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Earlier this week, a Chicago man’s backpack was stolen from inside his SUV in the Lake View neighborhood. It’s not the backpack, but what was inside that has Anthony Sullivan pleading for its return. “In the bag was a lot of my personal life items,” he said. “Things I was carrying with me to help me grieve my brother’s...

A North Side Chicago parish is Making a Difference, partnering with a nearby food pantry to serve more food to people in the neighborhood. The demand has increased exponential during the pandemic. NBC 5’s LeeAnn Trotter reports.

Since 1929, the iconic Music Box Theatre on Southport Avenue in Chicago’s Lake View neighborhood has been showing off a unique experience for generations. “The idea right now is to just stay afloat. Stay in business,” said Music Box Theatre general manager, Ryan Oestreich. Since Chicago placed capacity limits on businesses, the theater has laid off more than half of its...

Chicago police are asking for help identifying a man wanted in connection with an aggravated robbery Monday in Lake View on the North Side. About 12:22 p.m., a 35-year-old woman was in an alley in the 1600 block of West Diversey Parkway, when she was allegedly approached by a man who struck her, snatched her belongings, then fled west on…

A father confronted his 21-year-old son and stabbed him to death in the bathroom of his Lake View home because “he could not deal with” his son’s drug use, prosecutors say. The father hugged his son after stabbing him in the neck Friday, and laid him on the floor before calling his ex-wife and then authorities to confess to...

A man is in custody Friday after he allegedly stabbed a man to death in Lake View and called authorities to report it, police say. The stabbing, which police say is possibly domestic-related, happened about 11:45 a.m. in the 800 block of West Dakin Street, Chicago police said. A 44-year-old man called 911 to report that he had just killed…

The family of a man who died at a Jewel-Osco store in Lake View after being detained by security for allegedly shoplifting, has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the company. At approximately 6:45 p.m. on Nov. 20, Chicago police officers were called to the Jewel-Osco on North Broadway, and found Eugenio Escriba Guzman, who was unresponsive. Guzman was pronounced dead…

Community members in Chicago’s Lake View neighborhood gathered Saturday evening to remember a man who was found unresponsive after being detained for shoplifting at a Jewel-Osco store and to demand answers in his death.  At approximately 6:45 p.m. on Nov. 20, Chicago police officers were called to the Jewel-Osco on North Broadway, and found Eugenio Escriba Guzman, 56, who was…