http://chicago.cbslocal.com CBSChicago.com - News, Sports, Weather, Traffic, and the Best of Chicago http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/05/24/senate-passes-ban-on-handheld-cell-phones-while-driving/?utm_medium=VPH&utm_source=topvph_news&utm_campaign=461216 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:51:14 +0000 The proposal says drivers must use hands-free devices or speakerphone features.]]> 127 461216 http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/05/24/three-stabbed-on-northwest-side/?utm_medium=VPH&utm_source=topvph_news&utm_campaign=461212 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:31:54 +0000 Three teenagers were stabbed in the Belmont Cragin area Thursday night on the Northwest Side.]]> 142 461212 http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/05/23/students-disciplined-in-sexting-incident-at-evanston-township-high/?utm_medium=VPH&utm_source=topvph_news&utm_campaign=461181 Fri, 24 May 2013 02:13:58 +0000 In a letter to parents dated Thursday, District 202 Supt. Eric Witherspoon wrote that girls sent inappropriate photos to members of the varsity baseball team. ]]> 265 461181 http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/05/23/cops-crack-down-on-retailers-who-sell-stolen-goods/?utm_medium=VPH&utm_source=topvph_news&utm_campaign=461152 Thu, 23 May 2013 23:26:40 +0000 A new law in Illinois is allowing police and retailers to work together to crack down on organized retail theft. CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli reports.]]> 117 461152 http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/05/23/breaking-jury-sides-with-donald-trump-in-condo-dispute-with-woman/?utm_medium=VPH&utm_source=topvph_news&utm_campaign=461070 Thu, 23 May 2013 19:31:48 +0000 A federal jury has sided with developer Donald Trump -- not the 87-year-old woman who says she was cheated financially after buying two condominiums at his Trump Tower project.]]> 1056 461070 http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/05/23/employee-at-dunbar-high-suspended-after-pushing-student-down-stairs/?utm_medium=VPH&utm_source=topvph_news&utm_campaign=461068 Thu, 23 May 2013 19:17:04 +0000 An employee at a public high school in the Bronzeville neighborhood has been taken off the job after being recorded on cell phone video pushing a girl down a set of stairs.]]> 408 461068 http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/05/23/concealed-carry-bill-moves-to-house-floor-but-senate-objects/?utm_medium=VPH&utm_source=topvph_news&utm_campaign=461064 Thu, 23 May 2013 18:43:52 +0000 A concealed-carry gun deal brokered by House Speaker Michael Madigan cleared a House committee Thursday, but its prospects were unclear across the Capitol in the Senate because of the way it would curb existing local gun laws.]]> 165 461064 http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/05/23/four-hurt-in-wrong-way-crash-on-chicago-skyway/?utm_medium=VPH&utm_source=topvph_news&utm_campaign=461062 Thu, 23 May 2013 18:18:23 +0000 A 25-year-old man has been cited for driving the wrong way on the Chicago Skyway, after a head-on crash with a pickup truck Thursday morning that sent four people to hospitals.]]> 232 461062 http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/05/23/student-pulled-over-and-robbed-by-phony-police-officer/?utm_medium=VPH&utm_source=topvph_news&utm_campaign=461038 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:58:45 +0000 A man driving an unmarked white Ford Crown Victoria with interior flashing red and blue lights pulled the student over near Ballard and Bender roads in Des Plaines as she was driving to school around 7:30 a.m. on May 20.]]> 340 461038 http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/05/23/census-data-chicago-slowest-growing-big-city-in-u-s/?utm_medium=VPH&utm_source=topvph_news&utm_campaign=460921 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:56:12 +0000 Chicago gained nearly 10,000 people from July 2011 to July 2012, but was the slowest-growing major city in the country according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Thursday.]]> 130 460921 http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/05/22/police-two-bodies-found-in-car-trunk-on-south-side/?utm_medium=VPH&utm_source=topvph_news&utm_campaign=460845 Wed, 22 May 2013 21:46:01 +0000 Two bodies were found inside a car on the South Side and one of the victims worked for Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown.]]> 218 460845 http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/05/22/the-list-chicago-schools-to-be-closed/?utm_medium=VPH&utm_source=topvph_news&utm_campaign=460766 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:14:03 +0000 The Chicago School Board voted to close 49 underutilized or underperforming elementary schools on Wednesday as part of a plan to close a $1 billion budget deficit.]]> 492 460766 http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/05/22/board-votes-to-close-49-chicago-elementary-schools/?utm_medium=VPH&utm_source=topvph_news&utm_campaign=460786 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:14:01 +0000 The Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday voted to close 49 elementary schools, in what is believed to be the biggest single mass shutdown of schools in U.S. history.]]> 4834 460786 http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/05/22/morton-west-high-school-on-lockdown/?utm_medium=VPH&utm_source=topvph_news&utm_campaign=460732 Wed, 22 May 2013 18:19:55 +0000 Morton West High School has been placed on lock down for precautionary reasons after an unknown individual entered the building.]]> 558 460732 http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/05/22/former-glenbard-east-student-charged-with-planning-violence-at-school/?utm_medium=VPH&utm_source=topvph_news&utm_campaign=460616 Wed, 22 May 2013 15:47:12 +0000 A 19-year-old former student at Glenbard East High School in Lombard was in custody on Wednesday, accused of planning a "Columbine-style" attack on the school, with a list of people he wanted to target.]]> 561 460616 http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/05/22/woman-robs-north-side-bank/?utm_medium=VPH&utm_source=topvph_news&utm_campaign=460573 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:45:12 +0000 A woman robbed a Lakeview bank Tuesday afternoon on the city’s North Side.]]> 262 460573 http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/05/22/four-schools-to-be-spared-from-closing-another-to-be-delayed/?utm_medium=VPH&utm_source=topvph_news&utm_campaign=460549 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:39:40 +0000 Hours before a final vote by the Chicago Board of Education, Chicago Public Schools officials have agreed to back off of plans to close four of the 53 elementary schools targeted for closing at the end of the school year, Board Vice President Jesse Ruiz confirmed Wednesday morning. ]]> 415 460549 http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/05/21/boy-17-fatally-shot-in-back-of-the-yards/?utm_medium=VPH&utm_source=topvph_news&utm_campaign=460525 Wed, 22 May 2013 01:35:00 +0000 A teenage boy was fatally shot in the South Side Back of the Yards neighborhood Tuesday evening, police said.]]> 147 460525 http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/05/21/police-man-killed-in-jump-from-gold-coast-building/?utm_medium=VPH&utm_source=topvph_news&utm_campaign=460521 Wed, 22 May 2013 01:28:08 +0000 A man jumped to his death early Tuesday from the Gold Coast high-rise building where he lived, authorities said.]]> 371 460521 http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/05/21/police-man-touches-womans-leg-at-south-loop-cta-station/?utm_medium=VPH&utm_source=topvph_news&utm_campaign=460504 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:30:25 +0000 Police are looking for man who inappropriately touched a woman at a South Loop CTA station Tuesday morning.]]> 147 460504