Now that Labor Day is over, 409,000 students in the regular track program are headed back to Chicago Public Schools on Tuesday for the new year. Many parents are optimistic about their kids' future in the classroom, but worried about the dangers of the streets. CBS 2's Mike Parker reports 

If there is any place President Obama is going to get the benefit of the doubt, it's here in his hometown. Yet public opinion polls show that even here, confidence has slipped. Though they're a bit hesitant to talk about it.

Labor Day is the official end to summer and the unofficial kickoff to campaign season. In the race for governor, jobs are the top issue. People want the next Governor of Illinois to create them and restore hope. CBS 2's Dana Kozlov reports on two candidates for the job and what they want to do.

Latino war veterans say they're outraged about student art work on a veterans' memorial in the Little Village neighborhood. And they want someone prosecuted.

A 14-year-old north suburban honor roll student who never missed class is dead: the victim of gunfire during a party. CBS 2's Mai Martinez reports with more on the search for her killer.

The Chicago White Sox keep finding ways to win. A.J. Pierzynski hit a go-ahead single in the 10th inning and finished with three RBIs on Monday, and Chicago beat the Detroit Tigers 5-4 for their seventh straight win.

Cubs catcher Geovany Soto showed his toughness and power, all in one day. Soto withstood a collision at the plate to prevent a run from scoring, then hit a tiebreaking homer in the eighth inning to lift Chicago over the Houston Astros 5-4 on Monday.

For a lot of people, this Labor Day was a lot less about grilling burgers, and a lot more about feeding the economy and keeping organized labor strong.

A 42,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth that has been on display at Chicago's Field Museum since March is getting ready to make her way to New Jersey.

A man found kneeling over his girlfriend's body early Saturday on the South Side has been charged with her murder, police said.

Craigslist appears to have surrendered in a legal fight over erotic ads posted on its website, shutting down its adult services section Saturday and replacing it with a black bar that simply says "censored."

Imagine heading to a Catholic school on a Saturday morning, thinking it's one of the safest places to be. But this Saturday, a Catholic school in Burbank was a crime scene, crawling with SWAT team members and police investigators after a school volunteer was attacked by a masked gunman.

A man standing on the corner and a convenience store employee were wounded during a Saturday morning shooting in the Roseland neighborhood.

No matter what uniform Manny Ramirez wears to Fenway Park, he keeps on hitting. The slugger the Chicago White Sox hope will help them to the playoffs singled twice in a 3-1 win over the Boston Red Sox in the opener of a day-night doubleheader Saturday. In June, Ramirez returned to his former stadium with the Los Angeles Dodgers and went 5 for 12 with a solo homer in a three-game series.

Carlos Zambrano was yelling and pumping his arms, looking as if he might go into another full-fledged meltdown.Instead, he kept his composure. He also kept a good run going. Zambrano passed Kerry Wood on the Cubs' strikeouts list, Starlin Castro became the club's first rookie in 66 years with six straight multi-hit games and Chicago beat the New York Mets 5-3 on Saturday.

After stumbling for a half, Missouri distanced itself from a distressing preseason. Blaine Gabbert rallied the Tigers from a 10-point deficit with two touchdown passes and Carl Gettis made a leaping one-handed interception and downed a punt at the 1 in the fourth quarter of a 23-13 opening victory over Illinois on Saturday.

A man charged in the Tuesday slaying of a CPS student near his Garfield Park home was ordered held without bond Saturday.

With his dreadlocks still flowing, Manny Ramirez ran to first base with a single on his first at-bat Saturday in his return to Fenway Park. The slugger's opposite-field hit in the second inning set up the first run of the game against the Boston Red Sox, the team he starred for and mystified with his antics for 7 1/2 seasons.

Police were searching Saturday afternoon for a 26-year-old Chicago man missing and believed drowned in Lake Michigan near St. Joseph, Michigan, on Friday.

The motorist who caused a three-vehicle wreck early Saturday on the Northwest Side that sent nine people to hospitals is expected to be charged with negligent driving.