Blue Line Train Derails After Hitting Truck Tire On Tracks
Updated 04/11/14 – 8:38 a.m. A CTA Blue Line train headed to Forest Park derailed slightly Thursday night, after hitting a truck tire that had fallen on the tracks. The train was leaving the Cicero...
View ArticleLyons Police Force Will Cut Department By One-Third: Union
(CBS) – A suburban police department is cutting its force by one-third. The police union representing Lyons police personnel confirmed to CBS 2 that it has been informed by the village that the jobs of...
View Article2 Investigators: Injured Fans File Lawsuits Against Major Concert Promoter
By Dave Savini (CBS) – They went for the music and ended up in the hospital. Some concertgoers at major local venues say poor crowd control and inadequate security endangered fans. CBS 2′s Dave Savini...
View ArticleOfficials Investigate Sexting At Homer Glen Middle School
(STMW) — School officials and the Will County Sheriff’s office are investigating reports of sexting among sixth-grade students at Hadley Middle School in southwest suburban Homer Glen. The...
View ArticleWoman Sexually Assaulted On Northwest Side
CHICAGO (STMW) – A woman was sexually assaulted Tuesday night on the Northwest Side. About 9:30 p.m., the 18-year-old was walking past the north alley in the 4600 block of West Montana Street when a...
View ArticleMan “Seriously” Injured In North Side Hit-And-Run
CHICAGO (STMW) – A 63-year-old man was “seriously” injured in a hit-and-run crash in a bank parking lot on the North Side Thursday afternoon. About 3 p.m., a 63-year-old man was struck by an dark gray...
View ArticleSeven Wounded In Shootings Across Chicago
CHICAGO (STMW) – Seven people were wounded in separate shootings across the city since Thursday afternoon. The most recent shooting occurred about 1:50 a.m. Friday when a 25-year-old woman was shot in...
View ArticleIllinois House OKs Ride-Sharing Regulations
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois lawmakers took steps Thursday toward creating rules for unregulated ridesharing companies, which have gained popularity in Chicago the past few years. The companies —...
View ArticleAmendment Protecting Ill. Voters To Go On Ballot
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois voters will consider a constitutional amendment this fall aimed at scuttling attempts at voter suppression after Senate action Thursday. The Senate voted 52-0 to...
View ArticleState Representative Elected To Local School Council
CHICAGO (CBS) – An Illinois state representative who once proposed merit pay for local school council members was among the 6,000 people recently elected to LSCs in Chicago. WBBM Newsradio’s Steve...
View ArticleFirefighter, 3 Others Hospitalized After Separate South Side Fires
CHICAGO (STMW) – A Chicago firefighter and three other people were hospitalized and twenty people were displaced by two separate fires on the South Side Friday morning. The firefighter, two children...
View ArticlePolice Investigating Sexting Incident At Homer Glen Middle School
Updated 04/11/14 – 11:22 a.m. HOMER GLEN, Ill. (CBS) – Counselors were visiting a middle school in southwest suburban Homer Glen on Friday to talk to children about the dangers of sexting, as police...
View ArticleLawsuit Accuses CTA Of Filming Employees Changing Clothes
CHICAGO (CBS) – Five CTA current and former employees have sued the agency, claiming it placed hidden cameras in an area used as a changing room at a station on the Green Line, and recorded them...
View ArticleWoman Dead, 4 People Hurt In West Pullman Crash
CHICAGO (STMW) – One woman died after a pin-in crash that seriously injured four others Thursday night in the South Side West Pullman neighborhood. Three adults and two children, whose ages and genders...
View ArticleMore Than 200 Animals Killed In Wisconsin Barn Fire
(CBS) – Nearly 250 animals were killed in a barn fire Thursday in Whitewater, Wis. WBBM Newsradio’s Mike Krauser reports, when firefighters arrived, the barn was totally engulfed in flames, and the...
View ArticleFor The First Time In Six Months, Chicago To See 70
By John Dodge CHICAGO (CBS) — Chiberia, we hardly knew ye. Saturday’s forecast calls for a high temperature of 72 degrees, which will be the first time is six months that Chicago has felt that kind of...
View ArticleWelcome To Chicagoland, The 81st State In The Union
By John Dodge CHICAGO (CBS) — History buff Andrew Shears doesn’t really live in an alternate reality, but he does like to imagine what the United States might look like if one added small twists to...
View Article“Hope Is In The Air” As Washington Begins Rebuilding After Tornado
(CBS) – With a long, harsh winter finally over, residents in downstate Washington have resumed the rebuilding process in earnest, nearly five months after the town was devastated by a tornado. “We...
View ArticleVolunteers Help Refurbish Home Of Injured Marine
Injured Veteran's House Gets Makeover WBBM 780/105.9FMplaypause STICKNEY, Ill. (CBS) – A U.S. Marine whose career was cut short by a traumatic brain injury was getting his Stickney home refurbished by...
View ArticleKirk Wants U.S. To Publish List Of Airports With Lax Passport Screening
Senator Says Most Overseas Airports Don't Check For Stolen Passports WBBM 780/105.9FMplaypause CHICAGO (CBS) – U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk has proposed legislation that would require the federal government to...
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