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A lockdown was put in place on Monday afternoon at Acero Charter School’s Veterans Memorial Campus following a report of an armed person and a shooting at a nearby restaurant, school officials and authorities said. In a statement, a school spokesperson said its security personnel witnessed two individuals chase someone down Kildare Avenue wit...

Child sexual abuse at Illinois juvenile detention centers was pervasive and systemic for decades, according to disturbing accounts in a lawsuit filed Monday by 95 men and women housed at the youth centers as children. The lawsuit details alleged incidents of abuse from 1996 to 2017, including gang rape, forced oral sex, beatings and groping of chil...

A central Illinois jury found a pediatric surgeon acted negligently in his treatment of a baby more than a decade ago and awarded the now-teenager more than $2 million, according to the law firm representing the teenager and her family. A Peoria County jury returned a verdict on Friday and found Dr. Mark Holterman, then a pediatric surgeon at OSF&#...

Officials are warning pet owners to “take special precautions” as a historic cicada emergence begins in the city and suburbs.

Chicago’s Field Museum has unveiled an incredible new fossil that displays the evolutionary link between birds and dinosaurs, with Illinois’ governor calling it the “world’s most important fossil.” That fossil, known as Archaeopteryx, dates back to the Jurassic Period, roaming the Earth 150 million years ago according to Field Museum scientists. Wi...

The magazine’s ‘New Ivies” consists of 10 public universities and 10 private colleges, and many of them are in the Midwest.

A Wisconsin man has been charged with attempted murder and aggravated battery, including strangulation, after what authorities said was a seemingly random attack on a woman walking her dog in a suburban park over the weekend. According to police, Raymond P. Link, 47, was with his unleashed dog in Petersen Park in McHenry Sunday when he suddenly att...

Chicago police are releasing more details about a series of incidents that impacted the city’s Cinco De Mayo parade on Sunday afternoon.

Fashion’s biggest night of the year takes place Monday evening.

Millions of birds are currently flying through the Great Plains and the Midwest as they make their way toward their spring breeding sites, and many of those birds are flying through Illinois this week.

Cicadas are officially emerging from the ground in several parts of the Chicago area as the start of a historic emergence begins. But where can you expect them most?

Chicago’s weather forecast Monday calls for a dry and sunny day, but rain and strong to severe storms are on the horizon, the NBC 5 Storm Team said.

Each year, thousands of birds are killed during migrations when they strike buildings and power lines, with experts urging the public to take steps to protect their health and safety.