Volunteers Collecting Goods For "Really, Really Free Market" In Plainfield
Volunteers in Plainfield are getting ready for what amounts to a huge garage sale, but WBBM's Regine Schlesinger reports it's one where everything is free for the taking.
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Volunteers in Plainfield are getting ready for what amounts to a huge garage sale, but WBBM's Regine Schlesinger reports it's one where everything is free for the taking.
More bad weather on Wednesday could hamper recovery efforts in Coal City, which was hit by an EF-3 tornado Monday night. It was the most powerful tornado to hit the Chicago metropolitan area in nearly 25 years.
David Sroge is a repeat felon. His arrests include thefts and deception in both Illinois and Indiana, where, in 2012, he allegedly took nearly $9,000 from a senior citizen for work he did not do. CBS 2's Dave Savini reports.
Just after midnight, a motorcycle traveling at a high rate of speed collided with a pedestrian near the intersection of Route 59 and Lockport Street in Plainfield.
Dramon Ratcliff of Bolingbrook was playing basketball at Plainfield Central High School when he collapsed, the Will County Coroner's Office said.
Annette Eichorst, 50, of Plainfield, if facing multiple theft charges surrounding missing funds from Troop 19's bank account.
A 20-year-old woman was found dead at a motel in west suburban Aurora Saturday night.
Now, authorities are going after a land owner and looking into why action wasn't taken sooner. CBS 2's Dave Savini reports.
A girl was rescued after she fell into a retention basin hole during gym glass at Ira Middle School.
Brian Cooper of Plainfield was convicted in May of killing 21-year-old Alisha Bromfield, when the two were at a Nasewaupee resort for his sister's wedding. He was not the father of Bromfield's baby but his attorney said the two had once had a romantic relationship. He was also Bromfield's boss.
A Plainfield teen died after being hit by a car while walking along I-55 Sunday morning.
Tens of thousands of homes and businesses in the Chicago area were still without power Wednesday morning, more than a day after two severe storms pummeled the region.
A Plainfield trustee was blowing the whistle on a railroad practice in his village that he believes is unsafe.
A Plainfield mother has taken up the fight to change what she sees as a loophole in the state's child sex abuse laws, after her daughter's experience with the justice system in Will County.
A third grader at a Plainfield elementary school has to serve detention tomorrow - but her father has offered to receive the punishment instead.
Ravina Thakkar says her cystic fibrosis gives her a lot of time to think of stories, as she waits through treatments to clear her lungs three times a day.
A Plainfield family thought there would be no Christmas decorations on the house this year with dad serving overseas, but a suburban Christmas store heard about his deployment and stepped in.
The Midwest Brewers Fest in Plainfield this Saturday will be the first event at which, under a recent change in Illinois law, homebrewers will be allowed to offer samples of their beers.
CBS 2'S Brad Edwards went inside a shelter in the southwest suburbs that's given one resident peace of mind for a lifetime.
"It's been an emotional, exhausting journey," Jennifer Wood said.
The funeral service was held this morning in Palos Hills for Kevin Sanders, the former south suburban firefighter who was among 15 people killed two weeks ago in a fertilizer plant explosion in Texas.
At the Plainfield Dire District, three flags fluttered at half staff, one with a lone star for the one lost there from here.
Earlier this week it was confirmed that Kevin Sanders, a 33-year-old paramedic and firefighter, was among the dead. The blast in West, Texas last week injured hundreds.
The former southwest suburban teacher who became embroiled in a sex scandal with a male student said she wished "with all of my heart" that she could "take it back."
The driver of a car that became disabled in traffic on the Stevenson Expressway early Wednesday near southwest suburban Plainfield was killed when a semi plowed into his car and another car that stopped to help.
