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A suburban family is shaken after police say a person broke into their home and tossed an explosive device into a young boy’s room, which then exploded and caused severe damage to the residence.    According to Evanston police, officers responded to a home in the 1400 block of Brown Avenue at approximately 11:30 p.m. Tuesday night. Residents were...

A suburban family is shaken after police say a person broke into their home and tossed an explosive device into a young boy’s room, which then exploded and caused severe damage to the residence. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey reports.

Police in suburban Skokie are thanking community members after an 11-year-old boy was found after being reported missing on Thursday afternoon. Search teams scoured the area in and around Skokie North Shore Channel Park on Thursday searching for Noah Price. The boy, who is on the nonverbal autism spectrum, was reported missing just before 5 p.m. A witness reported that…

Police in suburban Evanston say they have arrested a man who allegedly tried to sexually assault a Northwestern University student early Tuesday morning before being stopped by a group of eyewitnesses. According to authorities, Devonte Huggins, 20, was arrested Tuesday afternoon in suburban Glencoe. He faces one felony count of attempted aggravated criminal sexual assault and one felony count of…

An Evanston man has filed a federal lawsuit against the city and two police officers for allegedly falsely arresting him and using excessive force during a June 2018 incident. According to Ronald Louden, he was grilling with friends in a parking lot in Evanston when he says several members of the city’s neighborhood enforcement team approached him. “Do you live…

An Evanston man has filed a federal lawsuit against the city and two police officers for allegedly falsely arresting him and using excessive force during a June 2018 incident. NBC 5’s Christian Farr has the story.

Three men were shot, two of them fatally, Friday afternoon in north suburban Evanston, about a block from Evanston Township High School.

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Three people were killed and four people suffered injuries when a man went on a shooting rampage Saturday in Chicago and Evanston.

A 32-year-old man was shot and killed by police after he allegedly shot seven people in a series of attacks Saturday, killing three of them. NBC 5’s Lisa Chavarria has all the latest details.

Three victims were killed and at least four others were injured in a shooting rampage that began in Chicago Saturday and ended when police in Evanston shot and killed the suspect during an exchange of gunfire, authorities said. The suspect was identified as Jason Nightengale, 32, Chicago Police Department Superintendent David Brown said. In the first incident, at approximately 1:50…

A security guard and four other people were killed and two others were injured in a shooting rampage that began in Chicago and ended when police in Evanston fatally shot the suspect during a shootout, authorities confirmed. At approximately 5:30 p.m., officers were called to CVS Pharmacy in the 100 block of Asbury Avenue for the report of a shooting….

Evanston police say one person was arrested and at least one officer was injured after a group of approximately 150 protesters marched through downtown Saturday night. According to authorities, pepper spray was deployed after individuals in the crowd began to throw rocks and bricks at police officers, while others shot fireworks at officers during the incident. “Some protesters threw bricks…

A 38-year-old man is facing charges, and a 17-year-old Arizona girl has been reunited with her mother after she was reported missing earlier this week. Ke’Mya Smith of Phoenix first disappeared over the weekend and was later found, but then she disappeared again on Monday, according to authorities. The girl allegedly got on a Greyhound bus and traveled to...

A teacher was robbed at gunpoint Thursday evening outside of Nichols Middle School in north suburban Evanston. The 31-year-old man was near Lee Street and Elmwood Avenue when a male approached and grabbed him, showing a gun and saying, “Give me your wallet,” according to Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew. He took the man’s cellphone and wallet before putting...

According to police, a 20-year-old man was standing on the Red Line platform at the Howard station at approximately 12:30 p.m. when a man walked up to him and opened fire, striking the victim multiple times. The man was taken to St. Francis Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. The alleged shooter fled the station on foot, and has…

A lawyer is demanding police release a suspect’s name a month after a 12-year-old girl reported that she was attacked at an Evanston middle school.

Evanston police are investigating a report that a seventh grade student was allegedly sexually assaulted by a custodian in the girl’s bathroom of a middle school, but an attorney for the girl’s family wants to know why the custodian has not been taken into custody.

Parents allege that their daughter was sexually assaulted by a custodian at a suburban school earlier this month, but there have been no arrests so far. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup has the story.