Updated on: October 27, 2026 / 10:18 PM CDT / CBS Chicago The family and friends of a 33-year-old Bridgeview father, who has autism, are demanding answers after he was found shot and killed in a driveway a month ago. With the family still looking…
October 27, 2026 / 5:24 PM CDT / CBS Chicago An Illinois State University student was sexually assaulted in a dormitory early Tuesday morning. University police said the attack happened around 1 a.m. in the lower-level service area of Watterson Towers in Normal, Illinois. Someone wearing a…
From every 911 call to every arrest and trial: protection order violations are at an all time high in Chicago, and the system designed to protect domestic violence victims is failing them at every turn. By Elliott Ramos, Michele Youngerman and…
October 24, 2026 / 1:39 PM CDT / CBS Chicago A man is facing multiple charges after police said he allegedly killed one woman and sexually assaulted another on the city's South Side earlier this week. Jerry Powe, 58, of Chicago, was arrested and charged with…
January 21, 2026 / 11:11 PM CST / CBS Chicago Joliet Police body-worn camera video shows an officer patting down a child. The 12-year-old was a passenger in a vehicle pulled over for not having lights on. Now, that young girl's mother is suing the…
October 22, 2026 / 3:28 PM CDT / CBS Chicago A Chicago man has been sentenced to more than 20 years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to convincing a 14-year-old girl in Massachusetts to send him sexually explicit videos of herself on Snapchat. Joshua…
October 19, 2026 / 2:58 PM CDT / CBS Chicago The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a lawsuit challenging a Chicago ordinance allowing the city to seize a car owner's vehicles over unpaid parking tickets, even other cars not involved in any…
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October 9, 2026 / 11:18 AM CDT / CBS Chicago A man was arrested after over 50,000 AI-generated child sexual abuse images were recovered from a home in unincorporated Antioch. The Lake County Sheriff's Office conducted an investigation in the 41100 block of North Lincoln Avenue and…
October 8, 2026 / 5:10 PM CDT / CBS Chicago A man has been charged in five video gambling burglaries in the south suburbs as investigators try to determine if he's also connected to over a dozen more. Oak Lawn police said 22-year-old Sincere Lanier…
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