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Woman Dead In Crash On Dan Ryan
Updated 03/24/14 – 11:01 a.m. CHICAGO (CBS) – A 25-year-old woman was killed when her car hit a tow truck, then crashed into a wall dividing the Dan Ryan Expressway from the CTA Red Line near 87th...
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GrubHub Raises Anticipated Size Of IPO To $177.9M
CHICAGO (AP) – Online delivery company GrubHub plans to raise as much as $178 million from its initial public offering. That increases the offering’s expected size from $100 million a month ago. The...
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Immigrant Activist Brings Reform Fight Back To Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS) – A familiar face in the debate over immigration rights was back in Chicago on Monday, nearly seven years after she was deported to Mexico, following her yearlong stay in a local church...
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West Town Distillery Wants To Make Brandy The Next Big Drink
CHICAGO (CBS) – For Jenny Solberg’s family, it’s all about brandy; specifically apple brandy. “Everyone else is focusing on whiskeys, vodkas, gins; and so we’re really sticking with our roots with what...
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Suburban Fire Department To Sell Ads On Its Fleet
PALATINE, Ill. (CBS) – A suburban fire department has found an innovative way to raise some much-needed revenue. WBBM Newsradio’s Regine Schlesinger reports the Palatine Rural FireProtection District...
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Retired Chicago Police Sergeant Dies 2 Weeks After Home Invasion
CHICAGO (CBS) – A retired Chicago police sergeant who went blind from diabetes has died, two weeks after he was shot during a home invasion in the East Side neighborhood. Elmer Brown, 73, died at...
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Man Charged With Murder For Fatal Shooting In Waukegan
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (STMW) – A north suburban man has been charged with murder for the fatal shooting of a 53-year-old man following an argument last week in Waukegan. Miguel Leyva, 24, has been charged...
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DuPage Deputy Uses Narcan To Revive Woman After Heroin Overdose
(CBS) — A young woman is alive after a DuPage deputy administered a fast acting heroin antidote, reports WBBM’s John Cody. A spoon, cotton and a package wrapper were clues to the cause of the young...
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Nanci Koschman Hopes Federal Lawsuit Will Uncover Truth About Son’s Death
CHICAGO (CBS) – The mother of the young man killed in a brawl with a relative of former Mayor Richard M. Daley has launched a lawsuit she says she hopes will uncover the truth about her son’s death....
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Family Of Boy Killed By Fleeing Car Sues CPD Over Chase
CHICAGO (STMW) – The family of an 11-year-old boy killed when a car thief fleeing from police crashed has filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department. Donovan Turnage’s death on Dec. 21 was...
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19 Men Charged With Stealing From Railroad Boxcars
(CBS) – The Sheriff of Lake County Indiana says 19 men face charges for theft of $2.5 million in goods stolen from boxcars in Chicago and Indiana. Lake County Sheriff John Buncich says his deputies...
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Third Man Charged Following Fatal Shooting Of Bensenville Clerk
WHEATON, Ill. (STMW) — A Chicago man is charged with harassing a witness in the case of a northwest suburban Bensenville store clerk shot to death during a robbery in January. Stephan Russell, 20, is...
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Explosion Levels New Lenox Residence
(CBS) – Emergency officials are responding to a house explosion in southwest suburban New Lenox. There were no immediate reports of injuries. A battalion chief tells CBS there was an explosion around 2...
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Construction Begins On Navy Pier Flyover
CHICAGO (CBS) — One of Chicago’s biggest bottlenecks doesn’t occur on the roadways, it’s on the lakefront trail where it passes Navy Pier. Bikers, joggers, skaters and even cars compete and sometimes...
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2-Year-Old Rescued From Pond Remains In Critical Condition
(MONTGOMERY, Ill. (STMW) –A 2-year-old boy is in critical condition after being rescued from a retention pond Monday afternoon near west suburban Montgomery. Kendall County Sheriff’s deputies responded...
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O’Hare CTA Crash Brings NTSB Back To Chicago
By Dave Savini (CBS) – Monday’s CTA train crash at O’Hare International Airport is the second time in two years the National Transportation Safety Board has launched an investigation into the Chicago...
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Officer Injured Responding To South Side Battery
(STMW) – A police officer was hurt while responding to a battery Monday afternoon in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. The officer was responding to a call of a battery in progress about 4:15 p.m....
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Mother Of Abandoned Infant Arrives At Police Station
CHICAGO (CBS) – The mother of an infant girl who was founded abandoned in an Auburn Gresham apartment building hallway last week turned herself into detectives Monday night. The 24-year-old suspect was...
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Park Ridge Man Charged In Fatal Hit-And-Run
(CBS) – Chicago police have announced charges against a 42-year-old Park Ridge man in the weekend hit-and-run that left a 33-year-old man dead. Timothy McShane faces several felony counts, including...
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Two Arrested After Shooting, Crash In Logan Square
CHICAGO (STMW) – Two people are in custody following an incident involving gunfire and a crash early Tuesday morning in the Northwest Side Logan Square neighborhood. About 1:55 a.m., police saw...
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