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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot issued a dire warning to residents Wednesday, particularly young people, to follow public health guidance as the city continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic.

Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady details the latest data on the coronavirus pandemic, how health officials use it to make decisions and at what point the city would potentially reimpose restrictions.

Watch the coronavirus discussion with Chicago doctors starting at 5:30 p.m. in the player above. The coronavirus pandemic has impacted every family and community in a variety of ways. As we navigate where Illinois stands in its reopening plan, NBC 5 wanted to examine more than just the numbers. So we brought together a panel of experts to help get&...

As a defensive lineman in the NFL, Israel Idonije didn’t let anything stand in his way of getting to the football. His relentless pursuit of quarterbacks and running backs helped him play more than a decade in the league, the majority of them with the Bears. These days, Idonije has traded sports for service, spending his time working to...

Mike Smith will ride Justify for a shot at the Triple Crown in Saturday’s Belmont Stakes. He’ll compete against nine other horse/jockey combinations — and all nine other jockeys will be men. In fact, over the past 48 years, more than 300 jockeys have ridden in Triple Crown races, and only six have been women. A female jockey hasn’t competed.....

The announcement was made on Wednesday.

The top headlines you need to know as you start your day on July 15, 2020.

NOTE: NBC Chicago will offer a live feed of the press conference beginning at 12 p.m. CST in the player above Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is set to give a coronavirus update Wednesday afternoon. The press conference is scheduled to take place at noon in Chicago. Details on what Pritzker will say weren’t immediately known. Wednesday’s br...

The White Sox still have a few things to work out before Opening Day.

Watch live as Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot delivers an update on “data related to COVID-19” Wednesday morning.

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Fourteen people were shot, two of them fatally, Tuesday in Chicago, according to police. The day’s most recent fatal shooting killed a man in Little Village on the Southwest Side. Officers responding to a call of shots fired found the man, who is thought to be in his 40s, unresponsive about 10:10 p.m. in the 3400 block of West 25th…

Federal officers have seized 450 fake iPhone cases during an inspection at a facility at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. The counterfeit cases were in a package that originated from Hong Kong and were headed to an Amazon facility in Joliet, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The cases are described as being of poor...