award would total $10.35 million.
The victims were all rushed to area hospitals.
Following a story we broke Thursday night on CBS 2, Chicago's Arab American community is demanding police end the use of suspicious activity reporting after a groundbreaking study found the reports were being used as tool for racial profiling. CBS 2 Investigator Megan Hickey reports.
The officer was shot in an ambush attack in an elevator, and the suspect has since been apprehended. CBS 2's Tara Molina and Meredith Barack report.
CBS 2’s Suzanne Le Mignot talked exclusively to a mother who called police when her daughter reached out to help. A Chicago Police officer was later shot in an ambush attack.
Nice weather this holiday weekend means Chicago's lakefront will be packed.
The best looks from the 62nd annual GRAMMY Awards on CBS.
Red carpet looks from the 61st annual GRAMMY Awards on CBS.
Check out some of the exceptional nominees for the 2018 GRAMMYs, only on CBS!
