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CHICAGO (CBS) — Mayor Lori Lightfoot has tapped Gia Biagi, an urban planner with renowned architecture firm Studio Gang, as the new commissioner of the Chicago Department of Transportation, the agency responsible for overseeing road and…

by Todd Feurer, CBS Chicago web producer. Paige Tortorelli contributed to this report. CHICAGO (CBS) — A top official at the Chicago Department of Aviation has been arrested for fraud, accused of nearly $6,500 in purchases on his credit…

by Todd Feurer, CBS Chicago web producer CHICAGO (CBS) — Two proposed settlements in lawsuits claiming police misconduct were held up in the City Council Finance Committee on Monday, but could come up for a vote later this week. The…

CHICAGO (CBS) — Maybe you’ve seen ads from car dealers warning people to avoid double taxation; they want buyers to trade in their cars now, because a new state law could cost them more in sales taxes in 2020. CBS 2 Morning Insider Tim…

CHICAGO (CBS) — Friends and family continue demanding answers, more than two weeks after the death of Eugenio Escriba, a proud member of the LGBTQ community who died at Jewel grocery store in East Lakeview, shortly after being detained…

CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago-born rapper Juice WRLD has died, after reportedly suffering a seizure early Sunday at Midway International Airport. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s office confirmed the death of the 21-year-old rapper, whose…

CHICAGO (CBS) — Right off the Dan Ryan Expressway, near 92nd Street, you’ll hear some sweet sounds: perhaps an aria or a violin concerto or a jazz riff. It all comes from talented students at a school that enriches its South Side…

(CNN) — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot pressed presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg to break his non-disclosure agreement with the elite consulting firm that once employed him, as the crowded 2020 Democratic race progresses toward the Iowa…

CHICAGO (CBS) — Hundreds of people who won wage claims against their employers in Illinois never got the money they were owed. CBS 2 Morning Insider Lauren Victory dug into a key area in the Illinois Department of Labor that just isn’t…

by Todd Feurer, CBS Chicago web producer CHICAGO (CBS) — Proposed settlements in four more lawsuits accusing police officers of misconduct will put taxpayers on the hook for nearly $3.5 million, including two wrongful death lawsuits on…

by Todd Feurer, CBS Chicago web producer CHICAGO (CBS) — Nearly 2 ½ years after the city’s last police contract expired, Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she understands officers are frustrated with the long wait for a new deal, but she bluntly…

by Todd Feurer, CBS Chicago web producer CHICAGO (CBS) — Seeking to allay fears people could be punished for smoking pot on their own porches or in their own yards even after recreational marijuana becomes legal in Illinois next year,…

CHICAGO (CBS) — JoAnn Cunningham, the mother of slain 5-year-old AJ Freund, has pleaded guilty to murder in her son’s brutal beating death, eight months after she and AJ’s father were charged. Cunningham pleaded guilty Thursday morning…

by Todd Feurer, CBS Chicago web producer CHICAGO (CBS) — Mayor Lori Lightfoot is defending her decision to remove former Police Supt. Eddie Johnson from his position as the city’s top cop before an inspector general’s investigation is…

CHICAGO (CBS) — Cook County prosecutors plan to seek a grand jury indictment against 29-year-old Bernard Kersh, the man charged with aggravated battery after police say he threatened and spit in the eye of an officer who body-slammed him…

CHICAGO (CBS) — A second officer has been relieved of police duties, as the Civilian Office of Police Accountability continues its investigation into video showing an officer slamming 29-year-old Bernard Kersh to the ground on…

CHICAGO (CBS) — Ernesto Godinez, the man who shot an ATF agent in the face in an ambush attack in the Back of the Yards neighborhood last year has been sentenced to nearly 17 years in federal prison. Godinez, 29, was convicted of assault…

by Todd Feurer, CBS Chicago web producer CHICAGO (CBS) — Feeling federal investigators breathing down their necks, Chicago aldermen on Wednesday gave preliminary approval to sweeping changes to the city’s lobbying rules, in the wake of a…

CHICAGO (CBS) — A Cook County judge has set a September trial date for singer R. Kelly, who is charged in four sexual assault and abuse cases in Chicago, but prosecutors have yet to decide which of the four cases will go to trial first.…

CHICAGO (CBS) — Armed robbers wearing ski masks kidnapped two people in Frankfort and New Lenox Township in the past three weeks, and went on shopping sprees with their money, police say. Investigators believe both cases are linked. The…

CHICAGO (CBS) — A second woman has come forward to say she was drugged and raped after visiting El Hefe nightclub, a week after another woman filed a lawsuit accusing the bar’s security guards of standing by as she was sexually assaulted…

CHICAGO (CBS) — With recreational marijuana becoming legal in Illinois in less than a month, city officials will hold two community meetings in Chicago this week to help answer any questions people might have about the new state law. The…

CHICAGO (CBS) — UpBeat Music and Arts will reopen on Monday, nearly two weeks after 15-year-old intern Rylan Wilder was accidentally shot by Des Plaines police officers chasing a bank robber. Rylan was interning at the music school in…

CHICAGO (CBS) — A Near North Side restaurant and nightclub is at the center of two sexual assault lawsuits. Last week, a 22-year-old woman accused staff and security guards at El Hefe Chicago of throwing her out into the alley behind the…