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Following a nearly seven-month investigation, a 36-year-old man was arrested at 5 p.m. Wednesday, July 15, in connection with two separate incidents on Dec. 28, 2025, in which women reported being robbed after returning to their Northwest Side homes from shopping, according to Chicago police. The suspect, who was ident

Music has taken Sam Scarnavack from the familiar streets of Palos Heights to some of the biggest stages in the country. The recent Berklee College of Music graduate and Palos Heights native recently performed as the bassist for singer-songwriter Nico Welsh at the Minnesota Yacht Club Festival, a major U.S. music festiv

When we last checked in on purported Tren de Aragua gang member Jose Vasquez Hernandez, he was on top of the world. Despite being in the country illegally and being caught red-handed selling guns to an undercover ATF agent, we reported on June 30 that a Cook County judge handed him a sentence requiring him to serve abs

Attorney Ben Crump announced preliminary findings from an independent autopsy in the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells during a Wednesday morning news conference in Chicago. The announcement comes as Rev. Al Sharpton is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case. Authoritie

WAUSAU — A Chicago man was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for his role in a scam that drained more than $135,000 from an elderly Marathon County woman’s savings. Marathon County Circuit Judge Mike Moran sentenced Tao Wu, 37, on July 20 to 7 1/2 years for conspiracy to commit theft of movable property exceeding $100

An interaction caught on camera has highlighted a potential scam that has cost Chicago residents thousands of dollars. For months, NBC 5 Responds has been warning about tap-to-pay scams happening around Chicago. Now, several people reported being approached in a similar scheme. A city resident, identified in this story

(The Center Square) – Consumers in six Illinois counties will be soon be paying higher sales taxes. Transit funding legislation signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker last December provided for the 0.25% increase to take effect on Aug. 1 in Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will counties. The tax hike is projected to generat

Cook County has paid $112M in refunds but 72,652 claims remain as software defects block bulk payouts, so refunds go out in small batches.

CHICAGO (WGN) — In July 2004, Millennium Park opened and inspired Chicago while dazzling the world. Instantly hailed as a masterpiece, it is perhaps the city’s last truly transformative civic achievement — a public and cultural space of the highest artistic standards open and free to all, appealing to residents and tou

Brookfield police on July 12 cited a 40-year-old Bensenville man for driving without a license after his car struck another car. Around 1 p.m., an officer responded to the intersection of Ogden and Prairie avenues on a report of a car crash without injuries or airbag deployment. The officer met the parties of both vehi