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3 weeks ago | 
cbsnews.com | John Odenthal |Rebecca McCann
Dan Ryan Expressway backed up after high-speed police pursuit, arrest A high-speed pursuit sent police after a car plowing recklessly down the Eisenhower and Dan Ryan expressways during the afternoon rush Thursday. Police started following the car on the Eisenhower Expressway on Chicago's West Side. The car was wanted for fleeing and eluding out of west suburban Oak Brook.
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1 month ago | 
cbsnews.com | Adam Harrington |John Odenthal
Police on Sunday issued surveillance photos of a man who robbed a passenger on a Chicago Transit Authority Green Line train on the city's West Side this week. At 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 12, a man was on a westbound Green Line train near the Cicero Avenue stop on the cusp of the West Garfield Park and North Austin neighborhoods, when the robber started giving him suspicious looks, police said.
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1 month ago | 
cbsnews.com | Adam Harrington |John Odenthal |Steffanie Dupree
St. Patrick's Day weekend festivities continued Sunday with the South Side Irish Parade in Chicago's Beverly neighborhood. Dozens of floats and hundreds of marchers took part in the parade along Western Avenue between 103rd and 115th streets — braving chilly and snowy weather. The Big Shoulders Fund, a nonprofit organization that provides support for Catholic schools in Chicago, was the grand marshal this year.
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1 month ago | 
cbsnews.com | Todd Feurer |John Odenthal
Dozens of scientists braved the rain and snow in Chicago on Saturday to voice their anger with the Trump administration, holding a "Stand Up for Science" rally downtown. Protesters called on the Trump administration to end mass layoffs at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and other scientific institutions. The also called for funding on scientific grants to be unfrozen. Protesters were joined by U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL).
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1 month ago | 
cbsnews.com | Adam Harrington |John Odenthal
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is pushing a bill that would allow community colleges to offer four-year degrees. Pritzker proposed the new community college baccalaureate degree program Monday with students and leadership from Lewis and Clark Community College in downstate Godfrey near St. Louis. The governor said the program would make bachelor's degrees more accessible and higher education more affordable.
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1 month ago | 
cbsnews.com | Adam Harrington |John Odenthal
Some Chicagoans will have fewer options next time they want to grab a pizza. By the end of the day Sunday, three Home Run Inn locations will be out of business. The company said it is shutting down its restaurants at 3401 S. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood, 6825 W. Cermak Rd. in west suburban Berwyn, and 820 W. North Ave. in west suburban Melrose Park. The other six stores will remain open. They are located at 6221 S. Archer Ave.
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2 months ago | 
cbsnews.com | Adam Harrington |John Odenthal
Leaders in Oak Park, Illinois, want to crack down on products made from hemp that contain THC. Currently, the minimum age for buying marijuana in Illinois is 21. But there is a legal loophole going all the way up to the federal level for products containing THC sourced from hemp rather than marijuana. THC is the chemical that causes the psychoactive effects of marijuana.
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2 months ago | 
cbsnews.com | Adam Harrington |Raza Siddiqui |John Odenthal
Participants climb 94 flights of stairs for Hustle Chicago Hundreds of Chicagoans got their blood flowing for a good cause Sunday morning. They took part in Hustle Chicago, formerly known as Hustle up the Hancock. The event was renamed because the iconic skyscraper at 875 N. Michigan Ave. where it takes place is not officially called the John Hancock Center anymore. In Hustle Chicago, each participant climbed 94 flights of stairs — 1,632 stairs in all.
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2 months ago | 
cbsnews.com | Adam Harrington |John Odenthal
CHICAGO (CBS) -- The National Transportation Safety Board has released its final report on the crash on the Chicago Transit Authority's Yellow Line that sent 16 people to the hospital in 2023. The two-car train crashed into a snow plow around 10:30 a.m. Nov. 17, 2023, on the main tracks adjacent to the Howard rail yard in Rogers Park.
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2 months ago | 
cbsnews.com | Adam Harrington |John Odenthal
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Two teenage boys were stabbed in a fight with a third teen boy in Bronzeville late Monday. Police said at 5:07 p.m., the two boys, ages 15 and 16, got into a fight with another 15-year-old boy in the 3500 block of South Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. The second 15-year-old boy took out a sharp object and stabbed the other two boys, police said.
