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It’s a rare sight (and smell) indeed at the Chicago Botanic Garden, as an infamous “Corpse Flower” has begun to bloom. Officials at the...

With cases of a parasitic infection that causes “explosive diarrhea” climbing into the thousands in Michigan, health officials believe they...

Chicago White Sox slugger Munetaka Murakami will be swinging for the fences in the 2026 Home Run Derby in Philadelphia, and it was a rule ch...

Artists like Garth Brooks, Ed Sheeran and Post Malone rocked the stage at Summerfest in Milwaukee in 2026, but next year’s festival will see...

Neighbors are upset over what they argue is a restriction of public access to the lakefront in Cedar Lake, Indiana, about an hour south of C...

Police issued an alert to residents in several Chicago suburbs Monday as they search for a missing person, with an investigation shutting do...

Congress could soon vote on a bill that, if passed, would make daylight saving time permanent in the U.S., a transition sleep experts have q...

Two 16-year-olds were in custody in connection with an East St. Louis quintuple homicide, the Illinois State Police said, with officials des...

Air quality alerts have been issued across much of the Chicago area, with officials warning some people to limit their time outside and aski...

A popular suburban waterpark issued an alert to visitors after authorities announced charges against a man accused of inappropriately touchi...

The Illinois Tollway Monday night will hold its first public hearing over proposed rate hikes that could be the largest in state history....

Another heat wave will hit the Chicago area this week, but this one will be different than before. NBC 5 Storm Team Meteorologist Alicia...

Northbound lanes on I-57 in the south suburbs were closed early Monday morning for a reported shooting investigation, with state pol...

Police arrested a suspect in connection with a shooting that left one person injured and prompted a SWAT team response on Saturday night, au...

Five people have been killed and two others injured in what authorities described as a mass shooting targeting a family in East St. Louis, I...

The congregation at St. Sabina Church was filled with emotion one day after the Archdiocese of Chicago announced it had received an allegati...

At least three people were injured in a shooting on Chicago’s Near West Side Sunday morning, with one woman suffering severe injuries. A...

The search is on for three boaters missing after their pontoon boat capsized on a western Wisconsin lake Saturday. According to the Pepi...

The state of Illinois has chosen its official state bird, fish and a host of other creatures, and now the state has an official bee. Und...

Chicago police are investigating after a woman’s body was found in a garbage can in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.According to auth...

Authorities are investigating a serious crash that has closed a major roadway in suburban Aurora Sunday morning.According to updates fro...

A shooting in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood left two men injured, one critically. According to Chicago police, the two men were st...

A civilian oversight agency is investigating a shooting involving Chicago police officers in Grant Park overnight Sunday. According to t...

A search involving police K-9s and drone teams in a west suburb ended when the suspect was located in a marsh in the area and taken into cus...

Police are investigating after a person was shot at a suburban car festival on Saturday. Scoop Waukegan closed early on its second day a...