Cook County, IL

CHICAGO - Three suspects are in custody after carjacking a woman, crashing the vehicle on Lake Shore Drive and then fleeing on foot. At about 5:45 p.m. Monday, three male offenders approached a 40-year-old woman in the area of Fullerton and Clark, pulled her out of her Audi Q5 and took her vehicle, police said.

Riverside police arrested a 34-year-old Munster, Indiana, man who was later charged with felony unlawful use of a weapon after police found a loaded .762-caliber semiautomatic rifle along with a drum magazine for the rifle loaded with 70 rounds and three loaded handgun magazines inside his pickup truck during a routine traffic stop on June 23 at about 3:25 p.m. on Ogden Avenue.

CHICAGO — Three children have now died following a fire in West Humboldt Park over the weekend. On Sunday, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office identified 4-year-old Axel Cruz as the victim of a fire that broke out in a home in the 4000 block of West Potomac Avenue around midnight on Chicago’s West Side. […]

Illinois voters headed to the polls Tuesday for the primary election to choose, among other candidates, the Republican candidate for governor.

The woman who expressed outrage over the construction of an apartment building next door to her home in downtown Brookfield and later sued the developer, her home’s former owners and their real estate agent has sold that home – for a profit. Cook County property records show that...

Three suspects are in custody after carjacking a woman, crashing the vehicle on Lake Shore Drive and then fleeing on foot.

The mother of a boy who has severe brain damage after his delivery at a south suburban hospital was awarded $20 million by a Cook County jury. They found staff at Advocate Christ Hospital missed signs of danger during a 2014 delivery.

Two more children have died from the West Humboldt Park basement fire this weekend, raising the total death toll to three.

Three children have died and another remains in critical condition following a basement fire in West Humboldt Park early Sunday, according to officials. Two more boys, 6 and 11, were hospitalized initially in critical condition but later died.

The 6th District Councilman Dwight Williams has formed a partnership between the Northwest Indiana Food Bank and the 6th District. On July 1, 2022, the partnership will host a food distribution in the front parking lot of the Glen Park Elementary School at 5002 Madison St. The event will feed 150 to 160 households, and this is a first come first served community-based event so participants are encouraged to be prompt. The distribution will be held from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Election Day for the 2022 Illinois Primary is officially here -- and polls open at 6 a.m. Though thousands in the state have already cast their ballots through early voting and mail, thousands more are expected to take part in the tradition of voting in-person on Election Day. If that's...

Six suburban Cook County polling places will stay open for an extra hour after they opened late on Election Day, officials announced Tuesday. The Cook County Clerk's office said the half-dozen locations will remain open until 8 p.m., though the remaining 1,424 suburban locations in the county will still close at 7 p.m.

Illinois' 2022 primary election is here, and thousands of residents are casting their ballots in several major contests, including the race for governor and secretary of state. If you want to track election results as they roll in from around the state, you can find the latest vote totals on...

CHICAGO - Six suburban polling places will stay open an hour late Tuesday evening, the Cook County Clerk’s Office announced. The voting sites received a court order to stay open until 8 p.m. due to late openings, the clerk’s office said. The sites that are staying open late...

NOTE: To track live results as they come in after the polls close, click here. Voters across Illinois are out at the polls for the 2022 primary election, but if you haven't voted yet, how long do you have?. The polls opened at 6 a.m. statewide, and will stay open...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The Illinois primary is coming up Tuesday, and early voting numbers ahead of that date were down in Chicago. But as CBS 2's Tara Molina reported, that has not been the case everywhere. Early voting was set to wrap up at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Polling places will be open for primary day from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Our cameras rolled Monday afternoon as some of the last early ballots were cast in the Near North Chicago Public Library, 310 W. Division St., where the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners said 770 people chose...

In the race for Illinois' 7th Congressional District, longtime incumbent Danny Davis has been endorsed by President Joe Biden in what could be a tough race, especially from Kina Collins, who is one of two Democratic challengers.

Under Cook County’s Solar Schools Grant program, the Cook County Department of Environment and Sustainability awarded grant funding to 24 public schools to support the construction of small photovoltaic (PV) systems used to educate students first-hand how sunlight is converted into electricity. The County’s program provides supplemental funding to...

Thousands are expected to descend on the polls today to take part in Election Day voting for the 2022 Illinois Primary across the state and the Chicago-area. If that's the case for you, make sure you know where your designated polling place is, as early voting sites are often not the same sites where Election Day voting takes place.