Investigations

When state lawmakers in Springfield approved a spending plan in the wee hours of the morning this week, it included a $20 million injection of funds meant to shore up federal cuts that led to layoffs and forced rape crisis centers across Illinois to close.

An unprecedented investigation by NBC 5 Investigates found sexual assault cases in Chicago rarely led to an arrest and almost never led to a sex crime conviction with prison time, according to our review of more than 21,000 reported sex crime complaints in Chicago.

As part of NBC 5 Investigates and Telemundo Chicago’s six-month investigation, our team explored a racial disparity among victims and why these cases can be hard to prosecute.

NBC 5 Investigates spent six months reviewing police records and examining court documents to find out how often allegations involving sex are never charged, never tried or simply disappear.

NBC 5 Investigates conducted a six-month investigation that found sexual assault charges were never filed or were dropped in favor of non-sex charges time and time again. Find our extensive “Dismissed” series here. Trigger warning: the following investigative reports discuss issues of sexual violence. After it was over, she had a rape k...

Beginning May 20, NBC 5 Chicago & Telemundo Chicago will deliver a new, unprecedented series – “Dismissed” / “Buscando Justicia” – uncovering the startling details behind a six-month investigation on the minimal number of sexual assault arrests and convictions in the City of Chicago over the past six years.

The suspect charged with the first-degree murder of Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca faces additional charges of aggravated vehicular hijacking and possession of a stolen firearm, Chicago police announced Thursday afternoon.

When Chicago police officers discovered fellow off-duty Officer Luis Huesca shot early Sunday morning, the officer’s glasses and cell phone were found next to him – but his grey Toyota SUV wasn’t.

NBC 5 Investigates has learned that Chicago Police recovered Officer Luis Huesca’s 9 mm Glock service handgun on Friday at a residence in the city’s Morgan Park neighborhood.  NBC Chicago obtained both a Chicago police report and a proffer filed on Monday in Cook County Criminal Court. The reports stated officers spoke with a 20-year-old man ...

Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca’s death Sunday marked at least the eighth time a police officer in Illinois has died by gunfire since 2020, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page, a national non-profit that keeps data on law enforcement deaths.

As fellow officers, family and community members gathered Monday at the funeral for slain Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca, Superintendent Larry Snelling confirmed that officers had recovered Huesca’s service weapon and promised to “get justice” his family. “Our Detective Division, our officers are working, they have not stopped working since thi...

NBC 5 has filed two lawsuits to obtain records on an unsolved hit-and-run crash after the victim’s daughter says Chicago police have not updated her on the investigation in the 11 months since her father was killed.

A Chicago Public Schools employee has been removed from the classroom after students – including one as young as five years old – had their mouths duct taped during a classroom incident, NBC 5 Investigates has learned. The March 18 incident happened at Carter G. Woodson South Elementary School in Bronzeville. An internal investigation is underway w...