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CBS News - 12/02/2025 05:38:26 PM. A few days ago, a tragic incident occurred at a CTA Blue Line station in Forest Park, Chicago. A man named Tommie O. Carter was charged with attempted murder and aggravated battery for allegedly punching a senior citizen onto the tracks. The victim narrowly escaped being hit by a...

Mayor Brandon Johnson last year decommissioned the city’s Shotspotter gunshot detection system saying it was no more than a “walkie talkie on a stick.”. On Nov. 6, after pressure from aldermen during budget hearings to add a promised financial allocation for another gunshot detection system, $5 million was listed in...

A former Cook County judge was sentenced to probation on Friday after stealing large sums of money from an elderly friend who served as a Tuskegee Airman. Patricia Martin, 66, received four years probation after pleading guilty to theft ranging from $100,000 to $500,000, according to court documents. The judge also...

Blase Cardinal Cupich visited the Cook County Jail on Sunday to observe the Jubilee of Prisoners.

Quadajah Johnson, 31, of the 9200 block of W. Senate Drive in Des Plaines, Illinois, faces first-degree murder charges in the death of a 31-year-old woman. According to a news release from the Chicago Police Department, the arrest occurred on December 3, 2025, following an investigation into the September 8 incident.

Although the average time Americans spend in traffic rose by 6 hours nationwide in 2025, New York City saw a significant decline in traffic thanks to the congestion pricing program that went into effect in January. As Kristin Toussant explains in Fast Company, just one month after the program began,...

Two Illinois residents were arrested on Friday and will be charged with desecration of a corpse, after police say investigators found the remains of a prematurely born baby buried in a beer box at a suburban Chicago property. Nicole Pokrzywa, 36, of Wilmington, and William Cosmen, 38, of Manhattan, both made...

Chicago firefighters were called to a two-alarm building fire near an elementary school and O'Hare Airport on the city's Northwest Side Friday afternoon.

On December 4, 2025, Marquis Terry, 21, was arrested and charged with several felonies after a series of robberies in Chicago. The charges include aggravated kidnapping, armed robbery, and aggravated battery. These charges relate to four incidents that took place early on November 19, 2025. The Chicago Police...

Antwan Ford, 27, from Ford Heights, faces multiple felony charges after he was identified as the individual who struck and seriously injured a Cook County Fugitive Task Force member, the Chicago Police Department reported. The incident occurred on December 2, during an attempt by the task force to apprehend Ford on...