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Head-On Collision Sends Four To Hospital
CHICAGO (STMW) – One woman was critically injured and three others were hospitalized after a wrong-way driver collided with another vehicle in the Northwest Side Edison Park neighborhood. Around...
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New Citizen Advisory Committee To Work With Police In North Chicago
NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. (STMW) – North suburban North Chicago announced Saturday the formation of a United States Justice Department-inspired Citizen Advisory Committee for the police department, and Mayor...
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Elderly Man Fatally Struck By Vehicle On SW Side
CHICAGO (STMW) — An 84-year-old man died early Saturday after he was struck by a Jeep last week in the South Lawndale neighborhood on the Southwest Side. David Vega, of the 2800 block of South Lawndale...
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Salvation Army Hosts Sober Super Bowl Party
CHICAGO (CBS) — It’s one Super Bowl party where everyone could be the designated driver. WBBM’s Nancy Harty explains. For over ten years, the Salvation Army has been hosting a sober Super Bowl party at...
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Cops: Victim Traps Would-Be Car Thief In Garage
CHICAGO (STMW) – When Andre Bacon repeatedly demanded a woman give him the keys to her 2012 Acura MDX in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood Saturday, Chicago Police said, she did so. And then she closed...
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Forecasters And Groundhog Agree: 6 More Weeks Of Winter
CHICAGO (STMW) – A furry rodent with giant front teeth saw its shadow in Pennsylvania on Sunday, damning us to six more weeks of winter — a prediction that seems plausible to weather experts in Chicago...
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Pest Control House Calls Spike As Rats Seek Refuge From Extreme Cold
CHICAGO (STMW) – The rats are coming — poking their twitchy little noses underneath porches, beneath doors, even inside airport hangars. Several area pest-control businesses say they’ve seen a spike...
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Man Kills Wife And 2 Kids In Robbins, Dies Of Unknown Causes
Updated 02/03/14 – 9:20 a.m. CHICAGO (CBS) – Police were hailing a 14-year-old boy as a hero, for saving his own life and the life of his 5-year-old nephew, after his stepfather had killed his mother...
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8 Hurt In South Side Crash
CHICAGO (CBS) – Eight people were injured in a crash Monday morning in the Fuller Park neighborhood. A 29-year-old woman driving a minivan west on 43rd Street ran a red light and smashed into a sedan...
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1 Dead, 9 Wounded In Weekend Shootings
CHICAGO (STMW) – One man was killed and at least 9 other people have been wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday night. Two men were shot — one fatally — about 10:30 p.m. while they were...
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SUV Crashes Into IDOT Truck On Kennedy Expressway
CHICAGO (STMW) – A man drove an SUV into an IDOT maintenance truck that was stopped to help a motorist on the Interstate 90/94 Kennedy Expressway, sending a worker and driver to area hospitals Sunday...
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1 Dead, 7 Injured When Cars Hit Logan Square Building
Updated 02/03/14 – 9:38 a.m. CHICAGO (CBS) – Eight people were taken to hospitals early Monday, after two vehicles crashed into a building in the Logan Square neighborhood. One of those victims later...
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Woman Finally Freed From Icy Trap Surrounding Her Home
CHICAGO (CBS) — River Bully has been freed from her home after being trapped inside for weeks, surrounded by a massive amount of ice. A broken water pipe next door resulted in the ice that was so thick...
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Near West Side Fire Leaves One Critically Injured
CHICAGO (STMW) – A man was critically injured after jumping out of a window during a fire Monday morning on the Near West Side. A still-and-box alarm was called about 8 a.m. for the blaze at the...
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Another Winter Storm Bears Down On Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS) – Lost in the Super Bowl hype was the fact that the groundhog says we will have six more weeks of winter. Whatever. It does seem like this winter feels like the Bill Murray movie. In...
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Chicago Has Already Filled Nearly 100,000 Potholes In 2014
CHICAGO (CBS) — The Chicago Department of Transportation expects to fill its 100-thousandth pothole of this new year on Monday. Department of Transportation spokesman Pete Scales says reaching the...
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Six Years Later, Lane Bryant Killings Unsolved
CHICAGO (CBS) — Six years and thousands of tips later, there has been no arrest in the Lane Bryant massacre. This weekend marked the sixth anniversary of the day five women were fatally shot in the...
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Snarf’s Reaches Agreement With Workers Fired By Email Days Before Christmas
CHICAGO (CBS) — The Snarf’s chain of sandwich shops has reached a settlement with 14 workers who were fired by email, just days before Christmas. The story from WBBM’s Regine Schlesinger. The entire...
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Off-Duty Officer Shoots Would-Be Robber At Walgreens
CHICAGO (CBS) – An off-duty police officer was in the right place at the right time Monday to stop a robbery in progress in the Jefferson Park neighborhood. A spokesperson for the police union says the...
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Man Cleared Of Double Murder Sues Chicago, Police
CHICAGO (AP) – A Chicago man released from prison last year after serving 20 years for a double homicide filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging that officers beat him into confessing to the crime and...
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