Armored truck robbed outside bank in Brighton Park
Police scanner reports said the robbers took $50,000 to $90,000—as well as the driver's gun.
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Police scanner reports said the robbers took $50,000 to $90,000—as well as the driver's gun.
Ald. Marty Quinn (13th) accuses the former owner of the bar and the new ownership of brokering an illegal backroom deal that skirts city liquor laws. Charlie De Mar reports.
Ald. Marty Quinn (13th) accuses the former owner of the bar and the new ownership of brokering an illegal backroom deal that skirts city liquor laws.
Wentworth Area detectives were investigating Friday night.
The Resurrection Mary story fits a common ghost story genre called the "vanishing hitchhiker" going back centuries. But some say too many people claim firsthand experiences for this haunting to be written off as the Chicago variation of a dime-a-dozen ghost story.
A car in which the people were found appeared to have bullet holes low in the windshield, and the right front wheel was ripped up.
Just before 5 p.m., the first responders were surrounding a damaged car on Archer Avenue near Pershing Road, alongside a McDonald’s. The car appeared to be riddled with bullet holes. Kris Habermehl reports from Chopper 2.
Volunteers from Envision Community Services tied blue ribbons on street lights and power poles around the neighborhood in honor of fallen Officer Vasquez Lasso.
It was the employee’s first day of work at the massage parlor on Archer Avenue at Rockwell Street when she was attacked just after 10 p.m. Wednesday. CBS 2's Tara Molina reports.
While thousands turned out to the polls to vote in Tuesday's general election, a 14-year-old boy was shot outside a polling place in Brighton Park. CBS 2's Sabrina Franza reports.
A man is dead after being hit by a sport-utility vehicle while crossing busy Archer Avenue in Bridgeport.
A holdup at a Garfield Ridge neighborhood hot dog shop was caught on video, and police are linking the man with a gun to a string of armed robberies.
One of the many drivers who uses a parking lot in McKinley Park for drag racing had defiant words Thursday night.
Fast and furious neighbors have turned a parking lot into a drag strip – ticking off residents of the McKinley Park neighborhood.
One man is dead and another was wounded in a shooting in the McKinley Park neighborhood Thursday afternoon.
An overturned tanker truck was blocking the Archer Avenue late Tuesday afternoon in the southwest suburbs.
A car was left with riddled with bullets in an attack recently, and while the Uber Eats driver survived, he was left with a bullet lodged in his head.
Some more instances of looting and break-ins were reported on Monday night, a night after widespread looting and chaos in and around downtown Chicago.
Brighton Park neighborhood residents reached out to CBS 2 with complaints about an intersection they call high-risk.
A 76-year-old woman was killed Sunday in a two-vehicle crash on Cicero Avenue just north of Midway International Airport.
A man was carjacked and shoved to the ground Thursday evening in Chinatown, police said.
A man is dead after being struck by a vehicle last month on the Southwest Side, police said.
Brad T. Harders, of Genoa, was working on a piece of equipment that cuts logs into boards when he was struck in the head by a log.
A silver Honda and a black Chevrolet crashed head-on on Route 83 about one mile east of Archer Avenue at 5:20 a.m., Cook County sheriff's spokeswoman Sophia Ansari said. The driver of the Honda, identified as a 22-year-old woman by the Cook County medical examiner's office, was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
The blaze at Homer Tree Service, at 16464 W. 143rd St., in Lockport was so large, police shut down the nearby exit ramp on the Veterans Memorial Tollway.
Have you ever wondered how your body is aging, or why some people seem more vibrant the older they get? Those are some of the questions a doctor at Northwestern is trying to answer.
The Bulls tried to plant the seed of female empowerment Wednesday for 35 young women from the Belmont Cragin community.
Concern about the funds is growing now that staffing at the agency has been cut by nearly 50% — from 4,133 to 2,183.
The landfill opened in the early 1980s along the shore, and in 2020, the Army Corps called for extending it.
DePaul (14-18) will play No. 2 seed Creighton in the quarterfinals on Thursday.
Concern about the funds is growing now that staffing at the agency has been cut by nearly 50% — from 4,133 to 2,183.
Candidates in a race that will determine ideological control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court will square off in their only scheduled debate before the April 1 election.
Ald. Stephanie Coleman (16th), who chairs the City Council Black Caucus, said banning the sale of new furs would "have such a devastating economic consequence to our city's small businesses."
Six weeks after the Reed shooting, then-Chief COPA Administrator Andrea Kersten questioned the officers' story in the Dexter Reed shooting. The CCPSA called for her termination.
The Department of Education said staff affected by the job cuts would be placed on leave starting Friday, March 21.
A couple in DuPage County are opening a co-op grocery store they hope can address the strain of ever-rising food costs.
Rosemont, Illinois, is putting the brakes on installing electric vehicle chargers inside parking structures, more than a year after an EV caught fire.
Need a REAL ID? A new supercenter in downtown Chicago will be taking walk-ins starting Wednesday.
The price of a wide array of products will likely soon be going up as a result of the tariffs — affecting everything from food to electronics.
Each batch of paczki requires 32 egg yolks and 16 egg whites, and that cost adds up at Creative Cakes Bakery in Tinley Park.
Have you ever wondered how your body is aging, or why some people seem more vibrant the older they get? Those are some of the questions a doctor at Northwestern is trying to answer.
Five years ago, Northwestern Memorial Hospital's Medical Intensive Care Unit was in the process of being transformed into a COVID ICU.
A second person has died in the measles outbreak that started in West Texas.
More than 97% of measles cases across North and South America have been in the U.S. or Canada.
The girl was not the only child who took the substance this week at McKay School in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood.
Under the city ordinance, fur retailers in Chicago could no longer sell real fur coats. They could only sell those made with synthetic materials.
The price of a wide array of products will likely soon be going up as a result of the tariffs — affecting everything from food to electronics.
The other six stores will remain open.
The call to action — or rather inaction — is asking that American consumers refrain from making any purchases at major retailers on Friday, Feb. 28.
The James Beard Foundation announced Lem's Bar-B-Q as one of six recipients of the America's Classics Award.
The season begins with Luigi Cherubini's "Medea," Oct. 11 to Oct. 26.
According to the Lollapalooza social media accounts, the lineup will be released on March 18.
In announcing Korshak's death, Broadway In Chicago called her a "trailblazing force" in the public relations industry.
"Anora" won big at the 2025 Oscars. Here's the full list of who won and was nominated for this year's Academy Awards.
David Johansen, the gravelly-voiced singer, was last surviving member of the glam and protopunk band the New York Dolls.
Meteorologist Kylee Miller has your 10 p.m. First Alert Weather forecast for Wednesday, March 12, 2025.
Researchers at the Potocsnak Longevity Institute at Northwestern are looking into the difference between a person’s chronological age — how many years they have lived, and their biological age — how old their body actually is. Charlie De Mar got examined himself.
Thirty-five girls learned Wednesday night how the game of basketball can instill confidence — with the help of two former Chicago Bulls players. Marissa Sulek reports.
Staffing at the Department of Education has been cut by nearly 50% — from 4,133 to 2,183. Charlie De Mar reports.
For years, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers insisted that extending the landfill was the best option. But after a lengthy legal fight, the corps has changed its position. Jermont Terry reports.
Have you ever wondered how your body is aging, or why some people seem more vibrant the older they get?
The landfill opened in the early 1980s along the shore, and in 2020, the Army Corps called for extending it.
Concern about the funds is growing now that staffing at the agency has been cut by nearly 50% — from 4,133 to 2,183.
The Bulls tried to plant the seed of female empowerment Wednesday for 35 young women from the Belmont Cragin community.
Police said during the fight, a 25-year-old man was shot twice in the lower body.
A mother has filed a lawsuit against the State of Illinois and others her son's death by suicide. Internal documents and emails show missteps that may have led to her son's death.
Cook County Crime Stoppers are now offering a new $1,000 reward for information leading to an indictment or arrest in the murder of Rosa Chacon.
CBS News Chicago obtained records showing Heights Crematory in Chicago Heights, Illinois had been repeatedly warned by the state for their handling of bodies waiting to be cremated.
Rose Bronstein founded the group Buckets Over Bullying, and has been moving mountains with her local organization.
Heights Crematory in Chicago Heights is accused of mishandling the bodies of people who recently died.
The Bulls tried to plant the seed of female empowerment Wednesday for 35 young women from the Belmont Cragin community.
DePaul (14-18) will play No. 2 seed Creighton in the quarterfinals on Thursday.
Northwestern (17-15) earned its first conference tournament win since 2022 for a chance to play No. 5 Wisconsin in Thursday's second round.
Saint Patrick in Portage Park are off to the tournament after beatin Mount Carmel High School in supersectionals.
Somehow, Wildcats workhorse Nick Martinelli was not selected First Team All-League in postseason awards Tuesday.
Officers encountered a suspect, which resulted in a foot chase and an exchange of gunfire at multiple nearby locations, police said.
Robert Davis was the last person to see his girlfriend Barbara Lenz alive before she vanished in 1989, Iowa investigators said.
Charles Poulos, 55, was charged with one count of first-degree murder, according to the Glenview Police Department.
Micheail Ward's conviction was thrown out, after an appeals court ruled detectives violated his constitutional rights during his interrogation.
Zulma Pacheco's boyfriend of five years said he was with her at the nightclub the night she was shot, and he carried her out after he saw she was bleeding.
