Morgan Park Kindergartners Meet Elderly Pen Pals
(CBS) – Monica and Kate are new pen pals who met for the first time in person on Tuesday. Monica Joria is 100 years old. Kate is 5, and is in kindergarten at St. Cajetan Elementary School in the Morgan...
View ArticleFriend Sets Up Fund For Family Of Murdered Aurora Nurse
(CBS) – The lifelong friend of an Aurora nurse murdered this past weekend has set up a fund to help the woman’s three young children. play pause Friend Sets Up Fund For Family Of Murdered Aurora Nurse...
View ArticleAuthorities: Boy, 15, Had Gun In Chicago Elementary School
CHICAGO (CBS) — A 15-year-old boy is accused of bringing a loaded gun to school and showing it off at Mollison Elementary School. Mollison is a Safe Passage school in Bronzeville at 44th and King...
View ArticleLineup Announced For Chicago’s Blues Festival
CHICAGO (CBS) – The city’s announcing the line-up for Chicago’s first major summer music festival, reports WBBM’s Regine Schlesinger. Chicago’s Blues Festival is the world’s largest of its kind. Among...
View ArticleHead Of Landmarks Illinois Lobbies Springfield For Help To Save Historic...
(CBS) – Landmarks Illinois has scoured the state for structures that need help fending off the bulldozer of progress, reports WBBM’s John Cody. Landmarks Illinois President Bonnie McDonald has lobbying...
View ArticleCops: Woman Strikes Former Roommate With Car In McDonald’s Lot
ZION, Ill. (STMW) – A north suburban woman is facing felony charges after striking a former roommate with her car after the two argued at a McDonald’s restaurant in Zion. Starr Peet, 33, of the 2900...
View ArticleLegendary Chicago House Musician Frankie Knuckles Dies
CHICAGO (CBS) — He was known as the “Godfather” of Chicago House music. 59-year-old Frankie Knuckles was found dead in his Chicago home Monday. CBS 2′s Derrick Blakley talked with those who knew and...
View ArticlePerson Of Interest In Custody For Two Early Morning Shootings
CHICAGO (CBS) – Chicago Police have a person of interest in custody being questioned for two shootings early Tuesday morning. Police say a man walked into a store at 63rd and Western and fatally shot...
View ArticleDriver Charged With Murder For Fatal Rear-End Crash On Edens
SKOKIE, Ill. (STMW) – A north suburban man whose car rear-ended an SUV on the Edens Expressway early Sunday causing a fatal accident has been charged with murder, according to state police. Jose L....
View ArticleMore Than 300 Denied Concealed Carry Licenses After Instructor Decertified
(CBS) — A southwest suburban firearms instructor has been kicked out of the state’s concealed-carry training program, and those students he’s trained will have to go through classes again. State Police...
View ArticleWomen Trampled Before Concert Sue Beyonce, United Center, Live Nation
(STMW) – Two women staked out the United Center for several hours with the hopes of being at the foot of the stage during Beyonce’s performance last December. But instead of being up close for the...
View Article2 Kids, Woman Wounded In South Shore Shooting
CHICAGO (CBS) – Two kids and a woman were shot Tuesday evening in the 2500 block of East 78th Street, according to Chicago Police News Affairs. One of the victims is a four-year-old boy who was shot in...
View ArticleThousands Of Dead Fish Washing Up On Shores Of North Suburban Lakes
LINDENHURST, Ill. (CBS) — By the thousands, fish are dying in the shallower man-made lakes of the Chicago area. CBS 2’s Mike Parker reports that the long, cold winter is to blame. At sunset Tuesday...
View Article2 Investigators: Dried Poppy Pods Sale Lands Chicago-Area Man In Legal Trouble
(CBS) — Baking with poppy seeds and using the pods in flower arrangements are both common but few people know that growing a certain kind of poppy plant or possessing them is illegal in the United...
View ArticleFormer Robbins Cop Sues Village For Discrimination
(STMW) – A former Robbins police detective is suing village officials over alleged racial discrimination in hiring practices and for retribution when he sought drug charges against a relative of Mayor...
View ArticleWoman, 2 Grandsons Shot; Neighbor Says ‘We’ve Got To Wear Body Armor Out Here’
Updated 04/02/14 – 12:46 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) – Police were searching for the person responsible for shooting a woman and her two grandsons, ages 3 and 5, in the South Shore neighborhood Tuesday night....
View ArticleMan Charged In Chicago Lawn Slaying, Uptown Shooting
CHICAGO (CBS) – A Chicago man has been charged with murder and attempted murder, after killing a convenience store clerk in Chicago Lawn, and shooting another man in Uptown on Tuesday. Joey Jones, 31,...
View ArticleSouth Suburban Volunteer Coach Charged With Sex Abuse
JOLIET, Ill. (STMW) – A volunteer gymnastics coach at south suburban Lincoln-Way Community High School District 210 — who was a former gymnastics state champion for the district — has been charged with...
View ArticleMan Held On $5 Million Bail In Murder Of Aurora Nurse
AURORA, Ill. (CBS) – Friends of a slain Aurora nurse have raised more than $8,000 to help the three children she left behind, while her ex-boyfriend sits behind bars, accused of strangling her before...
View ArticleZoning Committee OKs Bridgeport Heliport Plan
CHICAGO (CBS) – A Wheeling company’s plan to build a heliport along the Chicago River in Bridgeport has cleared a major hurdle, and likely will be approved by the City Council on Wednesday, over the...
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