NBC 5 Investigates found that Chateau Nursing & Rehab Center in Willowbrook, where 22 people have tested positive for coronavirus, was rated below average (2 out of 5 stars) by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The health inspection rating is based on the CMS’ most recent health inspection survey ...

A Chicago attorney is asking the United States Department of Justice to launch a formal investigation into the treatment of special needs children in Chicago Public Schools. In a letter written Tuesday to Attorney General William Barr, attorney Jon Erickson alleges that CPS has a “widespread policy and practice of allowing its teachers and employee...

Governor J.B. Pritzker announced new staffing procedures and visitor restrictions Wednesday at state-run nursing homes as the coronavirus spreads. “We are very, very concerned about our senior facilities,” Pritzker said at a morning news conference with local leaders and health officials. Pritzker said healthcare workers who work at sta...

The Cook County Clerk’s Office is looking for more election judges ahead of Tuesday’s primary. Additional judges are needed in Orland, Lyons, Leyden, Maine, Elk Grove, Wheeling, Schaumburg and Northfield townships, according to James Scalzitti, Director of Communications for the Cook County Clerk’s Office. Poll workers can come fr...

After complaints by some employees of a slow response, the city of Chicago continues to take steps designed to help with prevention of the coronavirus. Earlier this week, just one day after NBC 5 started asking questions about why the city had not communicated with employees about coronavirus precautions, Mayor Lori Lightfoot sent a citywide letter...

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.

A prime West Loop retail site sits empty, with just a few vestiges of its former longtime incarnation as a popular day care site. Now, some parents are asking questions about reports that the site is under consideration as a marijuana dispensary, and whether that played a role in the sudden conversion. “Come February 19th, we got a letter and...

Cook County Judge Jackie Portman-Brown has been reassigned to administrative duty until further notice after a Wednesday meeting by the Executive Committee of the Circuit Court of Cook County reviewed security camera footage which showed the Judge placing a child in a holding lock up cell at the county courthouse. The judge will also be reported to...

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.

NBC 5 Investigates has new details about the man accused of opening fire at Milwaukee’s Molson Coors facility Wednesday, killing five of his coworkers. Phil Rogers has the story.

Railroad crews in East Chicago, Indiana, spent Thursday relocating several train cars to a safe area after a CSX train hauling crude oil derailed Wednesday evening. The cause of the derailment is under investigation.  Several of the 18 tank cars that derailed look like they took a beating.  However, none of the crude oil leaked, there wer...

A Cook County judge has been reassigned pending an investigation into allegations that she put a young girl into lockup at the Cook County Criminal Courthouse last week. Through a Freedom of Information Act request, NBC 5 Investigates obtained startling video showing the moment the girl was escorted through an office at the courthouse and into a ce...

NBC 5 Investigates has been following the case of Duane Raible, a Pennsylvania man who was alone in his Chicago hotel room last October when he suffered a severe stroke. He couldn’t reach the hotel phone from his bed, so he called Chicago 911 on his cell phone. 911 operators would not send help unless Raible gave them the actual…...