<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://cbs2chicago.com/wireapnewsil/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>Chicago news, weather, traffic - CBS 2 - WBBM</title><link>http://cbs2chicago.com/wireapnewsil</link><description><![CDATA[Chicago news, weather, traffic - CBS 2 - WBBM]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMIX, CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:58:59 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[ILLINOIS SPOTLIGHT: Shoe Program Helps Children]]></title><guid>http://cbs2chicago.com/wireapnewsil/Alton.shoe.program.2.1328362.html</guid><link>http://cbs2chicago.com/wireapnewsil/Alton.shoe.program.2.1328362.html</link><description><![CDATA[This year, the "Shoe Man" is busier than ever. Ford Green of Godfrey has earned the nickname "The Shoe Man" with years and years of collecting funds and assisting local children with the All God's Children Shall Have Shoes program. This year, because of a tight economy, the needs are great for children. The "Shoe Man" expects to give more than 500 Alton area children new shoes and socks by the time his program ends in early December.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:01:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chicago Woman Charged With Abusing Female Relative]]></title><guid>http://cbs2chicago.com/wireapnewsil/Chicago.woman.charged.2.1328319.html</guid><link>http://cbs2chicago.com/wireapnewsil/Chicago.woman.charged.2.1328319.html</link><description><![CDATA[A 29-year-old Chicago woman is charged with physically and sexually abusing a female relative over three years. Chicago Police say Maria Flores is charged with predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, aggravated battery of a child, domestic battery causing bodily harm and endangering the life of a child. Police say the victim reported the abuse to school officials.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:02:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quinn Creates Human Services Commission]]></title><guid>http://cbs2chicago.com/wireapnewsil/Quinn.creates.commission.2.1328318.html</guid><link>http://cbs2chicago.com/wireapnewsil/Quinn.creates.commission.2.1328318.html</link><description><![CDATA[Gov. Pat Quinn has created a commission tasked with making recommendations about human services in Illinois. Quinn named Toni Irving and Ngoan Le as co-chairs of the Human Services Commission. Irving is the governor's deputy chief of staff, while Le is vice president of programs at the Chicago Community Trust.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:02:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Group Aims To Improve Hospital Care In Childbirth]]></title><guid>http://cbs2chicago.com/wireapnewsil/Group.asking.hospitals.2.1328317.html</guid><link>http://cbs2chicago.com/wireapnewsil/Group.asking.hospitals.2.1328317.html</link><description><![CDATA[A regulatory group hopes to improve the quality of childbirth and delivery services in hospitals by tracking data in a new way. For the first time, the Joint Commission is asking hospitals to report data on induced labor and exclusive breast feeding. The measures are endorsed by the National Quality Forum, a nonprofit organization that aims to improve the quality of health care.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:01:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report: Ill. Prison Deal Could Create 3,000 Jobs]]></title><guid>http://cbs2chicago.com/wireapnewsil/White.House.report.2.1327935.html</guid><link>http://cbs2chicago.com/wireapnewsil/White.House.report.2.1327935.html</link><description><![CDATA[A deal to house Guantanamo Bay detainees at a northwestern Illinois prison could bring nearly 3,000 jobs to the area, a White House analysis says. Residents from the seven-county area surrounding the Thomson, Ill, prison would be "excellent candidates" for up to 1,400 of the jobs generated in the deal's first year, according to the report by the president's Council of Economic Advisers. The report comes as officials from the federal Bureau of Prisons and the Illinois Department of Corrections toured the facility Saturday, along with Democratic lawmakers from Illinois and Iowa.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:47:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rhodes Scholars Named For 2010]]></title><guid>http://cbs2chicago.com/wireapnewsil/Rhodes.Scholars.named.2.1328007.html</guid><link>http://cbs2chicago.com/wireapnewsil/Rhodes.Scholars.named.2.1328007.html</link><description><![CDATA[The 32 American students chosen as Rhodes Scholars for 2010, listed by geographic region: District 1: William J. Oppenheim III, New Canaan, Conn., Bowdoin College]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:46:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some Doubts About Earrings Tied To Mrs. Lincoln]]></title><guid>http://cbs2chicago.com/wireapnewsil/Questions.surround.earrings.2.1327694.html</guid><link>http://cbs2chicago.com/wireapnewsil/Questions.surround.earrings.2.1327694.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Kentucky Historical Society has been displaying and publicizing a pair of earrings as having belonged to Mary Todd Lincoln, but others aren't as sure about their authenticity. The pair of apparently gold-mounted black onyx pendant earrings were purchased by the Historical Society in 2008 for more than $19,000 through Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported Sunday. Historical Society Executive Director Kent Whitworth said that, in the society's best professional judgment, the earrings did once belong to Lincoln.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:53:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mo. Man Accused Of Fathering Child With Ill. Teen]]></title><guid>http://cbs2chicago.com/wireapnewsil/St.Louis.man.2.1327709.html</guid><link>http://cbs2chicago.com/wireapnewsil/St.Louis.man.2.1327709.html</link><description><![CDATA[A 25-year-old St. Louis man has been charged with sexual assault after fathering a child with a 13-year-old Illinois girl. Tony Hickman is being held at the St. Clair County Jail on $200,000 bail. It was not immediately clear on Sunday whether he has an attorney. East St. Louis police detective Gilda Johnson says the victim is a daughter of Hickman's friend. She says the teen was assaulted for several months beginning in February 2008. She was 13 at the time and had a child.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:17:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Body Found In Wooded Area North Of Chicago]]></title><guid>http://cbs2chicago.com/wireapnewsil/Forest.preserve.workers.2.1327640.html</guid><link>http://cbs2chicago.com/wireapnewsil/Forest.preserve.workers.2.1327640.html</link><description><![CDATA[Cook County forest preserve workers have found human remains in a sleeping bag north of Chicago. Workers at Bunker Hill Woods in north suburban Niles found the skeletal remains in a wooded area Saturday afternoon. Authorities say the body is so badly decomposed that it was impossible to immediately tell the person's age or gender. It's unclear how long the remains have been there.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:13:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decatur's Scars Still Show Decade After Expulsions]]></title><guid>http://cbs2chicago.com/wireapnewsil/A.decade.after.2.1327613.html</guid><link>http://cbs2chicago.com/wireapnewsil/A.decade.after.2.1327613.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Rev. Jesse Jackson led marches and prayer vigils in Decatur 10 years ago this month after the expulsion of six black students for fighting at a football game. Kenneth Arndt was school superintendent then. He says national opinion was against the expulsions until a homemade video of the fight aired. He and others say it was a violent melee that endangered spectators. Jackson says the fight involved no weapons or gangs. He brought attention to the racial disparity in the way schools discipline children of different races.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:43:27 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>