Kenosha

The city of Kenosha has declared a state of emergency, setting a curfew Sunday evening amid a large-scale demonstration calling for change after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and acts of civil unrest. Kenosha police tweeted Sunday that the emergency curfew begins at 8:30 p.m., asking residents to remain home or return home. “For the public’s safety...

A Wisconsin judge refused Friday to lower the bond of a man suspected of running an illegal operation to manufacture thousands of vaping cartridges filled with THC.

A former grade school principal in north suburban Zion has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage student a decade ago while he was a high school dean in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Curtiss Tolefree, Jr., who was principal at Beulah Park Elementary School in Zion, allegedly had sex with a student almost daily during her junior and senior years at the…

A Zion man was arrested Monday for allegedly selling cocaine in the north suburbs and Kenosha, Wisconsin.

People in Kenosha rallied together on Friday night to remember a cheerleader who was killed earlier this year, days after a school district decided to allow the memorial.

High school cheerleaders in Kenosha remembered a fellow cheerleader, who was shot and killed by her boyfriend, at a football game on Friday night. NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter reports. 

In a surprise reversal, a Kenosha school district now says it will allow a planned tribute for a 15-year-old girl who was shot and killed earlier this year to go forward.

Investigators haven’t been able to determine what caused an explosion at a Chicago-area silicone factory that killed four workers in May.

A memorial was planned to honor four men from Illinois and Wisconsin who died in a silicone plant explosion.

One week ago, a plant in suburban Waukegan exploded, killing four people. Friday, friends and family gathered in front of the charred remains of the buidling to share in their heartbreak and honor the victims. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup has the story.

The 15-year-old suspect in a fatal shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, was taken into custody early Friday, according to police.

A 16-year-old girl is dead and a 39-year-old woman was hurt in a shooting at a Kenosha-residence on Thursday afternoon, and police are still searching for the suspect, according to authorities.

A suspect is on the loose after police say a 16-year-old girl was killed and a 39-year-old woman was hurt in a Kenosha shooting Thursday afternoon, according to police. Patrick Fazio reports.

A suburban Chicago car dealership has been shut down and stripped of its dealer license after customers reported the dealership failed to pay off trade-in loans, putting those customers’ credit at risk.

A 41-year-old woman from Minnesota was arrested for drunk driving Monday in west suburban Riverside, where officers discovered she had active warrants from three other states.

A correctional officer was charged with grabbing a food service employee’s buttocks last month at the Lake County Jail in Waukegan. On Jan. 24, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office was notified that 49-year-old Darin Chansky, of Kenosha, Wisconsin, made an “inappropriate sexual gesture” toward the woman last December while she was working at the jail at 20 S. County St….

Roundy’s Supermarkets Inc. is recalling about 16,000 pounds of chili and soup that may be contaminated with hard plastic.

Flooding has hammered the suburbs of Chicago in recent days, and Lincolnshire has seen some of the worst of the deluge as the Des Plaines River spills over its banks. NBC 5’s Kye Martin has more on the damaging floods.

Northern Illinois has been inundated with storms and historic flooding in recent days, but there has been no word or sighting of Governor Bruce Rauner following the deluge.