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Chicago police are asking for the public’s help to find Josefa Martinez, 83, who was last seen around 2:26 p.m. on March 29, 2026, in the 6900 block of S. Rockwell. She is described as 5’1” tall, 180 lbs., with brown eyes, gray hair, and a light brown complexion. She was last seen wearing gray slippers, blue jeans, a...

An early Sunday crash on the Eisenhower Expressway left one person dead and turned a key western suburb stretch of the inbound I-290 into a traffic nightmare. The multi-vehicle collision happened in the pre-dawn hours near 1st Avenue, which sits on the border between Maywood and Forest Park. Emergency crews shut down...

If time travel exists, it’s probably happening inside thrift stores where a 1970s lava lamp sits next to a 2010s smartphone case. Unique Thrift Store on North Elston Avenue in Chicago is the kind of place where you tell yourself you’ll just pop in for fifteen minutes, and suddenly it’s dark outside and you’ve missed...

The FBI is asking for help to solve a 23-year-old cold case involving the disappearance and death of a 7-year-old Illinois boy.

A woman was shot while walking at one of the busiest intersections along the Magnificent Mile on Monday evening, the unintended victim of a gunman who was trying to shoot someone else nearby, Chicago police said. The shooting happened around 9:27 p.m. in the first block of East Chicago Avenue,...

A man on probation for a DUI was busted again for drunk driving, this time with a toddler in the car. But prosecutors say Illinois' SAFE-T Act prevented the judge from ordering the man be locked-up until trial.

A severe thunderstorm watch was issued for DeKalb, LaSalle, Cook, DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry and Will counties until 3 a.m. Tuesday. Stay with the NBC 5 Storm Team for the latest weather alerts. A severe thunderstorm warning was issued for parts of northern Kendall, southern DeKalb and southern...

A 25-year-old man found bleeding and face-down on a Northwest Side street corner early last week has died, and sources familiar with the investigation say he appears to have been beaten to death. Alexander Kazanowski, of the 4000 block of West Nelson Street, was found unresponsive at the corner of...

One of two men charged with robbing a 17-year-old boy at a CTA Green Line station was already on pretrial release for allegedly carrying a gun at that same station, court records show. Stephon Edwards, 19, and Xander Simmons, 20, are accused of surrounding the boy at the Green Line...

Lilly Bova, 16, a high school sophomore at Glenbrook South, was killed around 11 a.m. on Saturday. The incident occurred in a Cook County neighborhood in Chicago. The armed suspect is still on the loose. In a statement, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office said, “While we cannot share further details at this time, this...