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Since 2010, the City of Chicago has paid out more than $288 million in wrongful conviction settlements, NBC 5 Investigates found. So far, 39 people who Guevara helped put in prison for murder have been freed.

There’s a new effort to get historical landmark status for an industrial building in Chicago’s West Loop that once housed the Warehouse nightclub, where famed DJ and Producer Frankie Knuckles is widely credited with creating House music.

Crews returned to Chicago’s West Garfield Park neighborhood Tuesday to clean up and assess the damage after bricks came crashing through a family’s home near Pulaski and Washington.

Liam Hendriks announced he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in January.

The Illinois Supreme Court is weighing its decision after hearing oral arguments in connection to constitutional questions surrounding the state’s “SAFE-T Act,” which would eliminate the use of cash bail.

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus has been reimagined and reborn without animals as a high-octane family event with highwire tricks, soaring trapeze artists and bicycles leaping on trampolines.

Two teens killed in a sledding accident in Colorado that were students at Prairie Central High School in Fairbury, Ill. have been identified by officials.

A Michigan real estate listing is going viral after images revealed that the home’s unassuming exterior gives way to an unexpected transformation inside.

The Chicago area will see several rounds of rainfall in the coming days, but according to new guidance from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center, severe weather could pose a threat to the region as well.

Broadway in Chicago has announced their 2023 lineup, and it’s filled with big-name productions.

As U.S. cases of a dangerous, drug-resistant and potentially deadly fungus continue to spread rapidly, what does that mean for the Chicago area and should residents be concerned?

The Illinois State Fair will be back in 2023, and is slated to run from Aug. 10 through Aug. 20 in Springfield.

2023 is the year of concerts in Chicago — or so says the list of more than 40 major concerts and artists slated to come to the Windy City through the spring, summer and fall.