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Caputo & Sons Expanding Into Four Closed Dominick’s Stores
(CBS) – Four former Dominick’s stores in the northwest suburbs have been purchased by independent chain Joe Caputo & Sons Fruit Market. A company representative confirmed to CBS 2 that the chain...
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Illinois Hospice Company Owner Charged With Fraud
CHICAGO (AP) – An owner of a major Illinois hospice-care provider encouraged subordinates to extend end-of-life care to patients who weren’t actually terminally ill and to fraudulently switch to...
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Emanuel To Competing Chicago Groups: Only One Bid For Obama Library
(CBS) – The Emanuel administration intends to help coordinate one formal bid for President Obama’s future library and museum, even though several proposals were being developed by competing groups....
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Jet Passengers Sent Down Emergency Chutes At O’Hare
(CBS) – Passengers aboard a flight from Washington, D.C. were sent down emergency-evacuation chutes after their jet landed Monday at O’Hare Airport amid concerns there was something wrong with the...
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Driver Charged In I-88 Crash That Killed Tollway Worker
Updated 01/28/14 – 7:38 p.m. AURORA, Ill. (CBS) – An Illinois Tollway maintenance worker was killed, and an Illinois State Police trooper was injured when a semi-tractor trailer crashed into their...
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Doctors: Winter Can Be Depressing, But Rarely Seriously
CHICAGO (CBS) – If you feel like being cooped up inside because of the cold weather is making you a little nutty, you’re not alone; but experts say the cold rarely poses a serious psychological...
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Midway Airport Had Record 20 Million Passengers Last Year
CHICAGO (STMW) – In 2013, Midway International Airport recorded its highest passenger total in its 86-year history. More than 20 million passengers traveled through the airport last year, according to...
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Man Robbed, Raped Near CTA Station
CHICAGO (STMW) – A 24-year-old man told police he was robbed and sexually assaulted at knifepoint near the North and Clybourne CTA station at 1 a.m. Tuesday. The man told officers he was sitting on a...
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Freight Train Derailment Halts Metra North Central Service
Updated 01/28/14 – 11:49 a.m. MUNDELEIN, Ill. (CBS) – Metra passengers in many north suburbs had to find another way to get around on Tuesday, after a freight train derailment forced Metra to halt...
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Two Dead In Norwood Park Crash
CHICAGO (STMW) – Two men were killed in a rollover crash Monday night in the Norwood Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side. A GMC Envoy SUV was northbound on the 6000 block of North Milwaukee Avenue...
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Chicago Temps Back Above Zero, For Now
Updated 01/28/14 – 1:55 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) – After nearly 33 hours of temperatures below zero, Chicago got a (very) small measure of relief Tuesday afternoon, when the mercury inched back above zero....
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So Far, January Ranks No. 4 All Time For Snow
CHICAGO (CBS) — If record-setting cold temperatures this month weren’t enough, the amount of snow is also one for the record books. January 2014 ranks No. 4 all time for the snowiest month on record,...
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Power Grid Operator Asks People To Reduce Electricity Use
CHICAGO (CBS) – A Pennsylvania company that manages the power grid for Illinois and a dozen other states was asking consumers to cut back on their electricity use Tuesday. WBBM Newsradio’s Regine...
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In Cold Weather, A Great Offer On Soup For Elderly
CHICAGO (CBS) — Finally, something good associated with the brutally low temperatures. The company that operates three Mather’s restaurants in Chicago is selling soup based on the temperature through...
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Youth Shootings Drop By 40 Percent In 2013 In Chicago
CHICAGO (STMW) – The youth violence that has too often drawn a national spotlight on Chicago has taken a significant dip, a new analysis shows. According to a report obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times,...
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What Chicago Looked Like In 1833
CHICAGO (CBS) — In 1833 in Chicago, the mail came once a week from Michigan to the 350 residents of what was a four-square block hamlet. In 1833, Chicago stood on the American frontier. Outside the...
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Classes To Resume Wednesday For Chicago Public Schools
CHICAGO (CBS) – After two days off for the extreme cold, classes will resume Wednesday for all Chicago Public Schools. CPS officials cancelled classes on Monday and Tuesday, as temperatures both days...
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What The Internet Thinks About Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS) — Here is what the Internet thinks of Chicago: It’s cold. It’s windy. It’s segregated. It’s dangerous. That is based on Google’s “auto complete” feature when web users type in the words...
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Mayor Confident City Will Have Enough Snow Removal Money This Winter
CHICAGO (CBS) – Although the city of Chicago has spent the vast majority of its budget for salting and plowing roads, because of an especially brutal winter, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said City Hall has the...
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Unions Sue To Block State Pension Reform Plan
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Labor unions filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to throw out Illinois’ new law aimed at eliminating a worst-in-the-nation pension shortfall, a long-anticipated move that could...
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