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One lucky Lotto player in the Chicago suburbs came away with a massive win last week, matching all six numbers in Thursday evening’s drawin...

Strong to severe storms with damaging winds, heavy rain and small hail moving into the Chicago area Tuesday morning had begun to disrupt ai...

The first of two rounds of strong to severe showers and storms were moving into the Chicago area Tuesday morning as a line of thunderstorms...

Two rounds of rain and storms were expected to hit the Chicago area Tuesday, the NBC 5 Strom Team reported, with both the morning and after...

Rounds of showers and storms are set to move into the Chicago area Tuesday, some with the potential to be strong to severe, the NBC 5 Storm...

The University of Chicago campus police department early Tuesday began ordering students to leave an encampment that had been the site of P...

Plenty of action unfolded on Monday at the village board meeting in Dolton, the first such meeting since three subpoenas were served on the...

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias will launch a new campaign encouraging residents to obtain a REAL ID on Wednesday, which will...

A phone call about a 1966 Calumet City murder prompted detectives to reexamine the cold case more than 55 years later and then make an arre...

A man in north suburban McHenry was arrested after allegedly robbing a bank while he left his 9-month-old baby home alone, officials said....

As hundreds of millions of birds migrate northward for their spring breeding season, the city of Chicago has a critical role to play in kee...

A lockdown was put in place on Monday afternoon at Acero Charter School’s Veterans Memorial Campus following a report of an armed person an...

Citing a growing need for accessible mental health services, Josselyn, the longtime Lake County mental health provider, has expanded to pro...

Child sexual abuse at Illinois juvenile detention centers was pervasive and systemic for decades, according to disturbing accounts in a law...

A central Illinois jury found a pediatric surgeon acted negligently in his treatment of a baby more than a decade ago and awarded the now-t...

Officials are warning pet owners to “take special precautions” as a historic cicada emergence begins in the city and suburbs.The Cook C...

A Wisconsin man has been charged with attempted murder and aggravated battery, including strangulation, after what authorities said was a s...

Millions of birds are currently flying through the Great Plains and the Midwest as they make their way toward their spring breeding sites,...

While peak cicada emergence hasn’t quite hit Illinois, individual sightings of cicadas in the Chicago area has begun as the state expects a...

Chicago’s weather forecast Monday calls for a dry and sunny day, but rain and strong to severe storms are on the horizon, the NBC 5 Storm T...

Chicago police on Sunday were looking to locate the hit-and-run driver who struck a woman in the city’s Bucktown neighborhood, officials sa...

A 3-year-old girl died and three others sustained injuries in a single-vehicle crash late Sunday morning along DuSable Lake Shore Drive, au...

One person died on Sunday afternoon after falling from the stands at Ohio State University’s football stadium during spring commencement....

The annual spring migration of birds is continuing over the United States, and Illinois is expected to see millions of the animals crossing...

At least two people were shot in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood Sunday morning, with one of the victims running inside a popular music ve...