Investigations

NBC 5 Investigates has found that coronavirus cases are currently rising — or have recently peaked at their highest rates — in the counties of more than 350 four-year colleges and universities most-attended by Illinois freshmen. Use this chart to find yours.

While most stay home to stay safe, doctors are scared for children whose homes are not havens.

Authorities in Illinois say an Iowa man charged in 1990s serial killings “does not appear to have been involved” in the unsolved 1992 slaying of a college student

State Rep. John Cabello’s home county has seen a steep rise in new coronavirus cases and deaths in the last part of April. New testing in his community also does not meet national standards, NBC 5 Investigates has found.

As of March 20, NBC5 Investigates has tracked a total of 435 confirmed cases of coronavirus throughout the greater Chicago area, including all of Illinois, southeast Wisconsin, northwest Indiana and southwest Michigan.

An NBC Bay Area investigation has discovered tens of thousands of U.S. residents, adopted as infants from foreign countries, and raised in the United States, now face possible deportation – because they are technically not citizens.

Nationwide, most people getting tested for coronavirus are people whose symptoms are severe or who are at risk for complications. There are many others here who can’t get tested — even though they may be walking around with the virus and not know it — because the test kits are still in such short supply. And that may be hiding...

Just one day after NBC 5 began asking questions about why the City of Chicago had issued no precautions or guidelines to its employees concerning the coronavirus, the city provided some guidelines Wednesday in a letter signed personally by Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

More than two years after a Chicago Police Department SUV mysteriously crashed in a ditch on the South Side, city officials continue to fight the release of all records relating to the crash.