CTA to provide free rides for Chicago area K-12 students on Monday, Aug. 21
The CTA is partnering with Butcher Boy Cooking Oils to provide the free rides for the students – along with an accompanying adult – on Monday, Aug. 21.
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The CTA is partnering with Butcher Boy Cooking Oils to provide the free rides for the students – along with an accompanying adult – on Monday, Aug. 21.
It's free to attend with giveaways and important information on the new school year.
Safe Passage workers will be tasked with safely getting kids to and from school. Now, some are honored for keeping their routes safe, some for over a decade. CBS 2's Marissa Perlman has more.
Students at Haugan Elementary, 4540 N. Hamlin Ave., will soon go from playing on barren, crumbling asphalt to a having a beautiful brand-new playground at their disposal.
In one major and quite visible improvement, students at Haugan Elementary will soon go from playing on barren, crumbling asphalt to a having a beautiful brand-new playground at their disposal. CBS 2's Tara Molina reports.
The district is providing them for kids who don't currently qualify for school bus service because of the driver shortage.
The district is providing them for kids who don't currently qualify for school bus service because of the driver shortage.
In part, Illinois' Faith's Law enforces the requirement for adults to speak up if they suspect sexual abuse.
Chicago Public Schools parents received an email from the district about a new law protecting child victims of sexual abuse.
Families have until Friday to complete the form to get those Ventra cards.
Starting at 1 p.m., backpacks will be given on a first-come, first-served basis.
The bashes feature music, food, games, and other activities, as well as giveaways of school supplies, all to get kids prepared to head back to the classroom.
Volunteers handed out school supplies, and answered questions to get everyone prepared for the new school year.
A center inside a school streamlines the process instead of trying to navigate different appointments with different departments.
A new center for migrants opens on Tuesday at a Chicago High School. Thousands of new arrivals have joined Chicago Public Schools in the past year, and the city said more children were coming this summer. CBS 2's Lauren Victory got a tour of the new center at Roberto Clemente Community Academy.
A new center for migrants opens on Tuesday at a Chicago High School. Thousands of new arrivals have joined Chicago Public Schools in the past year, and the city said more children were coming this summer. CBS 2's Lauren Victory got a tour of the new center at Roberto Clemente Community Academy.
Staff will be on hand to help parents enroll their children. Academic and health screenings will also be available for students.
The new school year begins in about a month for Chicago Public Schools students, and city leaders want to make sure everyone is starting out the year on the right foot.
The original agreement was set to expire at the end of this month.
The original agreement was set to expire at the end of this month.
Prosecutors said Romel Campoverde gave the 15-year-old girl alcohol before sexually assaulting her last month.
A Farragut High School security guard has been charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl he met at the school. Romel Campoverde, 43, was charged with criminal sexual assault, according to Chicago police and Cook County prosecutors.
The community groups say the disciplinary process is unfair for all but seems to single out Black CPS principals to be fired.
On Thursday, prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump joined with a number of community groups calling for an investigation into the disciplinary process for school principals.
Attorney Ben Crump will be in Chicago on Thursday to join the Chicago Principals Administrators Association in calling for an investigation into Chicago Public Schools' decision to fire several Black principals.
WWE professional wrestling is returning to the United Center next year with its Elimination Chamber event.
The CTA, Metra, and Pace have approved 2026 budgets without fare hikes or service cuts, thanks to the transit bailout approved by state lawmakers last month.
Illinois officials said people who rely on food stamps will begin receiving their full SNAP benefits for November within the next week now that the federal government shutdown is over.
Riverdale Mayor Lawrence Jackson has been convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice charges, accused of lying in a deposition in a lawsuit over the south suburban village's trash disposal contracts.
Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. has been diagnosed with progressive neurological disease progressive supranuclear palsy, or PSP. What is this rare disease?
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that TSA agents with "exemplary service" during the government shutdown will receive a $10,000 bonus check.
A group of transgender members of the U.S. Air Force and Space Force forced to leave active duty under the Trump administration's policies say their benefits were revoked in a rare move.
The City of Chicago is suing the Justice Department over restrictions on community policing hiring that the Johnson administration says are illegal. The city of St. Paul, Minnesota is also joining the federal lawsuit.
Members of the House from Illinois voted along party lines on the government funding package to end the shutdown.
Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh and five other people pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to federal charges accusing protesters of interfering with ICE agents in Broadview.
Why is one school in the west Chicago suburb of Lisle paying a water bill three times higher than another? The answer has to do with a private utility company.
The Food and Drug Administration is warning about additional cookware brands that could be leaching lead into your food.
Walgreens said it will close its office space in Chicago's Old Post Office building.
Insurance companies are increasingly using drones and aerial surveillance to snap photos of home, then reviewed by AI, to inform underwriting. That can cause mistakes, like the one that affected a homeowner in Kane County, Illinois.
Beginning Monday, homeowners in Cook County can apply for a chunk of $15 million as part of a property tax relief program.
SHFT Behavioral Health is the first urgent care clinic in Chicago for young people in mental health crises — specializing in children as young as 10 and adults up to the age of 30.
Chicago's Lurie Children's Hospital this week launched a new advanced leukemia program.
The Pink and Pearl Campaign held at Rush University Medical Center is designed to push a powerful message: that early detection for breast and lung cancer saves lives.
Doctors at Northwestern Memorial Hospital are the first in Illinois to offer a new treatment for atrial fibrillation, a heart condition that often strikes firefighters.
Three prominent Chicago hospitals are joining forces in the fight against breast cancer, through new clinical trials involving two drugs.
The former landlord of the now-long-shuttered Rainforest Café in River North is now facing a $9.3 million foreclosure lawsuit.
A new owner said Tuesday that he plans to reopen the venerable Gale Street Inn restaurant in Chicago's Jefferson Park neighborhood.
The popular Unabridged Bookstore in Chicago's East Lakeview community celebrated 45 years in business this weekend.
Chicago's Latino-owned breweries combine their culture with craft beer for a unique take. This Hispanic Heritage Month, CBS News Chicago visited a couple of them.
The Central Area Plan 2045 seeks to transform and invest in the downtown area.
The Tony Award-winning favorite "Hamilton" is returning to Chicago for a limited engagement.
Sally Kirkland was best known for sharing the screen with Paul Newman and Robert Redford in "The Sting" and her Oscar-nominated title role in the 1987 movie "Anna."
Major renovations at Chicago's Auditorium Theatre are expected to wrap by the fall of 2027, according to published reports.
Kendrick Lamar, Lady Gaga and Bad Bunny are among the artists with the most Grammy nominations this year.
The Fighting Illini marching band recently took up the challenge of performing the music of Metallica.
The CTA, Metra, and Pace have approved 2026 budgets without fare hikes or service cuts, thanks to the transit bailout approved by state lawmakers last month.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Thursday that TSA agents with "exemplary service" during the government shutdown will receive a $10,000 bonus check. President Trump said air traffic controllers who called out during the shutdown will have their pay docked.
Meteorologist Albert Ramon has the latest First Alert Weather forecast.
With the federal government shutdown over, Illinois officials said people who rely on food stamps will begin receiving their full SNAP benefits for November within the next week, and those payments couldn't come sooner for families who previously received only partial payments.
Now that she's been released from ICE custody, Chicago Rayito del Sol daycare teacher Diana Santillana Galeano still has legal hurdles to navigate.
Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. has been diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy, or PSP. What is this rare disease?
A federal judge toured the Broadview ICE processing facility on Thursday, amid a lawsuit alleging inhumane conditions for immigrants being detained inside the building.
A Chicago man who has a long criminal record of physically attacking random people has been charged with felonies for two random attacks in June.
A Chicago man has been charged with murder in the death of his 2-month-old son in April.
A daycare teacher has been released after being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Chicago's North Center neighborhood last week.
Why is one school in the west Chicago suburb of Lisle paying a water bill three times higher than another? The answer has to do with a private utility company.
A Chicago area couple logged into their retirement account only to find out it had been hacked, and a large chunk of their retirement savings was gone. The response from the online brokerage firm is only adding insult to injury.
The teacher detained by ICE agents at the Rayito del Sol daycare in North Center is believed to now be at the Broadview processing facility, and parents in the community now have serious safety concerns.
Lawyer Patrick Jaicomo said he expects a tidal wave of lawsuits nationwide against federal agents by U.S. citizens and non-citizens in communities impacted the most by federal agents over the last several months.
More than a decade after first raising alarms that the Chicago Fire Department wasn't properly tracking its response times, the city's top watchdog has issued a new report showing nothing has changed.
WWE professional wrestling is returning to the United Center next year with its Elimination Chamber event.
Defenseman Simon Nemec scored his third goal of the game at 3:28 of the overtime to lift the New Jersey Devils to a 4-3 win over the Chicago Blackhawks.
Paul Reed had 28 points and 13 rebounds and the undermanned Detroit Pistons won their eighth straight game, beating the Chicago Bulls 124-113 on Wednesday night.
The Bears are getting set for their first rematch of the season, facing a Vikings team that rallied to beat them in Week 1. Head coach Ben Johnson feels his team has taken big steps forward since his first game as a head coach.
Aptly named linebacker Battle Gideons, the man in the middle of the defense, is leading the charge for the University of Chicago Maroons as they are poised to play in the postseason for the first time in program history.
The FBI was asking for help Thursday in finding a man who robbed a bank in St. Charles, Illinois, west of Chicago this past weekend.
The City of Chicago is suing the Justice Department over restrictions on community policing hiring that the Johnson administration says are illegal. The city of St. Paul, Minnesota is also joining the federal lawsuit.
A Chicago man has been charged with murder in the death of his 2-month-old son in April.
A man is accused of killing a co-worker with a sledgehammer at a food and dairy processing facility in central Minnesota.
Chicago police are asking for help identifying the man who stabbed a CTA passenger on a Blue Line platform over the weekend on the Near West Side.
