Winter Weather Advisory extended for Chicago area, Illinois
Winter weather slammed the Chicago area early Monday morning, with blizzard warnings in effect for some outlying areas.
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Kris Habermehl is a traffic and breaking news reporter for CBS News Chicago.
Habermehl returned to CBS News Chicago in March, 2022.
Kris is CBS News Chicago's eye in the sky from Skywatch, providing traffic reports during the morning news and following breaking news from the air all day long.
He's a five-time Emmy Award winner, a licensed pilot and a lieutenant and training officer at the Kirkland Fire Depertment. Habermehl has been a pilot since he was a young boy.
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CBS News Chicago's Ed Curran put it, "Kris doesn't just tell you there's a fire; he tells you what's burning by the color of the smoke."
Winter weather slammed the Chicago area early Monday morning, with blizzard warnings in effect for some outlying areas.
A crash left one person dead and three others injured in Marquette Park on Chicago's Southwest Side early Monday.
A truck was left hanging on the edge of an Eisenhower Expressway bridge in Elmhurst, Illinois, causing significant closures on Thursday morning.
A suspect was in custody after firing shots at Chicago police officers before crashing an SUV into two parked cars Monday morning in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood.
Traffic was disrupted early Monday after the cab of a semi-trailer truck caught fire right off the Eisenhower Expressway on Chicago's West Side.
Illinois State Police were investigating reports of a shooting on the Kennedy Expressway near Ogden Avenue on Wednesday afternoon.
Cicero police said they were able to track the fleeing vehicle after deploying a tracking device.
Three people were injured in a car crash Wednesday afternoon on the Tri-State Tollway near north suburban Gurnee.
There are no trains running on Metra's Southwest Service line after an early morning freight train derailment in Chicago Ridge. The damage could take days to repair.
The train struck a cargo box truck at a crossing on a private road for a business just east of Lemont.
Chicago firefighters were responding to a large fire Tuesday afternoon in an apartment building in the Chatham neighborhood.
Busy Touhy Avenue was completely shut down in the north Chicago suburb of Niles early Tuesday, after a sport-utility vehicle hit a pedestrian.
Illinois State Police say a drunk driver caused a multi-vehicle crash that injured an EMT on the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway in Hoffman Estates early Monday morning.
Chicago firefighters responded to a fire on Monday afternoon at the Ford assembly plant in the South Deering neighborhood.
Northwest Indiana could see over six inches of lake-effect snow by Thursday morning, while a snow squall snarled Chicago's Wednesday morning commute.