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Neighbor Feud Ends With 3 Shot, 1 Fatally, On South Side
By John Dodge CHICAGO (CBS) — One person was killed and two others injured after an argument between neighbors escalated into a shooting involving an off-duty police officer Friday afternoon on the...
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Former North Chicago Cop Gets 10 years For Fatal Wrong-Way DUI Crash
Ex-North Chicago Cop Sentenced In Wrong-Way CrashWBBM 780/105.9FMplaypause (STMW) – A Cook County judge Friday sentenced a former North Chicago cop to 10 years in prison for a wrong-way drunk-driving...
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Former Blagojevich Cabinet Member Fined $100K For Ethics Violation
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A former director of the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services has been fined $100,000 for violating the ethics act for state employees. The Executive Ethics...
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In Rome, Cardinal George Is Missed
(CBS) – He’s the missing man: Francis Cardinal George. For the first time in 17 years, due to his poor health, he isn’t leading the Chicago Catholic delegation to an important papal event. CBS 2’s...
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Someone You Should Know: Miss Wheelchair Illinois
(CBS) – She’s a beauty queen with an important message. Pearl Gannon, Miss Wheelchair Illinois, is someone you should know, reports CBS 2’s Harry Porterfield. Gannon was eight years old when she slowly...
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North Side Business Gearing Up For Fight With CTA Over Land Grab
(CBS) – They have a date with the wrecking ball. The CTA has identified the roughly 20 buildings that will have to go to make room for a proposed bypass for the Red and Purple lines. Most are not far...
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Knife-Wielding Robber Confronts Mother In Woodridge
(CBS) – Police in southwest suburban Woodridge are looking for the man with a butcher knife who robbed a woman in a grocery store parking lot while her children were in the car. The suspect wore a...
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Is Sainthood On Horizon For African-American Priest With Ties To Chicago?
(CBS) – This Sunday, the Roman Catholic church will do something it’s never done before: elevate two popes, at the same time, to sainthood. As CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports, if some...
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Your Chicago: Hockey On Your Block
(CBS) – Youth hockey is exploding in the Chicago area. But the fact is there are still many children who don’t have the opportunity to play the game. CBS 2’s Rob Johnson introduces us to a man who’s...
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Four Dead, At Least 34 Wounded Since Friday Evening
(STMW) – Four people are dead and at least 34 others have been wounded in shootings across the city since Friday night. The most recent fatal shooting happened early Sunday in the Logan Square...
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No Injuries After House Explosion In Long Grove
(CBS) – Several north suburban communities were rocked by a late-night explosion. Ground zero sits in an upscale subdivision in Long Grove. CBS 2’s Courtney Gousman found several families were forced...
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Two More Victims Killed In Kabul Hospital Attack Had Chicago Ties
(AP) – A proud father visiting his son in Afghanistan spent what would become both men’s final days seeing the city where the younger man ran a small clinic, drinking tea with a university colleague...
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Police: Man broke Into Burbank Home, Tugged On Sleeping Female’s Clothes
(STMW) – A female woke up to an unknown man tugging on her clothes after apparently breaking into her southwest suburban Burbank home early Saturday. The female–whose exact age was not immediately...
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Elgin Bicyclist Killed By Freight Train After Falling On Tracks
(STMW) – A bicyclist who fell on train tracks in northwest suburban Elgin died after being hit by a freight train early Saturday, the Courier-News is reporting. Emergency crews responded to call of...
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Woman Attended Anti-Violence Fundraiser Before Being Fatally Shot
CHICAGO (AP) — A woman who had just attended a fundraiser for an anti-violence organization was shot to death in Chicago. Leonore Draper (courtesy: Christina Isherwood) Thirty-two-year-old Leonore...
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Marrow Drive Draws Dozens Of Volunteers In Lincolnshire
(CBS) – Students, teachers and families came together Saturday at a north suburban school to donate blood and register to be bone marrow donors. It’s all to honor three students with cancer. Ester...
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Pedestrian Struck, Killed In Austin Hit-And-Run
(STMW) – A man was struck by an SUV and killed early Saturday three blocks from his home in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side. Artiz McBride, 20, was struck by the SUV while he was crossing the...
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Chicago’s Polish-American Community Well-Represented For John Paul II’s...
(CBS) – People from all over the world are now in Rome, getting ready to celebrate the rise to sainthood of two popes. And while the leader of Chicago’s Catholic Archdioese may not be there, CBS 2...
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Woman, 18, Charged With Murder Following Discovery Of Dead Newborn
(CBS) – An 18-year-old Chicago woman placed her newborn son inside a plastic bag and left the child outside, where he was later found dead, Chicago police said. Ana Rosa Mora, 18, of the 2700 block of...
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Woman Shot To Death In Logan Square
CHICAGO (STMW) – A woman has died after being shot in the Logan Square neighborhood early Sunday. The 21-year-old woman was a rear seat passenger in a vehicle traveling eastbound in the area of 3500...
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