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Police in north suburban Glenview have launched a search for the individual who tried to kidnap a girl just as she got off a school bus Monday afternoon, according to law enforcement.

A mother is demanding action to reduce crime in Chicago after her teenage daughter was attacked by armed robbers while working at a Burger King in the Hegewisch neighborhood.

A mother is demanding action to reduce crime in Chicago after her teenage daughter was attacked by armed robbers while working at a Burger King in the Hegewisch neighborhood. NBC 5’s Vi Nguyen reports.

There’s a string of armed robberies targeting street vendors in Pilsen. The video shows two armed men jumping out of a car and robbing a street vendor at gunpoint.

The 28-year-old graduate student accused of killing four Idaho college students was denied bail in his first court appearance Thursday.

A security camera captured a group of burglars breaking-in through the front door of a Lincoln Park consignment shop for a smash-and-grab theft.

Wheaton Police are seeking surveillance video relating to the death of a woman found lying on the road Monday night after a possible hit-and-run collision. Authorities responded to the 900 block of Roosevelt Road after receiving a 911 call from a motorist. Paige M. Donahue, a 31-year-old Wheaton resident, suffered severe traumatic injuries and was pronounced dead after being transported…

Chicago Police are investigating two store burglaries on the Magnificent Mile this week, with one of the thefts occurring on Christmas morning.

Up to 19 vehicles were damaged early Wednesday morning on a street in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood, police said.

The Cook County Board approved $11.4 million Thursday in next year’s budget to get a helicopter, according sheriff Thomas Dart, who said the money was carried over from funds that weren’t spent in the 2022 budget.

A fast food worker said she is going to lose an eye after she was attacked in Antioch.

In one of those cases, an undergraduate student reported that they were sexually assaulted in a residence hall on Oct. 28 after having one of those drinks at a party, officials say.

The University of Chicago is investigating after several students said their drinks were spiked at parties, NBC 5’s Natalie Martinez reports.

The University of Chicago has received multiple reports in which undergraduates say they suspect their drinks were spiked at parties.

Decades-old crimes are being solved using genetic genealogy. Here’s what you need to know.

Police say they have identified the boy whose body was found in April in a Las Vegas-themed suitcase in rural Indiana, as well as two suspects in his death.

After several recent and brazen carjackings in Chicago — including one incident captured on video that took place in broad daylight on the Dan Ryan Expressway — the Cook County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday is expected to announce an “anti-carjacking initiative” meant to crackdown on the crimes. Lauren Petty has more.

In 2021 alone, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office confirms that Chicago saw 2,098 incidents of vehicular hijacking.

After a video of a brazen carjacking on the Dan Ryan Expressway went viral, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office is set to announce an expansion to an anti-carjacking initiative that began last year, NBC 5’s Natalie Martinez reports.

After a brazen carjacking-turned-crash in broad daylight on the Dan Ryan Expressway was captured in a viral video, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office is slated to announce a renewed crackdown on carjacking on Thursday morning.