More than 10,000 people hit the streets of Chicago to make it a more beautiful city Saturday. And this year, Keep America Beautiful pitched in, tying Chicago to its national Great American Clean Up Program. CBS 2's Pamela Jones reports

We asked you how you think Todd Stroger is performing as president of the Cook County Board. Here is what you had to say.

This week, famed archeologist Indiana Jones returns to the big screen, but amateur archaeologists are already searching for clues to the past in Chicago. Saturday, a group of students sifted through the dirt near the Museum of Science and Industry,

Charges for the 29-year-old mother and two caretakers of a 13-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who died by neglect Thursday are expected to be upgraded to first-degree murder, police say. The three women remain in custody Saturday.

A Saturday afternoon standoff in the Northside's Roscoe village neighborhood ended peacefully with police taking the man into custody.

It's a time-tested tradition in Baltimore, and Saturday is the running of the 133rd Preakness stakes.

Nate McLouth hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer off Carlos Marmol in the ninth to lift the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 7-6 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Saturday even though Alfonso Soriano hit two home runs for the second straight

Big Brown powered to the lead turning for home and then sailed through the stretch to win the Preakness, still perfect and squarely pointed down the path toward thoroughbred racing's first Triple Crown in 30 years.

Alexei Ramirez connected for his first major league home run Friday night, a two-run shot in the seventh inning that lifted the Chicago White Sox to a 2-0 victory over the San Francisco Giants

Homicides in Chicago jumped almost 9 percent in the first four months of 2008, compared to the same period last year. Meanwhile, the Chicago Police Department on Friday announced additional weekend initiatives targeting violence in certain areas of the city.

An off-duty police officer fired shots Friday night in an attempt to break up a gunfight on the Far South Side.

A new stage theater will soon join the busy strip of Fullerton Avenue west of DePaul University.

A former maintenance man at Wheaton College's Billy Graham Center is heading to prison for stealing three vintage guitars from a locked storage room at the facility.

President Bush said Saturday that the Saudis' modest increase in oil production is "something but it doesn't solve our problem" of soaring gas prices.

Jerry Springer is used to being in the limelight, but his appearance Friday in Chicago didn't have everyone chanting his name. CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli reports on the talk show host's speech at Northwestern University's law school graduation.

New York Yankees first baseman Jason Giambi told a publication he wears a gold, tiger-stripe thong under his uniform when he wants to break out of a slump - and he lends it to teammates who are also having trouble

Three months. That's all that separated five Northern Illinois University students from receiving their degrees. The NIU community will send off their 2008 class on Saturday, and pay tribute to those that lost their lives in the deadly campus shooting.

Many drivers looking for relief from soaring gas prices are turning to new kinds of vehicles. CBS 2's Derrick Blakely report the success of the Smart car may be the ultimate proof that Americans no longer believe bigger is better.

A bat found Sunday in far north suburban Lake Villa tested positive for rabies, and there is a warning out now in Lake County about the dangers of rabid bats. CBS 2's Mai Martinez reports.