we welcome our viewer who are watching us around the country on wgn america and on the web. wgn s robert jordan is live at county building where preckwinkle was just sworn in. that s right. the todd stroger era is over. the preckwinkle presidency has just begun. todd stroger best known for instituting the 1% sales tax which was his undoing. toni preckwinkle ran on a platform undoing that but in order to do so she will have to find additional sources of revenue or institute some distasteful service cuts. president of the board of commissioner of cook county. to the best of my ability. to the best of my ability. congratulation. thank you very much [cheers and applause] thank you so much. new prts of the cook county board toni preckwinkle takes office facing a huge budget deficit and a county board that was not solidly behind its former president todd stroger. but today preckwinkle begins her term with a more optimistic board promising to support her as she makes
streaming out of the church right now and the service made clear that officer michael flisk was well loved and well respected and he will be missed. over 500 officers from chicago and well beyond are on hand at st. rita to honor michael flisk. the officer s widow and grown children, daughter and three sons openly wept throughout. also among the mourners, mayor daley and police superintendent jody weis. the flisk family includes a number of chicago police officers. and the emotional service included an address from the officer s daughter peg who was surrounded by her brothers. the death of my father, our hero is a tragedy. having to answer our front door the afternoon after a wonderful thanksgiving together to find out that my father was murdered is a feeling i cannot put into words. the flisk children also cited their father s love for his wife nora and peg flisk fought tears as she noted that she will now never have her father to walk her down the aisle. again, the servi
us around the country on wgn america and on the web. wgn s julian cruz is live in the news zone with information on our top story. reporter: the reward money has been upped to $20,000 as detectives continue to question a 19-year-old parolee. the chicago tribune says the person of interest they are talking to lives across the alley from the crime scene. but no word yet on any formal charges. it s been a challenging week for the chicago police department. purple bunt bunting is up at headquarters at 35th and michigan as fellow officers mourn their loss. please. reporter: shauna peters has suffered the most terrible of losses. she is pleading with the public grieving the loss of her husband stephen peters. the former chicago housing authority officer was gunned down in a south chicago alleyway friday along with police evidence technician michael flisk. they were investigating a garage burglary on the 8100 block of south bi ralph nham. officers are trying to turn up informa
sky cam 9 had the best view of the parking lot that kennedy turned into this evening. it took some motorists more than two hours to get from o hare to downtown. traffic on chicago area highways for most of the night best described with one simple word. slow. slow. reporter: yeah. worth saying twice. they re a nightmare. bumper to bumper. where are you trying to go to? ke are accident r ridge. and where are you coming from? wisconsin. reporter: many travelers leaving for a long holiday weekend out of town. some were just trying to get home from work. we left an hour from libertyville. we have a good hour and a half ride at least. traffic everywhere. it s pretty backed up. seems like it s not getting better. hopefully it will get better. reporter: traffic was so bad many big rig drivers gave up for the night. it s just jam packed. we were moving 4 mile-an-hour. i run out of time so here i sit. i ll wait until morning sometime and take off then. reporte
with a cigarette in his mouth indicating he may have known his killer. reporter: forensics units are on the scene as police investigate the latest murder of a fallen officer. that as another officer remains posted outside the victim s home. did not want to be identified tells wgn notification of family has been difficult because the fallen officer was an only child. and he already lost both of his parents. a neighbor recalls him as a good man. he used to come over to see his mom. and that s the only time i would see him. and you mentioned his mom passed away. yes, of cancer. just after 6:30 last night when the officer was found shot to death inside his personal suv. sources say it s a case of homicide because the shots were fired from inside the car. which was parked along the 2900 block of west side street. a police officer happens to live on the block and he was one to call 911. heard shots fired. outside the house. and outside the window. and saw what i thought