CBS 2 Chicago

A Lane Tech computer teacher has been removed from the campus after he was arrested Tuesday on prostitution-related charges. Full Story »

It's back to the drawing boards tonight for investigators trying to protect us from home-grown terrorists. Robert Grant, Chicago's FBI special agent-in-charge, gives CBS 2 Chief correspondent Jay Levine a frank and sobering assessment. Full Story »

A Cook County jury deliberated Wednesday afternoon and all day Thursday before finding Andre Crawford guilty of a string of rapes and murders on the South Side, the Sun-Times is reporting. Full Story »

She's only four months old and needs surgery, but she's already been denied health insurance. Her mother works for the city and blames bad information and mishandled records for her daughter being denied coverage. 2 Investigator Dave Savini is trying to untangle the red tape. Full Story »

There's another story of a Chicago Public Schools student being viciously attacked. This time, the victim may have lost an eye. The culprits appear to be a pack of girls. CBS 2's Anne State talked to the victim. Full Story »

An alleged robbery suspect was shot in the head by police Thursday afternoon in the South Side Hamilton Park neighborhood, the third police-involved shooting in a 14-hour span. Full Story »

As of 8:40 p.m., 129 passengers, plus a dozen crew members, remain on the Amtrak train that struck a pedestrian earlier Thursday evening. Full Story »

An insurance executive has agreed to plead guilty to interstate stalking for secretly making nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews Full Story »

So what do you do when the apartment building you live in has a fire? With the help of a safety expert, CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot offers tips about what to do – and what not to do – during a high-rise fire. Full Story »

Chicago's First Lady Maggie Daley is getting back to business as usual. On Thursday night, she was at an event for one of her pet projects: a student arts program. It's her first public appearance since a setback in her battle with cancer. CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports. Full Story »

Another problem with the city's much-maligned parking meters has cropped up, as some of the city's pay-and-display boxes have frozen in the frigid conditions in Chicago on Thursday. But Mayor Richard M. Daley downplayed the issue and the private company that oversees the parking meters insists the problem is not widespread. Full Story »

It was a surprising attack on a concertgoer caught on tape. In it, a House of Blues security guard pushes a woman to the ground after an October concert. Now, she's suing the club and speaking out for the first time. CBS 2's Derrick Blakley talked with her. Full Story »

Bulls Star Derrick Rose is one of the success stories from Englewood, but a lot of the kids from the tough South Side neighborhood aren't so fortunate. One caring and courageous woman is doing more than talking the talk, to help some young men have a fighting chance to make it. CBS 2's Megan Mawicke reports. Full Story »

First, their boss was accused of mishandling more than a million dollars. Then the money they relied on to help some of the most at-risk people in Chicago went away. Incredibly, many of them kept working for free. But now, as CBS 2's Dorothy Tucker reports, their own finances are in ruins. Full Story »

A federal appeals judge on Thursday ripped into the probation sentence imposed on former Chicago political leader Edward R. Vrdolyak in a real estate fraud case, saying "it makes the offense just seem trivial." Full Story »

A gunman has surrendered to Chicago police after shooting at police officers and barricading himself in a South Shore apartment for more than five hours on Thursday. Full Story »

A registered sex offender with a history of abusing a child was sentenced to 18 months in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to being on an elementary school playground last month. Full Story »

Delays from Thursday morning on several CTA lines serving the Loop were caused by weather-related switching problems, but have been fixed in time for the evening rush. Full Story »

A teen was ordered held on $350,000 bond after being charged with sexual abuse and harboring a runaway after police found a 14-year-old girl -- missing for more than a month -- in his South Side Englewood home on Tuesday. Full Story »

A towering fire in a high-rise condo building in Streeterville left a woman dead and a dozen others hurt, and required the use of about a third of the city's fire equipment. Three people remained hospitalized as of midday Thursday. Full Story »

McDonald's says it will begin selling a variety of breakfast items for $1 beginning in January. Full Story »

A northwest suburban man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for having illegal sexual contact with two boys. Full Story »

The deportation has been halted for a University of Illinois at Chicago student who was brought over the Mexican border when he was 6, but was about to be sent back after admitting to drunken driving. Full Story »

The Jane Addams Hull House Association is warning Chicagoans that scammers have been asking for money for a phony collection using the social service organization's name. Full Story »

A northwest Indiana service member is suing an apartment complex for evicting her after she told them she was being activated for duty, according to a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Hammond. Full Story »