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1+ hour, 50+ min ago (711+ words) December 3, 2025 / 3:51 PM CST / AP A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to take a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of an immigrant rights group arguing that it is illegal for local jails to hold immigrant detainees at the request of federal authorities. The Wisconsin lawsuit comes as federal agents have launched high-profile immigration crackdowns in cities including Chicago and Charlotte, North Carolina. Another operation is expected in the coming days in Minnesota, targeting Somali immigrants. The enforcement tactics have been met with protests and lawsuits. A majority of justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court voted to take the ACLU case directly as an original action, rather than have it first work its way through lower courts. The court is controlled 4-3 by liberal justices. Four justices, who were not named, voted to accept the case,…...

1+ hour, 55+ min ago (154+ words) December 3, 2025 / 3:45 PM CST / CBS Chicago Workers at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry say they have approved their first-ever union labor contract. The union, which represents 120 MSI workers, said members voted overwhelmingly in support of the new contract after nearly two years of negotiations. The union said the deal includes increased pay and better benefits. Some of the mentions in the new contract include an immediate 8% pay increase for every union member, with wages for the lowest-paid workers being raised by 12%. Also, workers will get an annual 3% raise in each of the next two years and time-and-a-half pay for part-time employees." The vote comes just in time to avoid a planned strike that was intended to take place on Nov. 29." CBS News Chicago reached out to the museum for comment, but has not heard back yet....

2+ hour, 12+ min ago (1220+ words) December 3, 2025 / 3:29 PM CST / AP Two pregnant Black women nearly 1,000 miles apart were ready to do what many do every day: welcome new bundles of joy, and just before the start of the holiday season. Instead, the health of both women and their babies was put at risk after hospital staff did not immediately provide the needed care. One woman was discharged and delivered her baby on the side of an Indiana highway, while the other nearly gave birth in a Texas hospital's emergency waiting room. Both women survived, but are still reeling from ordeals that have drawn national attention " in part, because they were captured on video and shared on social media. Each instance highlights the long-standing and rising disparities in health outcomes for Black women, who die at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher than white women around the time…...

4+ hour, 38+ min ago (320+ words) December 3, 2025 / 1:03 PM CST / CBS Chicago A Chicago man has been arrested on federal charges, accused of convincing a 14-year-old girl in a Boston suburb to send him sexually explicit videos of herself on Snapchat. Joshua Rogers, 30, is charged with one count of sexual exploitation of children. Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts said he was arrested Wednesday morning in Chicago. His first court appearance in Boston has not yet been scheduled. According to the charges, in July, a 14-year-old girl's parents notified police in Brookline " a few miles west of Boston " that their daughter had been talking to a predator online, after they discovered sexually explicit videos on her on her Spapchat account. An investigation revealed the girl had been chatting with Rogers on Snapchat, and he had been posing as a 17-year-old boy named "John," who lived in Boston, and when…...

4+ hour, 40+ min ago (634+ words) December 3, 2025 / 1:00 PM CST / CBS News During some of the federal government's most recent high-profile immigration crackdowns in Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. " which the Trump administration has said are intended to target mainly unauthorized immigrants with criminal histories " most of the people detained had only civil immigration violations, new data shows." The data, released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and published by the Deportation Data Project on Monday, shows detentions of people without criminal records spiked in recent months in those cities. From early September, when the Chicago operation began, to mid-October, average daily book-ins to temporary detention facilities in Chicago or nearby Broadview increased from about three people a day without criminal records to more than 45, a jump of more than 1,400%. Fewer than 25 people with criminal charges or convictions were detained per day on average by mid-October, the data…...

5+ hour, 32+ min ago (13+ words) Meteorologist David Yeomans has the extended forecast. More snow in Chicago on Wednesday...

5+ hour, 47+ min ago (191+ words) December 3, 2025 / 11:53 AM CST / CBS Chicago Traffic at O'Hare International Airport is growing faster than expected, and this has Chicago city leaders wanting to make big changes to future construction plans at the airport. In a new bond statement, the city said it is negotiating with airlines about changing the order in which new terminals are built. The $8.5 billion plan to revamp O'Hare dates back to Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration. In 2019, Emanuel picked architect Jeanne Gang's team to design a new $2.2 billion Global Terminal, which would replace the existing Terminal 2. The plan calls for the global terminal to be completed by 2033. But the city now says it cannot afford to close Terminal 2 while the new global terminal is being built. As part of the expansion project in August of this year, ground was broken for a new satellite concourse, which will…...

5+ hour, 52+ min ago (38+ words) Traffic at O'Hare International Airport is growing faster than expected, and this has Chicago city leaders wanting to make big changes to future construction plans at the airport. City seeks to change construction plans at O'Hare International Airport...

6+ hour, 9+ min ago (157+ words) December 3, 2025 / 11:32 AM CST / CBS Chicago Starting Wednesday, riders on the Chicago Transit Authority system will hear a recognizable Chicago voice during their commutes. Chicago's own Chance the Rapper teamed up with the CTA for new station announcements. In one announcement, Chance talks about getting on the Red Line at 79th Street and the Dan Ryan Expressway almost every day when he was growing up. "I won't ever stop loving the CTA, and I encourage you to keep supporting public transit and its workers," Chance says in the announcement. "Be safe, and just enjoy the ride." In the other announcement, Chance says the CTA is the best travel option for Chicagoans, whether they live on the South, West, or North Side. The CTA also hosted Chance for a podcast with CTA Acting President Nora Leerhsen, talking with him about the new partnership…...

6+ hour, 17+ min ago (153+ words) December 3, 2025 / 11:23 AM CST / CBS Chicago U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) is pressing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers regarding the arrests of U.S. citizens during federal immigration operations in Illinois and across the country. In a six-page letter, Durbin criticized a recent statement from Noem in which she falsely claimed that no U.S. citizens have been caught up in the Trump administration's immigration raids. Durbin went on to cite specific examples of citizens being roughed up and detained during Operation Midway Blitz in the Chicago area. In September, ICE agents federal agents raided a South Shore apartment building in the middle of the night, detaining several people, including U.S. citizens. Two U.S. citizens also were among seven people detained in an ICE raid in September in Elgin. Durbin pointed to several other examples of citizens caught up in immigration enforcement operations....