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CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago police are searching for a driver who hit two people and kept going near Archer and Halsted Saturday evening. One man, who asked not to be identified, saw the end of the crime. “I seen somebody running saying,…

CHICAGO (CBS) — More than 20 shots were fired into a far South Side home where several children, including a 12-year-old girl, were inside. Lakiya Charleston was shot twice while sleeping on the couch. She was undergoing surgery at…

CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago police seized 60 guns from a West Side home Thursday night. Police were questioning two men Friday morning as to why they had so many weapons. Neighbors said the raid happened just after 10 p.m. in one of the…

CHICAGO (CBS) — Cook County prosecutors are proceeding with sexual abuse cases against R. Kelly despite federal charges the R&B superstar is facing. Prosecutors are asking for an increase in Kelly’s bond, but in court Thursday…

CHICAGO (CBS) — A high-speed chase that began in the northern suburbs ended in Chicago’s West Loop early Tuesday morning with five teens in custody and another dead after a related attempted car theft, according to the Lake County…

CHICAGO (CBS) — The FBI is asking for help locating a person of interest in the case of missing Gary, Indiana, woman Sidney-Nichole Buchanan. James McGhee, 38, of Gary, Indiana, is wanted for questioning in the death of 27-year-old…

CHICAGO (CBS) — When you work remotely like Saavedra Lewis, life happens on your own time. After a long week, the best time is probably five o’clock. “Conference calls are done. Emails are done. I’m just sitting there like, ‘This is…

CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago prides itself on being a commuter city with an easy-to-navigate grid, but the Morning Insiders found for one man it’s a tricky trip because the front of his home is more like an obstacle course. CBS 2’s Vince…

CHICAGO (CBS) — A Sunday shooting at a barbecue in Humboldt Park that wounded several people including an 8-year-old was just one of 38 incidents across the city over the weekend from Friday to Sunday. Abrianna Barron, 8, was grazed…

CHICAGO (CBS) — Former Chicago Tribune writer Melissa Isaacson covered the Bulls championship runs and the Cubs for over two decades. She is well-known voice on the Chicago sports scene. Now she is telling another story – a more personal…

CHICAGO (CBS) — Last year Peter Mendez tearfully told his story of police wrongly raiding his home and pointing guns at him and his family. Now he is thrilled because Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Peter Mendez Act this week. It’s a new law…

CHICAGO (CBS) — Two women were hit when an SUV crashed into bus shelter in Washington Park Saturday evening. The crash, which involved a Ford Explorer, happened at 61st and King Drive around 7:15 p.m., police said. The two 60-year-old…

CHICAGO (CBS) — An early morning shooting in River North Saturday led to a police investigation. It’s part of a growing number in the district. Just before 5 a.m. shots were fired at a group of people near Franklin and Huron, a…

CHICAGO (CBS) — With anger over the idea of separating families weighing heavily on their hearts, dozens of people met in Pilsen Saturday afternoon to come up with a response to the threat of ICE raids. Men, women and children alike…

CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th) sounded the alarm about an ICE sighting in his ward Thursday, but enforcement action never happened. Sigcho-Lopez went as far as putting out a warning on Twitter that read “Our…

CHICAGO (CBS) — Two balloons with “welcome home” printed on them could be seen outside the Blagojevich house Friday night, but it’s not what it seems. The balloons were possibly put there by a neighbor, not the ex-governor’s family.…

CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago Ald. Brian Lopez (25th) sounded the alarm about an ICE raid in his ward Thursday, but the raid never actually happened. The warning seemed legitimate. Lopez even went as far as putting out a warning on Twitter…

CHICAGO (CBS) — A young boy is severely burned after a fire that ripped through his family’s West Pullman apartment Friday, and that building had a long list of code violations. It’s unclear if the preteen boy is going to make it.…

CHICAGO (CBS) — Former junior high basketball coach Cara Labus is charged with molesting former students. Her case, back in court Monday, keeps dragging. For her alleged victims, so has the pain. They claim school officials failed to…

CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications is preparing for a busy weekend including large events such as the Bud Billiken Parade, Northalsted Market Days and the Backstreet Boys concert at the United…

CHICAGO (CBS) — Sources tell CBS 2’s Brad Edwards that Adam Bramwell, a person of interest in the brutal July 18 knife attack on a recent DePaul University graduate, is now in custody in Texas. Bramwell was recently paroled from prison.…

CHICAGO (CBS) — Two baby penguins at Shedd Aquarium need names! The Shedd’s two baby Magellanic penguin chicks hatched in May and are both females, according to a test done on their eggshells. Both eggs were laid by the same pair of…

CHICAGO (CBS) — Charges have been issued in the death of a 25-year-old Northwestern doctoral student, who was fatally shot just hours after moving to Chicago in September. Diante Speed, 20, of Chicago, has been charged with one count of…

CHICAGO (CBS) — The defendants accused of brutally killing 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa in April were indicted Tuesday on first degree murder charges for Ochoa’s baby, Yovanny Lopez, who died in June nearly two months after they allegedly…