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Three people were injured in a head-on crash Saturday in West Garfield Park on the West Side. A Jeep was heading north in the southbound lanes when it hit a southbound Nissan Altima at 1:48 a.m. in the 300 block of North Pulaski Road, according to Chicago police. The Jeep then hit a light pole. The 36-year-old man driving the…

A 19-year-old woman was killed in a crash last week in northwest suburban Wood Dale. A motorcycle and vehicle collided about 11:30 a.m. May 2 at the intersection of Wood Dale Road and Elmhurst Street, killing Angel Marie Foerster, of River Grove, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. She was pronounced dead about 12 hours later at Lutheran General…

Authorities say portions of a Chicago expressway left icy by a wintry blast led to a pileup involving of dozens of vehicles and sent 14 people to hospitals

Video shows the scene where nearly 60 cars were involved in a massive pile-up on the Kennedy Expressway during snow in Chicago.

Two men died early Wednesday after their vehicle crashed into a tree in Montgomery, police said. The crash happened about 12:30 a.m. near Orchard and Rochester roads, Montgomery police said in a statement. The men, ages 19 and 20, were pronounced dead at the scene, police said. They were the only occupants of the vehicle. The Kane County coroner’s office…

Six people were hurt, including two children, Wednesday in a multiple-vehicle crash that spilled into a bus stop in Chicago Lawn. The four-car crash happened about 9:05 a.m. at 63rd Street and Western Avenue, according to Chicago police and fire departments. Three of the people hurt were waiting at a bus stop, according to preliminary information from police. The two…

An SUV flipped over a concrete median and nearly fell into Lake Michigan Wednesday in the Gold Coast. The Chevrolet Trailblazer was northbound about 10:35 p.m. in the 800 block of North Lake Shore Drive when the crash occurred, Chicago police said. The Chevy tried to change lanes but swerved out of control after seeing a car in the lane…

Authorities believe alcohol was a factor in a Sunday motorcycle crash that injured two Illinois residents, one of them fatally, in southwest Wisconsin. The male operator of the motorcycle lost control around a curve and crashed into a ditch in Trevor, Wisconsin, ejecting him and his passenger, the Kenosha County sheriff’s department said in a statement. Paramedics responded about 8 p.m. in the...

Southbound lanes on I-57 were closed Friday after a fatal crash in south suburban Calumet Park.

NBC Sky 5 flew over the scene of a fiery crash on I-57 near Calumet Park that sent one car off the expressway and onto the train tracks below, killing one person.

A man was killed and another seriously injured Thursday while refilling the gas tank of a relative’s car on I-57 in the south suburbs, police say. A woman’s car ran out of gas Thursday morning on the ramp from northbound I-57 to westbound I-80, Illinois State Police said. She called her relatives, who met her on the expressway shoulder...

A CTA bus crashed into a fence and damaged five CPD cars early Thursday in Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood. A 46-year-old driver of a CTA bus was driving around 4:48 a.m. southbound on Kedzie and making an eastbound turn on Harrison when she lost control and struck the parking lot fence, according to police. The bus also struck five unoccupied...

At the finish line, Denny Hamlin made history with a second straight Daytona 500 victory in an overtime photo finish over Ryan Blaney, a celebration that quickly became muted as word of Newman’s wreck spread.

A 52-year-old man was critically injured in a crash Monday in north suburban Waukegan Township. Officers were called to a single-vehicle crash about 12:50 p.m. at Green Bay Road and Keith Avenue, the Lake County sheriff’s office said. Investigators determined a 2006 Ford Econoline was northbound on Green Bay when the driver crossed into southbound traffic, struck a curb, a…

Three children, including one as young as 10, have been charged with speeding in a stolen vehicle Saturday and striking several cars, including a police officer’s, in the South Chicago neighborhood. A 13-year-old boy faces three felony counts of aggravated assaulted with a vehicle, a felony count of possession of a stolen vehicle and a misdemeanor count of resisting an…

A person was seriously injured Tuesday morning in a crash involving an ambulance on I-355 near southwest suburban Homer Glen. About 6 a.m., a Superior private ambulance traveling south on I-355 at milepost 4.5, near 159th Street, crossed over the right shoulder and struck a stopped Volkswagen Passat, Illinois State Police said in a statement. The ambulance rolled over on…

Maintenance documents indicate the helicopter that crashed in Calabasas, California last week, killing nine people including basketball star Kobe Bryant and his daughter, was once equipped with a cockpit voice recorder, which might have shed light on the flight’s final moments, but Island Express, the company that bought the helicopter from the State of Illinois, appears to have removed...

The death of Illinois native John Altobelli, the baseball coach killed along with his wife and daughter in the helicopter crash that also took the lives of Kobe Bryant and his daughter, has left many in his hometown stunned. The 56-year-old Altobelli, his wife, Keri, and daughter, Alyssa, who was about 13 and played on the same basketball team as Bryant’s...

The death of Illinois native John Altobelli, the baseball coach killed along with his wife and daughter in the helicopter crash that also took the lives of Kobe Bryant and his daughter, has left many in his hometown stunned. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup reports.

Flight track information for the aircraft sheds new light on the final moments of the flight as family and fans of those who perished wonder what went wrong. NBC 5 Investigates’ Chris Coffey has the story.