A man has been cited for fatally striking an 11-year-old girl with his Jeep while she was walking near the river with her father in northwest suburban Des Plaines on Tuesday.
With a state budget crisis heating up in Illinois' dog days, the governor will have a hard time cooling off. The Executive Mansion's air conditioning system broke down this week.
The driver of a commercial delivery truck who was kidnapped Monday afternoon at gunpoint in Downers Grove was found in Joliet and his truck turned up Tuesday morning in Chicago.
Clarence Weber Jr. will be returned to Illinois later Wednesday to face murder charges in the death of his estranged wife in north suburban Lincolnshire.
Operation CeaseFire said Tuesday shootings are up in Chicago and will keep rising if the group's funding is again caught in the political crossfire in Springfield. But despite a large downtown rally, the governor isn't making any promises. CBS 2's
Unless money trees start sprouting on the state Capitol lawn, a quick budget solution from this week's special session seems unlikely. Gov. Rod Blagojevich says the budget lawmakers sent him last month has $2 billion more in spending than revenue.
President Bush on Wednesday hailed the move by G-8 leaders to coalesce behind a broad climate-change strategy, saying in a valedictory to summitry that "significant progress" has been made on global warming.
It's been a long journey home for an Illinois soldier. Patrick Madison of Mundelein was injured in Iraq, and is now coming home after spending a few months at Walter Reed Medical Center.
Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama pitched competing economic plans to Hispanics on Tuesday, the second time in as many weeks the presidential candidates directly appealed to this critical constituency.
President Bush defended a languishing deal his administrationnegotiated to sell India nuclear fuel and technology, saying hereassured India's prime minister that the pact was important for bothcountries despite heavy opposition on both sides.
The Bush administration says it has already cleared one in five detainees at Guantanamo Bay for release from the military-run facility in Cuba. The Justice Department told a federal judge Tuesday that it's trying to find a home for about
A drunk driver was apparently to blame for a skating tragedy that killed a Chicago teenager in Des Moines, Iowa. CBS 2's Dana Kozlov reports that early Monday morning, 17-year-old Marcus Harrington was on skates on a Des Moines sidewalk
