Man Charged With Painting Racist Graffiti On Pilsen Church
A 60-year-old man has been charged with vandalizing the front doors of a Pilsen church earlier this week.
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A 60-year-old man has been charged with vandalizing the front doors of a Pilsen church earlier this week.
It was the sixth time the church has been targeted. But this time, the church was prepared. WBBM's Steve Miller reports.
Authorities are offering a $5,000 reward to catch the culprits who struck the southwest suburban graveyard.
Two Northwestern University students have been charged with spray-painting racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic graffiti inside a chapel on the school's Evanston campus late Thursday.
An off-duty Chicago police officer fired his gun at two suspects Thursday morning, after he caught a man vandalizing a car in Norwood Park.
An animal-rights activist who helped release 2,000 minks and vandalize an Illinois fur farm has been sentenced to three years in federal prison — but already has been locked up for nearly that long.
A six-foot tall menorah was damaged on Thursday, in an incident that is being investigated by Evanston police as a possible hate crime.
DuPage County Board Member Jim Zay, who chairs the DuPage Water Commission, said it was thought at first that kids were behind the broken construction vehicle windows, doors, and control panels at Armstrong Park, where the Klein Creek Flood Mitigation Project began a year ago.
Someone managed to get inside the massive century-old building, and make their way to the top of the eight-floor hospital, where they must have negotiated narrow ledges to paint "Air City" in huge letters.
Police are investigating the vandalism of a bust of Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, the Haitian-born man who's credited as the founder of Chicago, reports WBBM's Steve Miller.
Chicago police are investigating an incident at a Near North Side 7-11 store during which three men videotaped themselves, vandalizing the place on Thursday morning, reports WBBM's Mike Krauser.
Police responded to several buildings, garages that were spray painted with racial slurs, profanity Sunday in the West Ridge neighborhood on the North Side.
A man was arrested for vandalizing a police memorial horse statue late Saturday night on Michigan Avenue in Streeterville.
Brian Sundstrom, 26, was arrested Thursday as he was heading into the police station to talk with authorities about the incident, WBBM's Mariam Sobh reports.
Residents of southwest suburban New Lenox cannot believe it. CBS 2's Jim Williams reports.
A vandal broke into Soldier Field, scaling the colonnade stairs and setting a fire in an executive suite, just a week before the Bears' first preseason game of the season Friday night.
Three men, accused of causing extensive damage to homes, businesses and numerous vehicles have been charged with criminal damage to property.
A new art installation in Grant Park was damaged - apparently overnight - and today pieces that broke off the artwork are still visible on the ground.
Two young boys have a date in juvenile court after they were accused of vandalizing a south suburban church, reports WBBM's Regine Schlesinger.
A religious display set up at Daley Plaza appears to have been vandalized sometime Tuesday night, according to the organization that displayed it.
n the early morning hours of March 2, a man trudged through the snow in front of the Chinese American Museum in Chinatown and used a hammer to bust out the teeth of the hand carved lions perched outside the museum on 23rd street.
The CTA said its hundreds of security cameras have helped police make 60 vandalism arrests through the first three months of 2014 -- the same number of graffiti arrests as all of last year.
The suspects struck at least 13 of the boxes over a two-day period on the North Side, police said. They usually did their damage in the afternoon or early morning.
Chicago police said a 12-year-old boy was grazed by a bullet while riding in a car in Chicago's Austin neighborhood.
Jasbleidys Hernandez details how life has been for her and her children after her husband was arrested by federal agents last October.
Chicago cut Milwaukee's lead to 90-84 late in the third quarter, but couldn't get any closer.
Gurnee police said the woman hit two people with a car before attacking a third victim in what they call "random acts of violence."
Following a historic win at the Grammys, Bad Bunny will take the stage for the Super Bowl LX halftime show.
Hillary Clinton will appear for a deposition on Feb. 26, while former President Bill Clinton will appear on Feb. 27, according to the House Oversight Committee.
The House on Tuesday voted 217 to 214 to fund major parts of the government and end the partial shutdown.
All federal immigration agents in Minneapolis will begin wearing body cameras, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said Monday, a policy that could be rolled out nationwide.
With U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi giving up his seat in the House to run for the Senate, voters in Illinois' 8th Congressional District face a crowded ballot in the Democratic primary on March 17.
With U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly giving up her seat in the House to run for the Senate, voters in Illinois' 2nd Congressional District face a crowded ballot in the Democratic primary on March 17.
This week marks Identity Theft Awareness Week, and Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza emphasized some safety tips Monday for avoiding and dealing with identity theft.
A controversial data center in Naperville, Illinois, could be the cause to pack a city council meeting there on Tuesday night.
Police in the west Chicago suburb of Geneva are warning of a scam involving spoofed phone numbers.
Protesters on Tuesday were cranking up the heat on Peoples Gas over a recently proposed rate hike that would add an additional $10 to $11 a month to utility bills.
A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital announced this week that it is planning to open a new pediatric hospital in the west Chicago suburb of Downers Grove.
It has been nearly six years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and one of the many questions doctors are still working to answer concerns the long-term effects.
Leaders from Cook County, the Illinois Department of Human Services, and the Greater Chicago Food Depository denounced changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Wednesday.
The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center has received a grant from The Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation for a new cancer center.
Chicago's Lurie Children's Hospital said Tuesday that it is no longer initiating gender-affirming medical treatment for minors.
January may be the coldest time of the year, but Chicago is already looking forward to summer farmers' markets.
A development proposal issued this month calls for the replacement of a building housing a Giordiano's pizzeria in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood with a new mixed-use building with 28 residential units.
United Airlines flight attendants picketed outside Chicago's Willis Tower Thursday morning as they fought for a new contract.
WSCR-AM, 670 The Score, will begin a simulcast on 104.3 FM next month.
Does the Chicago Bears' dramatic improvement this season, culminating in their first playoff run in five years, change the discussion about where they will build a new stadium?
Chuck Negron, a founding member of Three Dog Night whose lead vocals powered a string of hits for one of the top rock acts of the late 1960s and early '70s has died. He was 83.
Bad Bunny used his Grammy acceptance speech on Sunday to denounce U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and call for the end of the ongoing immigration crackdown.
The 2026 Grammy Awards recognized the best of the best in music from last year, with big wins for Kendrick Lamar and Bad Bunny. Here's the full list of winners and nominees.
Complete closure of the performing arts center in Washington, D.C., will start on July 4, Mr. Trump said. It's not yet clear how extensive the changes to the building might be.
Music's biggest night returned Sunday with the 68th annual Grammy Awards. Here is how to watch and stream and what to know.
Chicago police said a 12-year-old boy was grazed by a bullet while riding in a car in Chicago's Austin neighborhood.
Meteorologist Laura Bannon has the extended forecast.
Chief Meteorologist Albert Ramon is tracking warmer temperatures by late week with a February thaw.
Omar Bautista Carvajal was arrested by federal agents on Oct. 4, as he was heading to his weekly Saturday English class in Carol Stream. Now, his family faces uncertainty about when they will see him.
Grace Bentkowski, 22, was struck and killed in late July by a South Shore Line train at the Hegewisch station on July 25, 2024.
Courtney Drysdale was shot and killed while opening up the bar she owned near the Illinois-Indiana state line.
A woman was shot to death in an apparent domestic incident in a UI Health parking garage, UIC Police said Tuesday.
Chicago police said three people were shot, two fatally, at White Castle on the Near West Side Tuesday afternoon.
Starting early Wednesday, United customers won't be able to book flights and access other services as the airline upgrades its reservation system.
Investigators are combing through the house of "Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie's mother, Nancy, in search of clues to the 84-year-old's disappearance.
Cynthia Eason recounted the moment Chicago police officers raided her family's home in 2018.
Water bills could be going up in several Chicago suburbs and other parts of Illinois, as Illinois American Water seeks a rate increase to fund infrastructure improvements.
The case involves a Chicago grandmother, her daughter, and her four grandchildren, who all said that Chicago police officers pointed guns at them during the botched raid.
Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel no longer will have to testify about an alleged "code of silence" at the Chicago Police Department, after a federal judge reversed an earlier ruling that would have allowed him to take the stand in a lawsuit over a botched police raid.
John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, the busiest trauma center in Illinois, is sounding an alarm, as doctors brace for an influx of patients because of federal funding cuts under the Trump administration's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act."
Chicago cut Milwaukee's lead to 90-84 late in the third quarter, but couldn't get any closer.
The Chicago Bulls are sending center Nikola Vučević to the Boston Celtics in exchange for guard Anfernee Simons, and the teams will also swap second-round draft picks as part of the deal.
Davis was the first player in the program's history to win the Illinois Gatorade Player of the Year.
The Detroit Pistons have agreed to acquire Kevin Huerter from the Chicago Bulls in a four-player, three-team deal, according to two people with knowledge of the trade.
The Northwestern Wildcats won't play in their new $862 million football stadium until their third home game of the 2026 season, when they'll host their Big Ten home opener at the new Ryan Field on Oct. 2.
A woman was shot to death in an apparent domestic incident in a UI Health parking garage, UIC Police said Tuesday.
A suspect was taken into custody on Tuesday for the deadly shooting of a bar owner, Courtney Drysdale, in Momence, according to the Kane County Sheriff's Office
The man whom Jill Biden divorced for the eventual 46th President of the United States is now in jail on murder charges.
Investigators are combing through the house of "Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie's mother, Nancy, in search of clues to the 84-year-old's disappearance.
Prosecutors said Sharon Charitine Sackman, 52, gave the counterfeit weight loss drugs to three people in Chicago in 2023.
