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CBS News
30-07-2025
- General
- CBS News
Tarantula mating season starts soon. Here are the states where the spiders will be most prevalent
A wave of tarantula sightings might occur in the next few months across portions of the U.S. as mating season begins. The secretive spiders are rarely seen – except during mating season. The hairy arachnids that are the size of a baseball will be spotted in the following states: California, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico and Texas, according to CBS Chicago. September and October are prime months to see tens of thousands of adult male tarantulas searching for a female ready to lay eggs in her nest, according to Pinnacles National Park in California. The largest spiders in North America, tarantulas are typically two to three inches long and are covered with thousands of fine hairs ranging in color from tan to dark brown. The spiders are usually out from late evening to early dawn to find a mate. A male tarantula begins his search for a mate when he reaches 8 or 10 years old. Tarantulas are solitary except during mating season, when the male follows the scent of a female tarantula to the receptive female's burrow. The female lines her burrow with silk webbing, waiting to be courted. The male taps one of his legs against the ground to alert the female until she emerges from her burrow. The male and female then participate in a mating dance -- in which the male fends off the female, who wishes to devour him. The death of the male can provide the female with nutrition. If he escapes the female's death dance, he dies within the year, the National Park Service said. They usually reach maturity around 10 years of age. Males die within a year of mating and may be eaten by the female before they mate. Females can live over 20 years, making them one of the spiders with the longest life spans. They can produce eggs for 25 years or more. The term "tarantula" originally referred to a southern European wolf spider called Lycosa tarentula, which was named after the town of Taranto, Italy. At one time, it was believed that the bite of this spider caused tarantism — which led to uncontrollable dancing and weeping, according to Pinnacles. The dance — known as Tarentella — turned into a popular Italian folk dance, and even inspired classical compositions. Tarantulas eat a variety of insects, in addition to snakes and small rodents. Tarantulas are sometimes eaten by lizards, snakes, birds and tarantula hawks, according to Pinnacles. Their bites can cause a painful reaction, with some comparing it to a bee sting. But tarantulas are usually gentle and rarely use their fangs — except to catch prey. Or if they are provoked. If alarmed, a tarantula will raise its front legs and abdomen to look aggressive, and they may also release stinging hairs from their abdomen, which irritate the skin. They can also jump up to two feet, according to CBS Chicago. If you spot a tarantula, take time to observe its behavior and body, according to the National Park Service. "Contrary to appearance and reputation, the tarantula is a timid creature and will not bite human beings unless seriously provoked," the NPS says.
Metro
04-07-2025
- Metro
‘Mum stabs her three children killing one and sets home on fire'
A mother allegedly stabbed three of her children, killing one of them, and then set their home on fire on the morning of the Fourth of July. The 45-year-old woman is accused of using a knife to stab her kids inside the Northwest Side of Chicago on Friday morning, according to police. Police responded to a call of a person with a knife in the Logan Square neighborhood shortly before 9.15am on Friday. 'I got this child yelling for help out the basement window,' said a 911 caller, according to WLS. More Trending 'We're trying to get her out of the window. I do see blood. 'She's covered in blood, got the knife away from her.' A four-year old boy was found dead, and seven others including two children were hospitalized, police said. A source told CBS Chicago that the woman was the mother of the children. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. MORE: 'Bear Alcatraz' floated as migrant detention center near alligators opens for Trump MORE: At least 13 dead and 23 children missing as 'catastrophic' river floods sweep Texas MORE: Frightening text message that caused plane to divert mid-flight
New York Post
03-07-2025
- New York Post
3 dead, 16 injured in drive-by mass shooting outside Chicago nightclub: report
Three people were killed and 16 others wounded when gunfire erupted outside a Chicago nightclub Wednesday night, CBS Chicago reported, citing authorities. Police said a drive-by shooting occurred outside the Artis Restaurant and Lounge nightclub on the 300 block of W Chicago Ave in the Near North Side neighborhood of the Windy City. Chicago police investigate the shooting on July 3, 2025. AP Advertisement A car is parked inside police tape in Chicago, Illinois after the shooting. AP Revelers were leaving the 'high-end dining and nightlife destination' after an album release party for Chicago-based rapper Mello Buckzz. The rapper advertised that the event was being held at a 'private location,' which started at 7 p.m. local time. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
CBS News
24-06-2025
- Climate
- CBS News
Air conditioning restored to 1 of 4 buildings in Park Forest, Illinois, complex after weeks
Some residents of the south Chicago suburb of Park Forest finally had some relief Tuesday after having had no air conditioning for weeks. Four buildings in the Autumn Ridge apartment complex have been without AC, but just Tuesday afternoon, it was fixed in one of the buildings. Park Forest Mayor Joseph Woods said as of Tuesday afternoon, the village still had not heard from the property owners at the Autumn Ridge Apartments complex. But during CBS News Chicago's interview with the mayor, he was made aware that onsite property management was fixing the air conditioning at one of the buildings. It is one of four buildings that have been without AC all this time. The other three still don't have it. "I have to be a little candid," said Mayor Woods. "We've heard some things, we've been given promises before — and some of those necessarily didn't come through." Mayor Woods said he is optimistically cautious all four buildings at Autumn Ridge will have working AC by the end of the week. But he said the property management have made promises in the past that they didn't keep. Mayor Woods said last summer, the property management left the heat on. "One of the things they were saying: 'Well look, this is only going to be a heatwave for two or three days. Now if we turn off the heat and it gets cold next week, we can't turn it back on,'" Woods said. "That was one of the answers we had gotten, and that the residents had gotten." On Thursday of last week, CBS Chicago first reported that residents of Autum Ridge couldn't catch a breeze. This week amid the heat wave, they were still dealing with the sweltering heat inside their apartment units. Carmel Davis is among those who finally has air conditioning flowing through her home on Tuesday. While her building was the first to get fixed, she said it shouldn't have gotten to this point. "I'm disgusted," Davis said. "I feel like this a bandage coverup for some things that we're experiencing here all together." But Roshaunda Curtis lives in one of the buildings where the AC still doesn't work. "It's like going into a sauna that hasn't fully baked, but it's well on its way," said Curtis. CBS News Chicago visited Curtis and her family Monday, when her thermostat said 86 degrees. On Tuesday, it was up to 87. One fan was devoted to the Curtis family's 5-month-old baby, another to their dog. "They've known about this issue well before the summer hit. They knew about it, and they waited until the news came. They waited until heat was sweltering to then finally start pushing to do things," Curtis said, "and again, I have to question, are you doing things because the village is fining you every day?" Residents said the Crete Monee School District donated at least 13 AC units, which residents say they installed themselves. "I'm kind of nervous on what would have happened if the news hadn't have got on this, because a lot of the information that we're hearing, we're starting to hear it, you know, through the news," Curtis said. Mayor Woods said getting residents relief is the main priority for the village, but the village plans to hold the property managers accountable. "On the code enforcement side, it would be easy enough to say we're going to do this, we're going after the property management company," Woods said. "But to do that without knowing how that necessarily affects the residents would be irresponsible, and that's something we don't want to do." Mayor Woods said the residents of the buildings still without AC are still in need of water bottles and more AC units. Woods also reminded residents there are two cooling centers open during regular business hours, but the Park Forest police station is open 24 hours a day in a cooling facility.
CBS News
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Longtime CBS Chicago anchorman Walter Jacobson honored with DiFrisco Lifetime Achievement Award
Longtime CBS News Chicago anchorman Walter Jacobson was honored Thursday by the Joint Civic Commission of Italian Americans. At the 2025 Dante & DiFrisco Awards luncheon Thursday at Galleria Marchetti, 825 W. Erie St., Jacobson won the Dominic DiFirsco Lifetime Achievement Award. The award was established in 2020 to honor the life and legacy of the public relations executive who founded the Dante Awards. Meteorologists Kylee Miller and David Yeomans, reporter Sabrina Franza, digital producer Elyssa Kaufman, vice president of broadcast operations and engineering Tom Schnecke, and executive assistant to the general manager Raleshia Brumfield were all in attendance on behalf of CBS Chicago — and posed for a photo with Jacobson. Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans Meanwhile on Thursday, Chicago Sun-Times Washington Bureau Chief Lynn Sweet won the Dante Award at the luncheon. This award is presented to a member of the local news media who the Joint Civic Commission of Italian Americans deems to have answered Dante Alighieri's call to be "no timid friend to truth." Jacobson, now 87, first joined Channel 2 in 1963 — first as a writer, but soon appearing on air. He worked as a reporter and later political editor for the station before switching to NBC 5 in 1971. In 1973, Jacobson was recruited to return to Channel 2 as an anchor and commentator — working alongside anchorman Bill Kurtis, at the time a CBS News West Coast correspondent who had also previously been an anchor and reporter for CBS Chicago. In what became the most famous era of Channel 2 News, Jacobson sat with Kurtis at a horseshoe-shaped anchor desk in the front of the station's newsroom to read the headlines, while providing his nightly "Perspective" commentary from his own desk in a corner of the newsroom. Jacobson co-anchored Channel 2's 10 p.m. news with Kurtis from 1973 until 1982, with Don Craig from 1982 until 1985, and with Kurtis again from 1985 until 1989. Jacobson also anchored the Channel 2 News at 5 p.m. solo from 1976 to 1986, and co-anchored other afternoon news programs for several years afterward. (l-r) Movie critic Gene Siskel and anchors Bill Kurtis and Walter Jacobson in the old Channel 2 newsroom at 630 N. McClurg Ct., late 1970s. CBS He also hosted the "Newsmakers" Sunday morning program political roundtable program for several years. Among his work as a reporter for Channel 2, Jacobson remains well-known for his February 1991 "Mean Street Diary" series, in which he spent 48 hours wandering the streets homeless with a hidden camera, and for his May 1992 exclusive interview with John Wayne Gacy. Jacobson switched stations to Fox 32 in 1993, and remained there until 2006. In 2009, Jacobson and Kurtis returned for what was initially to be a one-night reunion on Channel 2's 10 p.m. news, but in August 2010, the acclaimed anchor pair returned on a nightly basis for the station's 6 p.m. news. Kurtis and Jacobson's CBS Chicago encore run continued until February 2013. Jacobson had most recently been providing his "Perspective" commentaries on Chicago's WGN Radio — a role from which he stepped back in March of this year.
