Cops Search For Gunman In Deadly Rogers Park Shooting
CHICAGO (CBS) – Chicago police were searching for a masked gunman who shot four teenagers outside a McDonald’s in Rogers Park on Wednesday, killing one of them. Seventeen-year-old Markeyo Carr was shot...
View ArticleCabbies Sue City Over Lack Of Regulation For Ride-Sharing Services
CHICAGO (CBS) – Taxi companies and drivers have sued the city of Chicago, claiming newly proposed regulations for competing ride-sharing companies don’t go far enough, and alleging the city has allowed...
View ArticleCharity For Kids To Serve As Grand Marshals Of Irish Parade
CHICAGO (CBS) – With Chicago still stuck in the icy grip of Old Man Winter, plenty of thoughts have been turning to spring, none moreso than organizers of an event that serves as one of the first signs...
View ArticleFate Of ‘NATO 3′ Now In Hands Of Jury
CHICAGO (CBS) — It is now up to a jury to decide whether three young men, dubbed the NATO 3, are would-be terrorists. Or, as one defense attorney put it, just goofs. Brent Betterly, Jared Chase and...
View ArticleRefuse A ComEd ‘Smart’ Meter, Get Socked With A Monthly Fee
CHICAGO (AP/CBS) – ComEd customers who refuse new smart meters will pay a penalty. The Illinois Commerce Commission on Wednesday approved a $21.53-a-month tariff to the bills of ComEd customers who...
View ArticlePsychiatrist Offers Tips To Combat Winter Blues
(CBS) – How many times have you heard people say they are so over this weather? It’s certainly taking a toll on all of us. As CBS 2’s Dorothy Tucker reports, there are strategies in dealing with the...
View ArticleChicago Auto Show Revs Its Engine Beginning This Weekend
play pause Driver-less Cars Are Coming WBBM Newsradio's Bob Roberts (CBS) – With all the cold and snow and the slipping and the sliding, there’s nothing like coming to the Chicago Auto Show to take...
View ArticleAlderman: Landlord Has Done ‘Bare Minimum’ To Improve Security Where Rape...
(CBS) – Tenants last week complained of gaps in security at their Rogers Park apartment building after a resident was sexually assaulted in the laundry room. The local alderman demanded immediate...
View Article$10,000 Reward Offered To Help Find Gunmen In Store Clerk’s Death
(CBS) – Bensenville Police are offering a reward of up to $10,000 in last month’s shooting death of a store clerk. Hussein Saghir was found dead outside Sam’s Tobacco and Food Mart, at 235 West Irving...
View ArticleIce Damage To Roofs Getting Worse As Deep Freeze Intensifies
(CBS) –As our brutal winter weather continues, the snow, ice, and extreme cold are really causing problems up above. Case in point: the buckling roof at the Toebel Lumber warehouse in Schererville,...
View Article2 Investigators, BGA: Does Chicago Have An Ambulance Shortage?
(CBS) – If you have a life-threatening condition will the city get an ambulance to you in time? CBS 2′s Pam Zekman and the Better Government Association investigated and found they may not. That’s...
View ArticleArtist Won’t Let Disability Stop Her From Painting
(CBS) – What do you do if your passion is painting and a tragedy suddenly leaves you without the use of your arms? One Chicago-area artist did what she had to do. As CBS 2’s Brad Edwards reports, an...
View ArticleFour Hurt In South Side Crash
CHICAGO (STMW) – Four people were hospitalized after a domestic dispute turned into a car chase that ended in a crash in Englewood early Friday. About 12:30 a.m., a 23-year-old woman and her boyfriend...
View ArticleMan Shot And Killed In Ford Heights
FORD HEIGHTS, Ill. (STMW) – Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a man in south suburban Ford Heights. Chris Hollins-Walker, 24, was shot about 2:20 a.m. Wednesday in the 1500 block of...
View ArticleTeens Charged After Fights At Crete-Monee High School
CRETE, Ill. (STMW) – After reviewing video recordings of a series of fights Monday at Crete-Monee High School, police will seek charges of aggravated battery against a 15-year-old male student who...
View ArticleExtra-Alarm Fire Cuts Some Power To Lakeview High-Rise
CHICAGO (STMW) – A two-alarm basement fire caused a Lakeview high-rise apartment building to lose power Thursday night. Chicago Fire Department crews responded to reports of a fire at a high-rise...
View Article1 Dead, 2 Hurt In Crash Near O’Hare
CHICAGO (STMW) – One woman was killed and two others were injured in an early morning crash Friday near O’Hare International Airport. The 60-year-old woman was involved in the two-vehicle crash about...
View ArticleWoman Claims Montessori Teacher Bullied 5-Year-Old Son
CHICAGO (STMW) – A woman is suing a South Side Montessori school, claiming a teacher bullied her 5-year-old son by slapping the boy, calling him names in front of his class and throwing his artwork in...
View ArticleStanley Kubrick’s 1949 Chicago: A City Of Extremes
By John Dodge CHICAGO (CBS) — Before he became one of the greatest film directors of all time, Stanley Kubrick started as a staff photographer for Look Magazine. When he was in his 20s, one of his...
View ArticleDeveloper Of Spire Seeking To Revive 2,000-Foot Skyscraper Project
CHICAGO (CBS) – An ambitious plan to build a 2,000-foot skyscraper in Streeterville could be getting new life, after the developer of the Chicago Spire reportedly found an investor to help it emerge...
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