A tragic crash unfolded early Friday in northwest Indiana when a driver slammed into the back of a stopped semi-truck on a northwest Indiana interstate, killing a 19-year-old woman and two children.

A former member of a school board in the western suburbs has been charged with 10 felony offenses in connection with the ...

An investigation was underway after an unresponsive man was pulled from Lake Michigan at Oak Street Beach on Friday afternoon ...

A minor was taken into custody following a stabbing in unincorporated McHenry on Thursday night, authorities said.

Friday was marked by sunshine, comfortable conditions and no immediate threat of severe weather in the Chicago area. But ...

Editor's Note: The video in the above player is from a previous report before authorities identified two people are believed to have been shot. Gunfire was exchanged in an Aurora parking lot Friday ...

In recent days, the justices have sided with Republicans in Alabama and Louisiana who hope to redo their congressional maps ...

A man who was shot and killed while driving for Uber on Chicago’s West Side was laid to rest on Friday. Jassen Cho, 38, and his 18-year-old passenger were killed in a drive-by shooting in Garfield ...

A baby girl was fatally stabbed Friday morning and a suspect who leaped from a window on Chicago's Southwest Side to escape is in custody. The baby was inside a home in the 3000 block of West 59th ...

An American Eel was recently caught in the Chicago River, raising eyebrows and questions as to how the animal made its way to ...

NBC 5 Investigates has received video of African American students at a South Side high school performing a re-enactment of a ...

The Cook County Sheriff’s Office is stepping up enforcement efforts against a common infraction on Chicago-area expressways.