Firefighter Hurt In Auto Repair Shop Fire In Kankakee
The fire destroyed a body shop and repair shop in downtown Kankakee. A firefighter was injured by a falling brick.
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The fire destroyed a body shop and repair shop in downtown Kankakee. A firefighter was injured by a falling brick.
Chicago welcomed top police officials from nearly a dozen major cities on Wednesday for a summit on national trends in crime.
Tavon Tanner was on his porch in the 3900 block of West Polk Street with his mother, aunt, and 7-year-old brother when shots were fired around 10:15 p.m. Monday. A bullet struck Tavon in the back.
Police said the man was driving north on Western Avenue in a black SUV, when a dark colored sedan pulled up next to him, and someone inside opened fire.
"We just came from watching Chicago police officers execute Paul O'Neal," attorney Michael Oppenheimer said.
A 54-year-old man was shot during an armed robbery late Wednesday night in Skokie.
Civic leaders hailed the decision to build President Barack Obama's presidential library and museum in historic Jackson Park as a boon for tourism, economic development, and community pride on the South Side.
The fire started around 10:15 p.m., on the 2nd floor at the Fountaincrest Condominiums at California Avenue and Greenwood Road in Dolton.
Police said it happened around 2 a.m. as the driver was picking up two passengers at the 31st Street Harbor.
Investigators have begun examining tiny particles of dust at a northwest Indiana apartment complex contaminated with lead, to determine how widespread the problem is.
Chicago police have seized an average of nearly one gun an hour this year, and the department believes that push could help reduce the city's violent crime rate.
The students are part of the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Foundation's annual World Leadership Congress.
A 6-year-old girl was expected to make a full recovery after she was shot while playing on her grandmother's porch in Englewood.
The crash happened around 4 a.m. in the northbound lanes of Route 53 just south of Euclid Avenue, according to Illinois State Police.
The impact of the murders of three police officers in Baton Rouge on Sunday could be felt in Chicago, where police already were taking steps for extra protection in the wake of the slayings of five police officers in Dallas, but former Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy offered a different perspective on the threat to police.
Police in Chicago and across the country have been on high alert since a sniper killed five officers and wounded nine others in Dallas on July 7, and tensions were heightened 10 days later, when six Baton Rouge officers were shot, three of them fatally on Sunday.
Hours before he was set to attending a private fundraising luncheon in Chicago, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump tweeted about the city's crime issues.
Home surveillance video provided exclusively to CBS 2 shows the victim standing behind his van, when a black Ford Crown Victoria struck him from behind.
The nightclub massacre in Orlando and the sniper murders of five police officers in Dallas have renewed the call to get assault weapons off the streets, and Chicago aldermen plan to discuss what more can be done to achieve that goal.
Their message is: No justice, no revenue. CBS 2's Susanna Song reports.
Will the ambush of Dallas police officers affect activism here in Chicago?
A man and a woman were shot as they sat in their car in west suburban Westchester, in what police said was a targeted hit, but also a case of mistaken identity.
A University Park family was searching for the man who rescued them from a fire overnight, when their home was damaged by a blaze that might have been sparked by fireworks.
A woman was killed on her birthday and four other people were wounded in a shooting in the Washington Heights neighborhood Thursday night.
Rev. Corey Brooks said kids were shooting off firecrackers and fireworks at the time, so when someone opened fire into a crowd gathered in the courtyard of the Parkway Gardens apartments, no one realized right away there had been a shooting.
