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While a rainy month of May continues, the Chicago area will see a break in the wet weather just in time for Mother’s Day weekend, the NBC 5 Storm Team said.

After leaving downtown Chicago more than 10 years ago, a popular Mexican Independence Day celebration might be coming to Grant Park. NBC Chicago’s Christian Farr reports.

A Bronzeville cake shop is creating a buzz, regularly causing long lines before opening. It was a pandemic project that forced the owner to shrink the size of her bundt cakes, and now they fly out the door the day they’re made. Bundt cakes are pretty large, and during the pandemic, people wanted comfort, but not so much cake...

A Chicago restaurant was named on a ranking of steakhouses that have been most frequently cited on lists of the nation’s best, according to a recent study from Earthweb.

More than 10 years after the lights were turned off at Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch, the creators behind “The Office” will spearhead a new project set in the same universe, but at a new location.

Fans of the unmistakably Chicago-based FX hit show “The Bear” can rejoice, as the third season of the critically acclaimed show now officially has a premiere date.

A suburban mother is fighting for her life after she was shot by her neighbor in an alleged hate-fueled incident.

The National Weather Service’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) has issued a “severe geomagnetic storm watch,” the first such watch issued in nearly 20 years.

A new series of COVID variants, nicknamed the “FLiRT” variants, are being tracked by U.S. health officials, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The opioid crisis hit a mother in northwest Indiana particularly hard. Less than a year apart, she lost not one, but two adult children.

Claudette Soto, 44, has a lot to celebrate this Mother’s Day, after beating an aggressive form of breast cancer.

Illinois’ largest water park is now reportedly under new ownership ahead of the 2024 season, with bowling alley operator Bowlero entering the fold.