Chicago IL

CBS News layoffs will disrupt a key national news pipeline for Chicago's top-rated all-news station, WBBM Newsradio. The big picture: CBS News laid off 6% of its staff on Friday to cut costs. The cuts include shutting down CBS News Radio, which began broadcasting in 1927 and offered national newscasts to over 700...

A South Side mother returned home to find three strangers inside her apartment, including one in her bed; two suspects were arrested for trespassing. The victim says prior break-in signs were ignored, raising concerns about building security and management response. Traumatized by the incident, she is relocating with...

Metra officials have announced a pilot program that will explore a dramatic change to the way fares are collected on its trains.

Cook County officials are warning residents to be weary of a circulating text message scam that falsely claims to require payment for unpaid charges. Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County Mariyana Spyropoulos said a scam text "designed to look like a notice of a hearing for a traffic violation and directs...

Certain surnames are synonymous with Chicago dining: Bayless, Trotter, Nahabedian. I'd add the Bannos family to that list. For the last four decades, they've run two of my favorite and most successful restaurants in Chicago: Jimmy Bannos was the face behind the Creole restaurant Heaven on Seven, and his son Jimmy...

DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Lombard Chief of Police Joe Grage announced that Judge Leah Bendik granted the State’s motion to deny pre-trial release for a Lombard man accused of hate crime following an incident at a Lombard bakery last Friday night. Justin Ward, 34 (d.o.b. 3/17/1991) of the 2300...

Federal drug agents say a frightening wave of overdoses in Cook County is being driven by bogus Xanax bars that are anything but mellow. The DEA has linked a recent cluster of cases to counterfeit pills that look like familiar anti-anxiety medication but actually contain unpredictable synthetic drugs. Dozens of...

Several new stores, restaurants and entertainment experiences will soon open at Woodfield Mall in suburban Schaumburg, including the second Chicago-area location of a popular European brand. Leading international fashion brand Mango will open at the mall this spring, according to an announcement. The highly...

Chicago police say an officer was relieved of police powers after a fatal Humboldt Park shooting. COPA is investigating the March 9 incident that left 42-year-old Derek Jordan dead.

A man was critically injured in a shooting in Chicago's Austin neighborhood on Thursday night.