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Woman Robs North Side Bank
A woman robbed a Lakeview bank Tuesday afternoon on the city’s North Side.
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Four Schools To Be Spared From Closing; Another To Be Delayed
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.
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Boy, 17, Fatally Shot In Back Of The Yards
A teenage boy was fatally shot in the South Side Back of the Yards neighborhood Tuesday evening, police said.
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CDOT crews patch potholes in a city street. (CBS)

New Apps Allow Drivers To Track Potholes

Chicago filled 350,000 potholes last year and this year could be a bumper crop, or bumpy crop, created by cold freezing nights and mild melting days.

2013/02/13

New App Allows Chicago Residents To Utilize 311 Service

The Chicago Works App: Does it work? Can you fix problems with a few clicks on a phone?

2013/02/12

The Chicago Auto Show opens Saturday at 10 a.m. (Credit: CBS)

Ed’s Driveway: Chicago Auto Show

Did you know Chicago hosts the nation’s largest and longest running auto show?

2013/02/09

Ed’s Driveway: Ford Taurus

hen it comes to mid-sized sedans, the Ford Taurus has been a well-known name for years and it’s a car built in Chicago!

2013/02/02

Siri Co-Developer From Chicago Talks Future Of Computers

We know her name – Siri – and we know her voice, but few of us know that one of her co-developers is a Chicagoan.

CBS 2–2013/01/09

An electric truck manufactured by Smith Electric. (Credit CBS)

Electric Truck Firm To Bring Jobs To Chicago

Electric vehicle manufacturer to benefit from voucher program.

2012/11/28

Approximately 50,000 students at Chicago Public Schools, including these first graders, use iPads in some of their daily lessons. (Credit: CBS)

Does Using An iPad Hinder Kids’ Other Basic Skills?

There are more than 28,000 iPads being used in Chicago Public Schools, and some of the students who use them each day are as young as three years old. Is all that screen time good for toddlers, and their little hands? CBS 2’s Chris Martinez went to a Chicago classroom to find out.

CBS 2–2012/11/07

Sandy Knocks Out Email Service For Many People, Businesses

If your email’s been down since Hurricane Sandy hit on Monday night, you might be waiting quite some time before it’s up and running again.

WBBM Newsradio–2012/10/31

Text Messaging System Helps Diabetics Keep In Touch With Doctors

For diabetics, watching your diet, checking blood sugar levels, and taking medications requires a lot of focus and effort.

CBS 2–2012/10/18

Chicago Area Voters Can Use Smartphones To Prepare For Election

Both the Cook County Clerk and the Chicago Board of Elections have redesigned their websites so voters can prepare for the election with their smartphones.

2012/10/03

Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks to engineering and computer science students at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Oct. 2, 2012. The mayor was recruiting students to work in Chicago after they graduate. (Credit: CBS)

Mayor Recruits Engineering Students At UIUC To Boost City’s Tech Ranks

Could Chicago become the Silicon Valley of the Midwest? If Mayor Rahm Emanuel gets his way, it’s a very real possibility.

CBS 2–2012/10/02

Wireless Internet Access Coming To Chicago Parks

Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to make Chicago one of the digital capitals of the country.

2012/09/24

Long-Awaited iPhone 5 Officially Goes On Sale

The long-awaited iPhone 5 officially goes on sale Friday, and retailers are hoping they’ll have enough in stock to meet the demand.

CBS Chicago–2012/09/21

CNET’s iPhone 5 Review: Finally The iPhone We’ve Always Wanted

Apple’s iPhone 5 launched to massive fanfare on Sept. 12, and now the verdict is in from CNET’s Scott Stein. He found that the new iPhone offers key features that were desired by users when its predecessor, the iPhone 4S, shipped.

2012/09/18

Zoomed-in image from the Dark Energy Camera of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365, in the Fornax cluster of galaxies, which lies about 60 million light years from Earth. (Credit: Dark Energy Survey Collaboration)

New Fermilab Camera Helping Look Into Ancient Universe

A powerful new camera built in the Chicago area by Fermilab is turning out pictures that look billions of years into the universe’s past.

2012/09/17

City Treasurer Using Texting To Talk To Teens About Finances

Buying a car? Opening a savings account? Want to know about student loans? There’s someone waiting to help you at the Chicago city Treasurer’s office.

WBBM Newsradio–2012/08/17

Chicago Tourism App Unveiled For iPhone, Android

If you’re looking for something to do or somewhere special to stay in our fair city, it just so happens that there’s an app for that.

WBBM Newsradio–2012/08/16

A general view at the Motorola booth at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center January 10, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, the world's largest annual consumer technology trade show, runs through January 13 and is expected to feature 2,700 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services to about 140,000 attendees. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images)

Motorola Mobility To Cut 20 Percent Of Its Workforce Worldwide

As many as 4,000 employees around the world are about to lose their jobs with Illinois-based Motorola Mobility.

WBBM Newsradio–2012/08/13

An office building at 300 W. Adams St. is home to three companies -- Vibes Media, Ifbyphone, and Emmi Solutions -- that plan to hire a combined 150 to 200 new employees in the next 18 months. (Credit: CBS)

Emanuel Touts More Tech Jobs For Chicago

Mayor Rahm Emanuel was touting more new high-tech jobs coming to Chicago, helping create what he calls a “high-tech hub.”

CBS Chicago–2012/08/08

Motorola To Shift 3,000 Jobs From Suburb To Chicago’s Merchandise Mart

Google will move its Motorola cell phone unit from suburban Libertyville to Chicago’s Merchandise Mart next summer.

CBS Chicago–2012/07/26

Steve Jobs, co-founder and interim CEO of Apple Co

Remembering Steve Jobs Through The Years

Steve Jobs, figurehead of Apple, dies. Take a look at him through the years!

Motorcycle Transformed Into Solar-Powered Bike

Tony Coiro sits atop a solar powered motorcycle he constructed. Coiro converted a 1978 Suzuki GS 550 into a solar-powered bike.

Meet The New iPhone 4

People test a Kindle 2 after a press conference unveiling latest version of Amazon's popular electronic reader, the Kindle, in New York on Feb. 9, 2009. (Photo by Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images)

E-Books Leaving Printed Word Behind?

Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Sony — the list goes on and on when it comes to the number of companies cranking out digital readers.

Dubai's Burj Khalifa tower, the world's tallest skyscraper, is lit by laser lights during its opening ceremony in the Gulf emirate on Jan. 4, 2010. (Photo by Karim Sahib/AFP/Getty Images)

A Look At The World’s Tallest Skyscraper

Dubai is home to the world’s tallest skyscraper. Here’s a look at the Burj Khalifa tower.

A receptionist robot, produced by Japan’s robot maker Kokoro smiles during a demonstration at the International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2009. (credit: Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images)

Japanese Robot Craze

In 2010, Japanese robotics makers are creating some of the most life-like robots ever — so life-like they can even be used for medical training. It seems the future is indeed now.