Mike Puccinelli
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Chicago, IL, United States
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SUV Found In Deadly Hit-And-Run; Police Still Searching For Suspects
Chicago police have recovered an SUV that was used to run down a woman in a hit-and-run crash Monday. → Read More
Boats Allowed To Have Up To 10 People On Board Under New Illinois Reopen Rules
Chicago's harbor system is one of the largest in the nation with about 6,000 boat slips -- slips that remain empty right now because of COVID-19 -- but that could all be about to change. → Read More
River City Residents Evacuate After Flooding Leaves Them Without Water, Electricity
Torrential rains and flooding left the River City complex without power or water on Monday, forcing the evacuation off all 449 units, several residents told CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli. → Read More
Protesters Call For Governor Pritzker To Reopen Illinois
The demand to reopen Illinois businesses was on display at the Thompson Center in Chicago Saturday afternoon as protesters who say they governor has overstepped his authority demonstrated there. → Read More
A Chicago Worker Caring For A Man With Cerebral Palsy Hasn’t Been Paid In Weeks
"I would be in a nursing home or I'd probably be dead." → Read More
Man Wheeled Out Of Northwest Community Hospital To Family After 34-Day Battle With COVID-19
Every positive case is a person – perhaps a father or mother, or sister or brother to someone. → Read More
Battling For COVID-19 Unemployment Benefits
"What am I supposed to do? I have rent to pay. I have a car note. I have other bills." → Read More
The Fight Furloughed Workers Face With No Income And No Health Insurance
Experts said people who were laid off due to COVID-19 have 60 days to apply for health insurance through state plans. → Read More
Large, Packed Parties Shown Violating Stay-At-Home Order, Some Busted By Police
Police this weekend busted up a rowdy house party in Chicago, for which video went viral. And it was not the only one. → Read More
University Of Illinois Hospital Nurse Dies Of COVID-19
“For the new nurses, they feel like she’s like their mother,” Illinois Nurses Association President Terence Yee said. → Read More
Chicago Woman Finds She Still Has COVID-19 After Clean Bill Of Health
A Chicago woman who thought she had beaten COVID-19 only to be told the virus was still infecting her body is sharing her experience as a cautionary tale. → Read More
Concern About COVID-19 Deaths In Nursing Homes Grows In DuPage County, Around State
CAROL STREAM, Ill. (CBS) — Twenty-one percent of the 1,349 COVID-19 deaths in Illinois have been in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. More than 100,000 people currently live in those facilities. As CBS 2’s Mike Puccinelli reported, 15 people have died of coronavirus at the Covenant Living at Windsor Park retirement community, between […] → Read More
37 Migrant Children At Heartland Alliance Shelter Test Positive For Coronavirus
"We are operating under the assumption that we will see additional positive diagnoses," Heartland Alliance spokeswoman Mailee Garcia said. → Read More
Little Village Residents Ask ‘Why Now’ For Smokestack Demolition During COVID-19 Pandemic
"Why was a permit of an implosion was given during a pandemic in the first place?" → Read More
Instacart Workers Plan To Walk Off Job Monday Over Coronavirus Dangers
Getting groceries during a pandemic has suddenly become a risky business, and now, shoppers who go to the store on behalf of others are planning to walk off their jobs. → Read More
Hospitals Setting Up Tents To Help With COVID-19 Cases, But Weekend Storms Bring New Threat
Tents are becoming a new fixture outside hospital emergency rooms. It's the new reality in the time of the coronavirus pandemic. → Read More
Keeping Store Shelves Stocked Amid COVID-19 Panic Buying
"We did about five times normal sales between Thursday and Sunday." → Read More
Lynwood’s Courageous K-9 Gets Hero’s Welcome After Spinal Surgery
"I promised him the best of care. Everyone here helped me make good on that promise." → Read More
Relief After Crystal Lake ‘House Of Horrors’ Where AJ Freund Died Is Demolished
CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. (CBS) — Wrecking crews destroyed a home which was the scene of a horrible crime in Crystal Lake. CBS 2’s Mike Puccinelli spoke to those who lived near the home and are relieved to see it gone. Shortly after the sun came up, the house where AJ Freund lost his life began to come down. “Happy to see the house finally taken down,” said Nick Rugo from Crystal Lake. “The bad… → Read More
Drugs In Development For SARS Could Work For Coronavirus, Chicago Researchers Find
Drugs developed for SARS could be an effective treatment for novel coronavirus (COVID-19), new research finds. → Read More