Nearly 19,000 Unclaimed Items Up For Auction By Treasurer's Office
The Illinois State Treasurer's office has some Christmas gift suggestions: unclaimed property that will be auctioned off online later this month.
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The Illinois State Treasurer's office has some Christmas gift suggestions: unclaimed property that will be auctioned off online later this month.
The Illinois State Bar Association is raising money for food banks around the state - aimed at helping hundreds of thousands of people.
Metallic sculptures of two giraffes and a goat have been removed from a street in Lakeview after more than three decades.
The mayor of Sauk Village has abruptly resigned, and tonight trustees are expected to appoint an acting mayor.
The accused in that rape case is a former NIU police officer, Andrew Rifkin. He was charged with sexually assaulting a student last year and then fired by the NIU Police Department.
A missing persons case that is almost six years old is getting a boost. WBBM NewsRadio's Steve Miller reports.
United's Dreamliner landed at O'Hare this morning: the airline's first commercial flight for the 787.
The Bulls are at home, opening their regular season tonight at 7 p.m. against the Sacramento Kings - and business owners near the United Center are glad to see some activity on Madison Street.
Bed bugs at the Cook County Juvenile Courthouse have prompted officials to bring in the exterminators.
The Illinois Secretary of State's office said Wednesday that about 200 corporations - many of them small businesses - have been caught up in a scam that looks official.
Republican Congressman Joe Walsh's son on Tuesday pleaded with his father's Democratic challenger, Tammy Duckworth, to pull campaign ads accusing his father of being a deadbeat dad, calling the ads "hurtful" and "untrue."
Two weeks after a Siberian Husky was reunited with her owner in McHenry County, five years after the dog disappeared, a former Chicago family's 12-year-old Yorkshire Terrier, lost for 2 ½ years, has been found in north suburban Grayslake.
Once, they were teenagers -- convicted of the 1991 rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl in Dixmoor. Now, the "Dixmoor Five" are adults: freed from prison by DNA, and they are suing authorities who investigated the case.
More than 20,000 people who have applied for jobs in Plainfield School District 202 have received offensive emails from someone who hacked into the computer system over the weekend.
Chicago police are looking for the driver of a car who hit an elderly woman on the city's West side and kept going.
A Chicago community gardening group has won a top prize from the Metropolitan Planning Council for its corner garden in Logan Square.
A retired Chicago police officer accidentally shot and killed his son early Tuesday, after mistaking him for a burglar, the officer's family said.
Union workers at the BP plant in Whiting, Ind., said Wednesday that the company has taken away something that's been a beloved tradition for decades: the morning coffee break.
Made In Chicago: Heartland Alliance Refugee Services, in Chicago's Ravenswood neighborhood, provides assistance for foreigners who have relocated in Chicago.
A Southwest Side woman wants others to know what happened to her a week ago.
A few hundred employees of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services rallied in front of the Thompson Center this afternoon, protesting layoffs at the agency.
A nurse's assistant from Arlington Heights is accused of stealing more than $25,000 in jewelry from her patients.
If you heard cheering around the city at about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, it was probably the sound of hundreds of thousands of parents and their kids hailing the end of the teachers' strike.
The defense attorney for the 18-year-old boy from Hillside accused of trying to set off what he thought was a car bomb downtown says the government's case is suspicious.
It's something you might expect to see in Montana - or even in northern Wisconsin, but a black bear in Illinois? A locomotive engineer says he's sure he saw one last Tuesday.
Multiple shootings have occurred across the city following a mass shooting on the South Side that left 13 wounded on Friday night.
Dillon Dingler homered and drove in the tying run in the ninth, Matt Vierling's bloop single finished off Detroit's comeback as the Tigers beat the Chicago White Sox 5-4 in 10 innings on Sunday.
The first direct flight from Chicago to Cairo, Egypt, took off from O'Hare International Airport on Sunday.
A man on a CTA Red Line train was injured by broken glass in a shooting on the Dan Ryan Expressway near 95th Street Sunday morning, according to Illinois State Police.
The Chicago Cubs' game against the Toronto Blue Jays that had been planned for Sunday was postponed due to the rain coming in.
The Altoids were a callback to a viral moment between former first lady Michelle Obama and former President George W. Bush.
A senior Justice Department official called a judge's demand for a declaration on the status of the "anti-weaponization" fund "unnecessary."
Trump has appeared during the Iran war to lose patience with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who may now find himself "stuck."
President Trump and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni traded criticism on Saturday after Italy canceled its envoy's visit to the U.S.
The Justice Department says it's released "every document required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act," but CBS News has identified numerous gaps.
An Illinois law banning "swipe fees" on taxes and tips — already delayed twice by lawmakers — appears to be on life support after a federal judge that once permitted it issued a permanent injunction against it this week.
A new study from the Cook County Treasurer's office underlines growing concerns about the impact the Illinois megaprojects bill could have on the county's property tax base and overall fiscal health.
As thousands of Chicagoans wrap up road trips over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, gas prices in the city have reached the highest levels seen in four years.
Consumer and environmental advocates said Monday that they found overcharges buried in the most recent rate-hike request by Nicor.
One week away from Memorial Day weekend and the unofficial start of the summer travel season, with gas prices remaining high, negotiations were set to resume Monday at the largest oil refinery in the Midwest.
Illinois is among the top 13 states seeing a rise in alpha-gal syndrome cases, with residents living in southern Illinois at the highest risk, according to a 2025 study.
After Bruce Willis was diagnosed with dementia, his wife Emma Heming Willis found a new purpose as a health advocate.
The North Shore suburb of Wilmette this week became the latest Chicago-area municipality to discover mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus this year.
Dr. Peter Stafford was working with a missionary group in the Congo when he came down with the virus last month.
While 330 Ebola infections are confirmed in central Africa and huge challenges remain, hundreds more suspected cases "have been cleared out," the WHO says.
Daley's Restaurant, known as Chicago's oldest, has served Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood for more than 130 years.
Walgreens is set to close in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood on Thursday, and there's growing concern about where families will get their medications.
The owners of Gene & Georgetti steakhouse are suing a concessions operator over their expansion at Midway International Airport.
DraftKings announced Monday that it is closing its sportsbook operation at Wrigley Field after only about two years.
After more than 80 years, there will be no Ann Sather restaurant location in the 900 block of West Belmont Avenue in Chicago's Lakeview community, effective in June.
Claude Guillemot and a flight instructor were flying in a twin-motor Cessna 421 on Friday evening. An investigation into the crash is underway.
James Burrows directed more than 1,000 episodes of television, including every episode of the original "Will & Grace."
In a full circle moment, actor Gary Cole returns to the very same local stage where he began his professional acting career.
Record producer Tay Keith was found dead in his Nashville home by officers performing a welfare check, police said.
Tom Dreesen, a pioneering actor and comedian and Chicago-area native, died Wednesday.
Dozens of family members came out for the service at the Gold Star Family and Memorial Park. The Chicago Police Chaplain's Ministry holds the mass every year, honoring loved ones killed in the line of duty.
Lake County Sheriff’s deputies were called to unincorporated Gurnee around 4:40 a.m. on Saturday for a report of a missing girl. Detectives found 24-year-old Jordy Fuerte Perez with the girl, who is under 14 years old, near Libertyville around later, around 6 p.m.
At 4:29 a.m., the burglars crashed into the Corcle K at 211 W. Adams St. with a black Jeep sport-utility vehicle. Multiple thieves got out and tried to take the ATM, police said
The president took to social media early Sunday morning, saying in part, "Lots of killing going on in Chicago .... Why isn't Governor Pritzker calling me for help. I could make Chicago a safe city..."
Currie was first elected to the state house in 1978. She held her seat for 40 years, becoming the longest serving woman in state history and THE first woman to serve as house majority leader.
A man on a CTA Red Line train was injured by broken glass in a shooting on the Dan Ryan Expressway near 95th Street Sunday morning.
A shooting that sent three people to the hospital after a large gathering on the city's West Side.
A 17-year-old boy was in police custody Sunday morning after a shooting that left another teen dead in the South Austin neighborhood on Chicago's West Side.
Multiple shootings have occurred across the city following a mass shooting on the South Side that left 13 wounded on Friday night.
Dillon Dingler homered and drove in the tying run in the ninth, Matt Vierling's bloop single finished off Detroit's comeback as the Tigers beat the Chicago White Sox 5-4 in 10 innings on Sunday.
Newly released cell phone video of a police shooting in south suburban Country Club Hills appears to contradict what a federal agent claims happened during an undercover gun trafficking sting operation last week.
"A house of horrors." That's how one former Chicago foster child described Aunt Martha's Integrated Care Center, a facility that's been at the center of a years-long CBS News Chicago investigation.
Kindbody entered into an agreement with a cryogenic storage facility in Massachusetts, but not all patients received the email.
A Chicago woman says a life insurance policy she paid into for 25 years was cancelled over a $112 shortfall that she never knew existed, and now, at 82 years old, she's uninsurable.
The Crisis Alternative Response Evanston, or CARE, team responds to calls that, before July 2024, would have been lumped into police calls.
Dillon Dingler homered and drove in the tying run in the ninth, Matt Vierling's bloop single finished off Detroit's comeback as the Tigers beat the Chicago White Sox 5-4 in 10 innings on Sunday.
The Chicago Cubs' game against the Toronto Blue Jays that had been planned for Sunday was postponed due to the rain coming in.
Dallas chipped away and trailed 43-38 at halftime, but the Sky dominated the third quarter and led 71-57 before losing for the 10th time in 11 games.
Chicago's Jacob Webb (1-2) came on with two on in the eighth and gave up consecutive RBI singles to Alejandro Kirk and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to tie the game at 5-all.
Troy Melton allowed one hit in six innings and the Detroit Tigers' offense came alive late in a 4-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox.
A man on a CTA Red Line train was injured by broken glass in a shooting on the Dan Ryan Expressway near 95th Street Sunday morning, according to Illinois State Police.
Would-be burglars crashed their way into a Circle K store in downtown Chicago early Sunday morning.
Detectives from Lake County, Illinois, Sheriff's office rescued a girl under 14 from a grown man who had traveled from Georgia to meet her this weekend, authorities said Sunday.
A man was robbed on a Chicago Transit Authority bus in Chicago's West Englewood community late Saturday night.
A 17-year-old boy was in police custody Sunday morning after a shooting that left another teen dead in the South Austin neighborhood on Chicago's West Side.
