Page 2 - Dane Placko News Today

It's not quite august yet, but Chicago Public Schools is already pulling out all the stops on its fox campaign.

Flooding rains over the past few weeks have focused new attention on Cook County's massive deep tunnel system. In a FOX 32 special report, Dane Placko looks at how the system works and sometimes doesn't work as some question whether it will be able to handle more intense storms caused by climate change.

The federal consent decree was supposed to fundamentally reform the way police work in Chicago. But five years into the decree, forcing change on the Chicago Police Department has proved to be a lot slower and tougher than anybody expected.

London has Big Ben, Paris has the Eiffel Tower, but on Chicago's Northwest Side, there is a landmark everyone knows and loves.

With longer trains, Bensenville Village President Frank DeSimone says it isn’t a question of if an Ohio train derailment happens here, but when.

This week marks 15 years since the Lane Bryant murders happened in a Tinley Park strip mall. In a Fox 32 News special report, Dane Placko takes a look back at the case described as one with a lot of leads and no clear motive.

This month marks 40 years since seven Chicago-area residents died of poisoning after taking Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. In all those years, no one has ever been charged with the murders.

Next week marks 40 years since the Tylenol murders shook Chicago and the nation. Decades later, it remains a cold case. Or is it?

Darren Bailey, running for governor of Illinois, has made the unconventional choice to disparage his potential constituency in Chicago as a "hellhole" and to insist that access to abortion has been worse than the Holocaust. Meanwhile, the governor of New Hampshire has had to eat his words and endorse the Republican nominee to the U.S. Senate who insulted him as a Communist pawn.

At a Monday morning news conference, police addressed the issue of drag racing and drifting that affected a number of neighborhoods throughout the event that was clearly organized on social media.