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Child Playing With Lighter Starts Fire At Batavia Apartment
BATAVIA, Ill. (STMW) – A child playing with a lighter started a fire that caused $25,000 worth of damage to an apartment building in west suburban Batavia Saturday afternoon. Firefighters found black...
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Hundreds Of Protesters Call For Changes In Immigration Policy
CHICAGO (CBS) – Several hundred people rallied in the Federal Plaza downtown Saturday demanding changes in U.S. immigration policy and an end to deportations that split families. Speakers in English...
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Hydrants, Hoses Aid Some Elgin Residents With Frozen Pipes
ELGIN (CBS) — Imagine not having water for weeks. That’s what more than three dozen homeowners in Elgin are dealing with. CBS 2’s Suzanne Le Mignot reports. A fire hydrant is the main source of water...
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Older Man Asks 22-Year-Old For A Date, Touches Her Inappropriately When She...
MOUNT PROSPECT (CBS) – A man in his fifties asked a woman out for a date and then inappropriately touched her when she turned him down outside a Mail Box Plus store in Mount Prospect, say police, who...
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Person On Tracks Halts Green Line Trains On South Side
(CBS) – Some CTA Green Line trains were halted for more than an hour Saturday night because of a person on the tracks on the South Side. Trains between the Roosevelt and Garfield stops were temporarily...
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Rollover Crash In Edgewater Hospitalizes Two
CHICAGO (STMW) – Two men were hospitalized after a rollover crash in Edgewater early Sunday morning. A call about a rollover crash at Sheridan Road and Hollywood Avenue came in about 3:50 a.m., Fire...
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Prosecutors: Man Stabbed His Mother And Then Took Her Cash
CHICAGO (STMW) – A south suburban man is accused of stabbing his mother repeatedly with a steak knife, then stealing $101 in cash from her, the Sun-Times is reporting. Willie Jackson, 23, is accused of...
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Six People Shot At Party In Austin
CHICAGO (CBS) – Six people were shot overnight at a party on the West Side, reports WBBM’s Steve Miller. Police say a man had been at that party in a home in the 4900 block of West Race in the Austin...
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Man Convicted Of Brown’s Chicken Massacre Awarded $451K For Civil Rights Suit
(CBS) – One of the men convicted of the 1993 Brown’s Chicken massacre has been awarded almost half a million dollars in his civil rights suit against a Cook County jail guard accused of beating him....
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Teen Charged In Murder Of Livery Driver
CHICAGO (STMW) — A South Side teenager has been charged in last month’s slaying of a livery driver blocks away from U.S. Cellular Field. Witnesses allegedly saw Clint Massey, 17, of the 6600 block of...
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Teen Girl Missing From Back Of The Yards Reunited With Family
CHICAGO (STMW) — A teenage girl who went missing Friday from the Back of the Yards neighborhood has been found and reunited with her family. Brianna Pendleton, 14, was last seen Friday in the 5400...
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Domestic Battery Suspect Shot, Killed By Sleepy Hollow Police
SLEEPY HOLLOW, Ill. (STMW) – Two northwest suburban police officers fatally shot a suspect in a domestic battery Sunday after he slashed at them with a knife. Officers were called at 11:52 a.m. to a...
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Officer Home From Hospital After Being Shot During Drug Raid
CHICAGO (CBS) – A Chicago police officer has been released from the hospital, after he was shot during a drug raid on the Southeast Side. Police said a narcotics team was executing a search warrant at...
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Auto Repair Shop Gutted By Extra-Alarm Fire
Updated 03/10/14 – 10:31 a.m. CHICAGO (CBS) – Auto repair shop in the Irving Park neighborhood was destroyed when an extra-alarm fire sent flames shooting through the roof early Monday. The fire...
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Suspect Charged In 2013 Shooting That Critically Wounded Man
CHICAGO (STMW) – A man has been charged in connection with a shooting that left another man critically injured last year on the West Side. Jamel Crowder, 20, faces felony counts of attempted murder and...
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New Owner Could Revive Tip Top Tap At Allerton Hotel
CHICAGO (CBS) – A historic, but long-shuttered tavern atop a landmark Magnificent Mile hotel could be making a comeback. WBBM Newsradio’s John Waelti reports, more than just great alliteration, the Tip...
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Semi Rolls Over, Blocks Traffic On NB Tri-State
(STMW) – A semi-trailer truck rolled over on the northbound Tri-State Tollway, spilling its load of plastic beads, and snarling the morning commute early Monday. The truck jackknifed and rolled onto...
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Brown’s Chicken Killer Unlikely To Get Most Of $451K Jury Award
CHICAGO (CBS) – Despite being awarded more than $450,000 in a federal lawsuit against a former jail guard, one of the two men convicted of the 1993 Brown’s Chicken massacre might not see much of that...
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Chicago High Schooler A Finalist In National Science Fair
CHICAGO (CBS) – A Chicago high school senior has reached the finals of a nationwide science competition in Washington. WBBM Newsradio’s Regine Schlesinger reports Rahul Mehta, a senior at the...
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Made In Chicago: Musician Allegra Rosenberg
(CBS) – A 21st century girl and her ukulele, Allegra Rosenberg’s indie-rock music is Made in Chicago. At 18, the Niles North High School honors student has had her music played on and covered by the...
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