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.
Till would have turned 85 years old on Saturday.
After the parade, the community resource fair provided an opportunity for job seekers.
Initial reports say the crash involved two boats and at least one of them may have flipped over.
The ages of the victims range from 5 to 46, according to Chicago police.
The unknown woman pulled out a sharp object and stabbed the victim in the arm before fleeing the scene, Chicago police said.
President Trump cracked jokes at the redo of the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Friday night, after an armed assailant upended April's dinner.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has purchased commercial spyware that can covertly take control of phones, collect messages, photos and location information.
A new lawsuit argues that Wisconsin's elections commission is wrongly blocking absentee voters from canceling their ballots and requesting new ones, with nearly 91,000 ballots already returned ahead of the Aug. 11 primary.
The Illinois Legislative Ethics Commission voted on Thursday to publish a report outlining details of the investigation that led to state Rep. Harry Benton (D-Chicago) to resign his post earlier this month.
Voters in Chicago will have a chance to decide in November if the city should go after the federal government for money spent dealing with the Trump Administration's immigration crackdown and Operation Midway Blitz.
The Trump administration is taking aim at power grid operator PJM Interconnection over rising electricity bills that affect Illinois and Indiana residents.
Chicago remained the most bed bug-treated city in the country, according to Orkin's latest annual rankings covering a full year of residential and commercial treatment data.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul this week warned residents cleaning up from last month's storms to be on the lookout for scams.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday signed several new consumer protections into law, including a ban on junk fees.
CBS News Chicago has learned that Illinois home insurance premiums are not only higher than the nation's average, but going up faster too.
East Chicago, Indiana is being placed on a precautionary boil water advisory starting Monday morning for planned installations that could affect water safety.
A new Northwestern Medicine study on long COVID shows women show more neurological symptoms than men.
A lettuce supplier to fast-food giant Taco Bell has been linked to a nationwide cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened thousands of people, the CDC said.
Chicago just barely made the top 20 in the American College of Sports Medicine's 2026 ranking of the country's fittest cities.
In a major turnaround in the opioid crisis, overdose deaths are falling across Chicago and Cook County.
The food deserts on Chicago's South and West sides could spread even wider if seven Save A Lot grocery stores close.
Illinois American Water and Aqua Illinois are both seeking rate increases that would raise monthly bills by as much as $28, while their parent companies seek regulatory approval to merge — a deal a consumer watchdog says would give one company control of nearly all regulated water customers in the state.
The Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general from several states secured a right-to-repair settlement Wednesday with agriculture equipment giant Deere & Co. — commonly known as John Deere — that requires the company to let farmers and independent shops fix their own equipment.
Chicago Soul Café opened Monday at 6248 S. St. Lawrence Ave.
The Chicago Bears this weekend said they are assessing land at Wolf Lake Terminals in Hammond, Indiana, for a possible new stadium.
Paramount Skydance on Friday said it would delay the deal until as late as June 2027.
Iowa announced a fall exhibition game against Kansas at the Field of Dreams ballpark, where major and minor league games have been played since 2021.
Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" is the first film shot entirely on 70mm IMAX cameras, and Cinemark Seven Bridges in Woodridge is 1 of roughly 30 theaters nationwide equipped to show it that way.
Brenda Fricker won an Academy Award for 1989's "My Left Foot," played the Pigeon Lady in "Home Alone 2" and appeared in "A Time to Kill" and "So I Married an Axe Murderer."
The actor's agent said he was providing more information following news reports "which contain inaccuracies and outright falsehoods."
Village officials are recommending residents boil all water for a minimum of five minutes before consuming. Officials said the water is safe to use to shower and wash hands.
The free event also featured skateboarding lessons, food trucks, and hula-hooping for all ages.
Chicago police said a 37-year-old man was sitting inside his vehicle when an unknown man approached, pulled out a gun and fired gunshots toward the victim.
Meteorologist Kylee Miller is tracking the latest in First Alert Weather.
CPD said a black sports-utility vehicle pulled up into a parking lot and someone inside fired shots at a large group in the 1000 block of West 14th Street.
A 5-year-old boy and a man were injured during a drive-by shooting on Chicago's Near West Side overnight.
Initial reports say the crash involved two boats and at least one of them may have flipped over.
Till would have turned 85 years old on Saturday.
After the parade, the community resource fair provided an opportunity for job seekers.
Authorities are investigating the "suspicious deaths" of two adults and six children following a house fire Friday morning in Grand Haven Township, Michigan.
While Mayor Brandon Johnson hasn't announced if he will run for re-election next year, he's boasting about lower vacancy rates for Mag Mile buildings and taking credit for the positive changes.
A Lockport foster parent said he lost his kids, job and home for months after a mix-up that landed his name on the Illinois Sex Offender Registry.
Record heat and major air quality issues created by wildfire smoke were key topics as some of the top climate leaders from around the world gathered in Chicago this week for the Aspen Institute's annual climate summit.
Police say a man and a woman were last seen speaking with the victim before the shooting.
Neighbors in the Avalon Park neighborhood said their community has been plagued by squatters, weeds, rats, and water leaks – all thanks to an abandoned home that's been sitting vacant for years.
Christian Walker hit a three-run double, Cam Smith added a two-run homer in Houston's eight-run sixth inning and the Astros overcame a five-run deficit to beat the Chicago White Sox 8-5 on Friday night.
WNBA All-Star weekend festivities continue. Chicago is the center of the women's basketball universe and fan interest has grown for this event.
The Chicago Cubs held on for a 3-2 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday at PNC Park in Pittsburgh.
Kane said he feels strong three years after undergoing a major hip resurfacing surgery and rehabbing his way back for three solid seasons with the Detroit Red Wings.
The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office said Romo was pulled over around 6 p.m. on Thursday.
Madison, Wisconsin remains one of the only cities of its size without a police body camera program, leaving key moments of a fatal officer-involved shooting unrecorded.
A man was killed and a teenage boy was wounded in a shooting on Thursday evening in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago.
A man and a woman were found shot and killed inside a car on Thursday evening on the University of Chicago campus in the Hyde Park neighborhood.
Madison's chief of police says an officer in Wisconsin's capital city shot and killed a man who had injured him with a knife while resisting arrest.
Three men have been convicted of a string of violent robberies targeting liquor stores, convenience stores, and bars in Chicago in 2023 and 2024.
