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Three Teens Dead, Fourth Injured In NW Suburban Crash
Updated 6/18/11 5:29 p.m. PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Ill. (STMW) – Three teens were killed and a fourth was injured when the stolen car they were in slammed into a tree 75 yards from the Prospect Heights police...
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Three Teens Killed, 4th Hurt In Crash Of Stolen Car
Updated 06/19/11 – 5:18 p.m. PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Ill. (CBS) – Friends and family members on Sunday were mourning the deaths of three teenagers killed in a car crash in Prospect Heights early Saturday....
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Teen Credits Seat Belt With Saving Life In Crash
PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Ill. (CBS) – A 17-year old survivor of a deadly car crash credits a seat belt with saving his life last weekend. As WBBM Newsradio 780’s Bernie Tafoya reports, Daniel Ascencio, 17,...
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Survivor Charged In Crash That Killed 3 In Prospect Heights
PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Ill. (CBS) – The sole survivor of a crash that killed three teenagers in Prospect Heights is now under arrest. As WBBM Newsradio 780’s Bernie Tafoya reports, Prospect Heights police...
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Man Kills Woman, Self In Prospect Heights Condo Building
PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Ill. (CBS) — Police say a man shot and killed a woman, then turned the gun on himself, in a condo complex in Prospect Heights this week. Around 3:30 p.m. Monday, police in the...
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Head-On Collision Ties Up Busy Intersection In Prospect Heights
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (CBS) — A head-on collision resulted in injuries and nearly shut down a busy intersection in Prospect Heights early Wednesday. As CBS 2’s Kris Habermehl reports, a compact car...
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City Christmas Tree Lights Up Daley Plaza Christkindlmarket
CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago’s official Christmas tree is ablaze with thousands of lights — topped out with a big white star. After a couple of years of trees panned by some Chicagoans as scraggly, the...
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Cabbie Accused Of Kidnapping, Raping Woman In Taxi Charged In 2nd Attack
Updated 02/26/13 – 12:35 p.m. ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. (CBS) – A homeless Chinese immigrant cab driver who was arrested this weekend for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a passenger has been charged in...
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Des Plaines Blames Neighbors For Flood Problems
DES PLAINES, Ill. (CBS) – The city of Des Plaines is blaming Mount Prospect and Prospect Heights for some of its flooding problems. Des Plaines officials believe their upstream neighbors – Mount...
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Teen Summons Prostitute, Who Pepper-Sprays Him And Steals His Piggybank
(CBS) – A Prospect Heights teen used an iPad to arrange what he thought would be an encounter with a prostitute but instead got robbed of the electronic device and a piggybank after being...
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School Bus Driver Suffers Heart Attack In Prospect Heights
play pause School Bus Driver Suffers Heart Attack WBBM Newsradio's Nancy Harty PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Ill. (CBS) – A 67-year-old bus driver collapsed and suffered an apparent heart attack on Monday as kids...
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Police Investigate Death Of Baby Girl In Prospect Heights
(CBS) – An investigation is under way in Prospect Heights following the death of a 1-month-old girl. Police and paramedics responded to a call of an unresponsive baby at 10 a.m. Thursday in the 800...
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Missing Teen Found Safe After Fire Guts Prospect Heights House
Updated 11/3/14 – 9:41 a.m. CHICAGO (CBS) – A teenager who went missing after his family’s home burned in northwest suburban Prospect Heights has been found safe. The 14-year-old boy’s family reported...
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Wheeling, Prospect Heights Aim For Fireworks Show At Executive Airport
CHICAGO (CBS) – Here’s something to get you thinking about summer: planners already are putting together fireworks shows for Independence Day. The village of Wheeling had to get creative this year. A...
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Police Asking For Help Identifying Young Girl Found In Prospect Heights
(CBS) — The Cook County Sheriff’s office is asking for the public’s help in identifying a girl found Tuesday evening in a forest preserve in Prospect Heights. The sheriff’s office says the 3 or 4 year...
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Girl Found Alone In Prospect Heights Identified
CHICAGO (CBS) — A 3-year-old girl found wandering alone in a forest preserve in Prospect Heights has been identified by her family, but has not yet been reunited, as police and child welfare...
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Father In Custody After Girl Found Alone In Forest Preserve
CHICAGO (CBS) — Cook County Sheriff’s police said they are continuing to investigate how a 3-year-old girl ended up alone near a forest preserve in northwest suburban Prospect Heights on Tuesday. The...
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Teachers Strike Looming In Prospect Heights
Teachers Strike May Hit Prospect Heights WBBM 780/105.9FMplaypause (CBS) — The first strike in Prospect Heights School District 23 ever could happen this week. Teachers are asking for $1.3 million in...
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Prospect Heights School District, Teachers Meet As Strike Looms
(CBS) — Students in Prospect Heights are treating tonight like a snow day, anxiously awaiting to hear if there will be school Wednesday morning. Weather is not the issue, there is a teachers strike...
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Prospect Heights District 23 Teachers Go On Strike
CHICAGO (CBS) — Teachers at four schools in the northwest suburbs have gone on strike, after last ditch negotiations broke down overnight. Classes at Prospect Heights School District 23 have been...
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Negotiations To Resume Amid Prospect Heights Teachers Strike
CHICAGO (CBS) — As approximately 1,500 students in four northwestern suburbs missed a second day of school due to a teachers’ strike, the head of the Prospect Heights school board was offering a...
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Prospect Heights School Board Makes Final Offer To Striking Teachers
CHICAGO (CBS) — A northwest suburban school board has urged teachers to return to work on Thursday, after more than a week on strike. Prospect Heights School District 23’s board said it made its best...
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Contract Negotiations Resume Amid Prospect Heights Teachers Strike
Contract Negotiations Resume WBBM 780/105.9FMplaypause (CBS) — Contract negotiations resume tonight in the strike by teachers at Prospect Heights District 23 schools. The two sides will be back at the...
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Prospect Heights Teachers, School Board Reach Deal, Students Back To School...
(CBS) — Students in Prospect Heights will head back to school on Monday as the school district and teachers reached an agreement to end a teacher strike, according to a statement on the Prospect...
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Prospect Heights Catholic School Faces Monday Deadline To Raise $300k
(CBS) — St. Alphonsus School in Prospect Heights is up against a Monday deadline to raise $300,000 or this could be the last year the school is in operation. Reports WBBM’s Mike Krauser St. Alphonsus...
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St. Alphonsus School To Stay Open Next Year
CHICAGO (CBS) — A long fight to stay open has ended with a win for a north suburban Catholic school. St. Alphonsus Liguori Catholic School in Prospect Heights met the requirements to keep their doors...
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Driver Overdosing On Heroin Causes Car Accident, Cops Revive Him
(CBS) – There were no major injuries after a heroin overdose led to a car crash in Prospect Heights over the weekend. It’s the latest example of someone saved by the opioid remedy Narcan, WBBM’s Rob...
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2 Prospect Heights Men Are Being Held On Bond For Sexual Abuse Charges
CHICAGO (CBS) – Two northwest suburban men are behind bars accused of sexually abusing teenage boys. As CBS 2’s Mai Martinez reports, police have identified three victims, but fear there could be more....
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Prospect Heights Police Search For 4 Men Involved In Attempted Kidnapping
CHICAGO (CBS) — Police in Prospect Heights seek four men who eluded them late Tuesday afternoon after the men apparently tried to kidnap someone off the street. It was around 5 p.m. Tuesday afternoon...
View ArticleSuburban Flooding Causing Homeowner Headaches
CHICAGO (CBS) — From sunshine to flood warnings, it just depends on where you live. Hardest hit are folks living in the northern suburbs where runoff continues. CBS 2’s Audrina Bigos reports from...
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More Than 100 Displaced By Prospect Heights Apartment Fire
CHICAGO (CBS) — Flames broke out at a suburban condo complex, burning home after home for several hours Wednesday. Fire officials have been working for eight hours to put out the blaze. They say they...
View ArticleQuestions Remain About Prospect Heights Blaze Displacing Dozens
CHICAGO (CBS) — A fire raged out of control in Prospect Heights, leaving more than 100 people homeless. The fire department has not determined an official cause of the blaze but investigators are...
View ArticleFlames Rekindle At Prospect Heights Condo Building, Fire Ruled ‘Accidental’
CHICAGO (CBS) — Investigators say the massive fire at the condo complex in northwest suburban Prospect Heights was accidental. They say they are looking into claims the fire was caused by a child...
View ArticleVictims Of Prospect Heights Condo Fire To Return To Salvage Belongings
CHICAGO (CBS) — Families left homeless after a massive fire last week at a condo complex in northwest suburban Prospect Heights can begin retrieving personal belongings from the scene on Thursday. The...
View ArticleMan Fatally Stabbed In Prospect Heights
CHICAGO (CBS)–A stabbing in northwest suburban Prospect Heights early Wednesday left a 26-year-old man dead. Police said the man was stabbed in an apartment on the 700 block of Piper Lane. He was taken...
View ArticleNew Recreational Cannabis Dispensary Opens In Prospect Heights
CHICAGO (CBS) —A new cannabis dispensary had a ribbon cutting ceremony in the northwest suburbs. Zen Leaf opened for business on Rand Road in Prospect Heights. It is the first dispensary for the suburb...
View ArticleSUV Plows Into Hair Salon In Prospect Heights
PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Ill. (CBS) — A sport-utility vehicle plowed right through the storefront window of a hair salon in Prospect Heights Tuesday evening. It happened at a men’s hair salon in a strip mall...
View ArticleHelicopter Crashes In Prospect Heights, Pilot Suffers Minor Injuries
CHICAGO (CBS)– A private helicopter crashed in Prospect Heights Wednesday morning. The helicopter crashed after taking off from Chicago Executive Airport and struck a light pole. Prospect Heights...
View Article65-Year-Old Woman Dies In Prospect Heights Condo Building Fire
CHICAGO (CBS) — A 65-year-old woman died Friday morning in a fire in a condo building in north suburban Prospect Heights. Firefighters responded to the fire around 6:45 a.m. at Lake Run Condos, a...
View ArticleMail Stolen From Blue Boxes In Four Suburbs Within Days In Early November
CHICAGO (CBS) — Park Ridge was not the only suburb where a thief broke open blue mailboxes a few weeks ago. CBS 2 discovered it also happened in three other suburbs—from the south to the north—all over...
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