Investigations

NBC 5 Investigates is tracking cases at more than 100 colleges and universities – more than 50 in Illinois and the greater Chicago area, as well as more than 50 schools most attended by Illinois students.

NBC 5 Investigates’ Phil Rogers takes a look at the impact the closure of the state of Illinois’ casinos will have on their revenue, and tax revenue for the state as well.

Just a few years ago, a shooting on a Chicago-area expressway would be a major event, the type of tragedy that would lead every newscast in the city. Now they happen with such shocking frequency that road crews have standard procedures for blocking the highways so police can search for evidence. And drivers see them mostly as frustrating incidents ...

It started as an innocent email inquiry in August for wedding services to CSP Worldwide from a “Jane” living in the United Kingdom. “We’re all going through COVID, and we’re all dealing with life as it is. All of a suddenly I got a request through one of my company contact pages,” said Carey Smolensky, owner of CSP Worl...

On Monday, after promising NBC 5 for weeks that it would release its data on thousands of coronavirus outbreaks, it posted some information on its website. But the “data” turns out to be just some pie charts and general numbers; no details at all about the thousands of outbreaks it has been tracking. However, you can see the state&#8217...

NBC 5 Investigates’ Hilda Gutierrez has more on a group of CTA employees looking for city officials to help crack down on those riders who refuse to wear facial coverings amid the pandemic.

For the third time, NBC stations around America are tracking how quickly letters are sent to different areas of the country. NBC 5 Investigates’ Phil Rogers has more on what we found out as Election Day approaches.

In a high-tech command center on the second floor of the Area 2 police headquarters at Belmont and Western, Chicago police detectives are involved in a needle-in-a-haystack effort to identify thousands of people responsible for looting hundreds of stores in the downtown area. The assault on Michigan Avenue and other commercial areas on the Near Nor...

On the stump, in interviews, at just about every chance, President Trump warns that the voting already taking place in America is rife with fraud. “Every day they’re talking about ballots that are corrupt, that are fraudulent,” he told NBC’s Savannah Guthrie in a town hall Thursday night. There’s just one problem. Elec...

The U.S. Postal Service is continuing to suffer a summer slowdown. For the second month in a row, reporters at NBC Owned Television Stations, Telemundo and NBCLX tested the Postal Service by mailing hundreds of letters across the country. NBC 5 Investigates’ Phil Rogers has the results.

The call came into DuPage County’s 911 center shortly before 1 pm on Aug. 8. “I’m filing a missing person report,” said the caller Kristine Cefolia, the ex-wife of United Airlines executive Jake Cefolia. “Nobody’s seen him since Thursday and he hasn’t reached out to any family members at all.” On the surface, Jake Cefolia se...

Illinois officially pushed the “start” button Thursday on the vote-by-mail process for the 2020 elections, mailing out more than 1.8 million ballots to voters statewide. Last month, the Illinois State Board of Elections says the state’s 108 election authorities sent out some 6.4 million applications for the vote-by-mail process. A...

A well-intentioned mailer designed to remind Illinois voters of their right to apply for mail-in ballots has added fuel to the fire of an already fragile mail-in effort. Letters went out last week from Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White’s office to some 5.4 million voters. “Your local election authority had indicated that you have ...