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A pop-up restaurant from the group behind Chicago’s most awarded restaurant became the latest to temporarily close its doors after a staffer tested positive for coronavirus. Acclaimed chef Grant Achatz announced Saturday that the Alinea in Residence rooftop pop-up was closed Friday after an employee tested positive for coronavirus. “The employee had not worked in days due to scheduling...

Another Chicago restaurant on the city’s North Side has temporarily closed after announcing an employee tested positive for coronavirus over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Replay Beer & Bourbon in the city’s Andersonville neighborhood said a member of their waitstaff notified them Saturday night that they had tested positive for the virus despite showing no symptoms. The employee...

We asked infection prevention experts from Northwestern Medicine to weigh in on some questions. These answers are from nurse Heather Voss, a program director of epidemiology and infection prevention at Northwestern Medicine, as well as her colleagues in infection prevention and infectious disease specialist Dr. Irfan Hafiz.

Two Chicago restaurants have closed their doors following coronavirus exposure as dining resumed in limited fashion in the city during the pandemic. Fork in the city’s Lincoln Square neighborhood became the latest to shut its doors temporarily, announcing Monday that the restaurant “had exposure to Covid-19.” “The safety of our guests and staff is our top priority so out...

Starting next Friday, restaurants across Chicago will be able to open for indoor dining with some restrictions. NBC 5’s Trina Orlando reports.

Brenda Betteridge closes her eyes, takes a breath, and pulls the trigger. She nails the gunman. “One more. Put it in the head,” a police officer instructed her, as she fired away at the cardboard prop representing a gunman. Betteridge is one of the dozens of teachers and other school administrators undergoing active shooting training with the Utah County Sheriff’s...

An Ohio high school student’s prom proposal sign referencing black people picking cotton has been condemned by school officials as hurtful and inappropriate.

Authorities were unable to find the driver of a truck that was left hanging over the Chicago River Monday night after crashing on a bridge in the South Side Bridgeport neighborhood.

A Utah man died after crashing a plane into his own home. Police say Duane Youd was arrested before the crash for a domestic dispute with his wife.

A Utah man flew a small plane into his own house early Monday just hours after he had been arrested for assaulting his wife in a nearby canyon where the couple went to talk over their problems, authorities said. The pilot, Duane Youd, died. His wife and a child who were in the home survived despite the front part the...

Style expert Francesco Bilotto shares his tips for a stylish and affordable Mother’s Day.

Dramatic video shows 25-year-old Christopher Clay Rudd throwing himself from the second floor of the Spanish Fork, Utah, courthouse after running handcuffed from the courtroom. Rudd told police he was trying to harm himself, according to authorities.

A storm that’s bringing three days of rain is fueled by subtropical moisture and moving slowly into the region, raising the threat of flash flooding and debris flows as mandatory evacuations were ordered in areas near burn scars.

Longtime NBA agent Dan Fegan died in a car crash Sunday. He was 56. The Colorado State Patrol says Fegan was driving an SUV when he tried to merge onto a highway and was broadsided by a commuter bus near Aspen, which is about 180 miles west of Denver. Colorado State Trooper Gabe Easton told the Aspen Times the SUV’s...

A Maine woman who prepared a salad says she realized after a couple of bites her fork was stuck in a 3-inch lizard, minus the tail.

NBCUniversal and the Arbor Day Foundation are partnering for the eighth year in a row for the annual “Share a Tree” campaign. The campaign, formerly known as GIF’t A Tree, is aimed part of NBCUNiversal’s sustainability initiative and is aimed at planting new trees.

A man becomes trapped in high water after driving into high water to help a woman trapped in high water in Dallas Wednesday morning.