Mike Quade got his first major league win, and so did Casey Coleman. The post-Piniella Chicago Cubs are off to quite a start. Coleman, a rookie right-hander, took a one-hitter into the seventh inning, and Cubs interim manager Quade had a successful debut Monday night in a 9-1 victory over the Washington Nationals.

Veteran quarterback Todd Collins made no pretenses about his ambitions after signing a one-year contract Monday with the Chicago Bears.

Retired slugger Sammy Sosa is upset with the Chicago Cubs for not retiring his No. 21 jersey, telling a magazine that the organization doesn't care about him.

Five states are asking a federal judge in Chicago to take emergency action to close two shipping locks and install barriers to prevent Asian carp from overrunning the Great Lakes via a "carp highway."

What started with Chicago Police officers trying to make a traffic stop ended with gunfire on the city's South Side. One suspect was fatally shot by police, while three officers were injured in the altercation. CBS 2's Dana Kozlov reports it's the 10th police-involved, fatal shooting in the city so far this year.

For the second time in a month, an alligator has been spotted along the North Branch of the Chicago River.

The search continues for two teenage boys who went swimming in dangerous rip currents in Lake Michigan and were swept out of sight. A 14-year-old boy went into the water with his father, his brother and a 17-year-old friend Sunday afternoon at the beach in Michigan City, Ind. That's when two of the boys disappeared. CBS 2's Mai Martinez reports.

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It was a heartbreaking crime: the shooting death of a 15-year-old honor student in the south suburbs. It happened last May, and now finally there is an arrest.

A 4-year-old girl was hospitalized Saturday after firefighters rescued her from a burning home in the South Side West Englewood neighborhood.

Jay Mariotti has been loved and hated in Chicago and on ESPN for decades for his fierce opinions on the world of sports. But Saturday, the former Chicago Sun-Times columnist ran afoul of the law for allegedly letting his temper boil over off the air.

It sounds like the start to a bad joke; Captain Kirk, Batman, the Bionic Woman and Rod Blagojevich. They were among the stars at this year's Wizard World Chicago Comic Con. Blagojevich signed autographs and posed for pictures after talking one-on-one with CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot.

Bond was denied on Saturday to a man charged with fatally shooting a man in the head on Aug. 9 on the West Side as part of an ongoing gang dispute. The victim, who was shot as he was driving a car in the Austin neighborhood, died the next day.

A Roseland neighborhood man was denied bond after being charged in the Aug. 9 slaying of a 17-year-old man on the Far South Side.

Two teens were killed when a car being pursued by police from Calumet City crashed into a pole near a Far South Side McDonald's early Friday. All five people inside the car were ejected. Police are seeking reckless homicide charges against the driver.