Investigations

A new documentary from NBC Chicago and NBC 5 Investigates follows the twists and turns of the case with exclusive interviews and details that upend previous theories about Timmothy Pitzen’s whereabouts.

For over a year, NBC 5 Investigates has been reporting on the shocking number of hit-and-run crashes across Chicago: more than 31,000 so far this year, killing 25 people and injuring over 4,100 others. Now, NBC 5 is taking multiple agencies to court over public records requests that have been denied.

After the terrifying mass shooting at Highland Park’s Fourth of July parade, many noted the irony that the incident occurred in one of the few cities in Illinois where assault weapons are banned by local law. But few have noted that today, no other Illinois community can put such an ordinance on the books, barred from doing so by a...

Just months after the deadly mass shooting at Highland Park’s Fourth of July parade, a survivor is sharing her story as the city’s assault weapons ban – which previously survived a challenge all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court – faces yet another legal battle.

Chicago police officers accused of misconduct can spend years in limbo, many off the streets but still getting paid, as their cases make their way through the city’s investigatory process.

The attorney charged with monitoring reform in the Chicago Police Department has pointedly noted how departmental staffing is affecting those reform efforts. It’s a concern which was also raised this summer by the chief of CPD’s Office of Constitutional Policing and Reform.

According to the most recent statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, one in every six adults 65 or older has lost all of his or her teeth. It’s twice as likely to happen to senior citizens who suffer from emphysema, heart disease or who have a history of strokes, from NBC 5 Investigates.

The former president of two Chicago music venues, who pleaded guilty to secretly videotaping women in the nude, is now facing more allegations in a civil suit.

NBC 5 Investigates analyzed local sleep data, drilling down to every zip code in the greater Chicago area, including northwest Indiana and southeast Wisconsin.

Documents obtained by NBC 5 Investigates show taxpayers are on the hook for $640 million for the renovation of Soldier Field, twenty years later.

NBC 5 Investigates found hundreds of poll workers resigned in the days leading up to Chicago’s primary day election this year, leading to some precincts opening late or not at all. Could it happen again? Mary Ann Ahern has the details.

NBC 5 Investigates found hundreds of poll workers resigned in the days leading up to Chicago’s primary day election this year, leading to some precincts opening late or not at all. Could it happen again?