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Road closures were in place and anyone not shopping at a Chicago-area mall was urged to avoid certain areas as Black Friday shoppers made for heavy traffic in a western suburb. Read More

Jeramie Bizzle is a web producer for CBS Chicago. Jeramie began working with CBS Chicago as an intern in 2017 and returned as a full-time Web Producer in 2021. He has previously written for the Austin Weekly Newspaper, OakPark.com and Sportskeeda. Read More

Two separate shootings were reported on a Chicago expressway overnight.The first shooting happened just before 1:30 a.m. in the northbound lanes of I-57 near I-94.Illinois State Police said a vehicle ... Read More

An Illinois man faces charges in a drunken crash on Taft Street in Merrillville in January. Read More

It's the same night but a special start time for AEW Collision this Saturday. Instead of going head-to-head with WWE Survivor Series: WarGames, All Elite Wrestl ... Read More

CHICAGO (CBS) - Two shootings happened within an hour of each other overnight on Interstate 57, Illinois State Police said. The first shooting happened just before 1:30 a.m. in the northbound lanes at ... Read More

The Aurora Police Department is set to close some roads near the Chicago Premium Outlets mall on Friday to help with the flow of traffic into and out of the area due to the large number of ... Read More

A family is mourning just days before Thanksgiving after a man was shot and killed on I-80 near Chicago following a car crash. Authorities say Lenier Clayton, 30, was driving home from work when he ... Read More

Several suburban Chicago malls are set to open Friday, Nov. 29 -- known to many as Black Friday -- before the sun even rises. Read More

A man has been charged with murder in connection with a road rage crash and shooting that took place in a Chicago suburb just ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday this week. Read More

An ambulance was headed west on 35th Street with its lights and sirens activated, when it collided with an SUV that was headed north on Leavitt Street. Read More

A 25-year-old man was critically wounded inside of a vehicle overnight after a gun discharged while he was passing it to a 23-year-old woman in the Lakeview neighborhood, Chicago police said. Read More

For decades, there has been a shortage of air traffic controllers, and that continues this holiday season, along with concerns about safety and congestion. Read More

Marko Niketic, 17, was killed in a car crash last spring. An alleged drunken driver was speeding at more than 130 mph just before the crash, prosecutors have said. Read More

The officer herself, Tangie Brown, and the bar where she had been before the crash, were already named in the wrongful death lawsuit. Read More

A driver crashed into a 7-Eleven convenience store in on the Northwest Side Monday night, Chicago police said. Read More

Newly released bodycam footage shows Illinois Democrat Samantha Steele rolling her eyes and dropping the fact that she is an elected official as Chicago police officers place her under arrest for ... Read More

An alleged member of the Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua, who is believed to be involved in criminal acts in Chicago, was among those arrested in a sex trafficking investigation in ... Read More

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A man was killed in a shooting and rollover crash in the west suburbs on Friday morning, police said. Oak Park police arrived at the scene at Roosevelt and Ridgeland just after 7 a.m. Officers said ... Read More