Maybe it's a sign of the tough economic times. Or maybe it's just the mark of a dirty lifestyle.

As millions of Illinois residents prepare to hit the roadways to visit family and friends this holiday season, Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) Secretary Milton R. Sees announced Saturday the agency suspend lane closures where possible over the Christmas holiday

A combination of alcohol, speed and poor road conditions have led to at least seven rollover accidents on highways in and around the city overnight.

As the Chicago area continues to clean up from Friday's blizzard, meteorologists Saturday are tracking a cold front that will bring frigid temperatures and bitter cold wind chill values.

A judge ordered Sunday that a South Side man accused of trying to kill a Chicago Police sergeant be held on a $100,000 cash bond.

A Chicago family is mourning a promising teenager stabbed to death Friday night in Rogers Park. CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot has more on the young life cut short and his final gift this holiday season.

The latest person asking President George Bush to commute the sentence of former Illinois Gov. George Ryan is Ryan's wife.

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald gave the midyear commencement address at Bradley University in central Illinois Saturday.

Over the last two weeks in American cycling USA Cycling announced the dates and locations of the majority of its 2009 national championships, the 13 American squads that will compete as UCI Continental teams in 2009 were announced, plans for

As his February 2009 court date approaches, Alec Zubarau, WB6X, of Palmdale, California, gets ready to battle his town after being ordered to dismantle his previously approved antenna system. The City of Palmdale has widened its opposition to Amateur Radio

Last week's sunspot group was only visible for three days, December 10-12. The average daily sunspot number for all of 2007 was 12.8; if we see no sunspots for the rest of 2008, the average for this year will be

This week's Surfin' looks back on radio and electronic history via vintage Radio Shack catalogs.

In Zimbabwe in southern Africa, in a country that has been suffering from political and economic chaos, a cholera outbreak has become a humanitarian crisis. More than a thousand people have died and tens of thousands are infected. OxFam, Doctors

A UN international criminal tribunal has sentenced the main organizer of the 1994 Rwandan genocide to life imprisonment. The court ruled that Col. Theoneste Bagosora was responsible for ordering the military to kill political opponents and ethnic rivals. More than

In what analysts are calling one of the worst episodes in American philanthropic history, scores of Jewish charities are thought to have lost hundreds of millions of dollars. Yeshiva University and the American Jewish Congress, among many others, had invested

President-elect Barack Obama has chosen two prominent ministers to pray during his inauguration. Civil rights leader and Methodist minister Joseph Lowery will deliver the benediction. Protestant evangelical megachurch pastor Rick Warren will deliver the opening prayer. The choice of Warren

Dr. ERICA BROWN (Jewish Federation of Greater Washington): In Israel today you'll find that most menorahs, or as they are called hanukiyot, are lit outside, because that's the way the commandment should be fulfilled. But because of persecution throughout Jewish

Read more of Lucky Severson's interview about interracial churches with Michael Emerson, Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Professor of Sociology and director of the Center on Race, Religion, and Urban Life at Rice University and the author of PEOPLE

media=208]KIM LAWTON: It's the season of Santa Claus, and it seems he's everywhere. Children anxiously await the arrival of Santa who is, of course, bearing gifts. But some Christians are worried that most of those children, and their parents as

media=212]LUCKY SEVERSON: If something seems odd or unusual about these worshippers, maybe it's the diversity, all the different colors and nationalities of their faces. This is the Wilcrest Baptist Church in Houston, and Pastor Rodney Woo couldn't be more proud