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Suburban leaders are navigating growing controversies over the use of Flock license plate reader technology as some municipalities embrace its security benefits while others pause implementation due to privacy concerns and potential misuse.

Three suspects were taken into custody after a car chase on the Dan Ryan Expressway Wednesday morning, Illinois State Police said.

The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified the body of the man pulled out of Lake Michigan Friday afternoon. The man was identified as 44-year-old James Blaylock, address unknown, according to medical examiner’s office spokesperson Natalia Derevyanny. Blaylock’s body was found around 11:37 a.m. Friday by

A 15-year-old boy was wounded while standing outside a restaurant in the West Garfield Park neighborhood Tuesday night, Chicago police said.

CHICAGO — A man accused of fatally shooting another man on the city’s South Side last year is now facing a felony charge. Chicago police say 37-year-old Dominque Lewis has been charged with one felony count of first-degree murder. The charge stems from Lewis’s alleged role in a deadly shooting that unfolded in the 6600

Brookfield police arrested a 25-year-old Chicago man on Aug. 17 for driving drunk. Around 4 a.m., police responded to the intersection of 47th Street and Plainfield Road on a report of a suspicious automobile after dispatchers reported a silver Honda was parked on the side of the construction lane with a traffic horse

Forget GPS: You'll know where you are in the U.S. by the way they make their hot dogs. There's New York City style hot dogs with mustard and ketchup, Seattle dogs with cream cheese, and even bacon-wrapped dogs in parts of Arizona. But nothing really compares to the hot dogs in Chicagoland, where Portillo's — a popular

Dangerous heat with "stifling" humidity and the chance for strong to severe storms are in the Chicago forecast Tuesday for the start of meteorological fall. "First day of September feeling like the middle of summer," NBC 5 Storm Team Meteorologist Iisha Scott said. Starting at 12 p.m., a heat advisory...

Chicago police SWAT officers swarmed a home in the 4300 block of South Lake Park Avenue on Tuesday afternoon after a person barricaded themselves inside, triggering a tense standoff that shut down part of the Kenwood block. Ambulances also staged nearby as the scene unfolded, though no injuries had been reported in con

GREEN BAY (WLUK) – Jessica Wright was sentenced Tuesday to 14 years in prison, in the latest sentencing for a Green Bay-to-Chicago drug ring. Wright, 46, previously pleaded guilty to six counts, including delivery of fentanyl and cocaine. She was also placed on extended supervision for six years by Judge Donald Zuidmul