Lincoln Park

After a weekend search, a Chicago photographer found the couple he caught in a drone photo standing together under a statue in Lincoln Park last week. While trying to capture picture of the sunset, photographer Antoine Tissier captured two people standing under the Ulysses S. Grant Monument with his drone camera. Tissier posted the photo on Instagram, captioning it, “unexpected…

A new drive-through haunted house will be coming to Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood just in time for Halloween. Replay Lincoln Park’s “Highway of Horror” will start scaring Chicagoans Oct. 15 and will run Thursday through Sunday 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. until Nov. 1. The 90-minute drive-through haunted house is in the empty lot at 645 W. Madison St., unlike…

Tickets are now on sale for Lincoln Park Zoo’s 26th annual ZooLights, returning this year as a ticketed event. ZooLights tickets are $5 per person. All ages must have a ticket to enter the event. The annual event will run from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Nov. 21-23, 25, 27-30, Dec. 2, 4-8, 11-16, 18-20, 22-23, 26-28, 30-31, and…

Lincoln Park Zoo’s 26th annual ZooLights will return this year as a ticketed event, the Chicago zoo announced. “Despite the loss of revenue this year brought on by the pandemic, we couldn’t fathom a Chicago winter without the joy of ZooLights,” said Zoo Director Megan Ross, Ph.D, in a statement. ZooLights tickets are $5 per person and go on...

Three minors were arrested after allegedly punching and robbing a woman Friday in Lincoln Park on the North Side. The 23-year-old was walking shortly before 10:30 p.m. in the 2000 block of North Sheffield Avenue when the three boys approached and tried to grab her purse, Chicago police said. When they were unsuccessful, they punched the woman in the face…

A teenage boy was hit by a car Thursday while riding a bicycle on Lake Shore Drive in Lincoln Park on the North Side. The 17-year-old was riding the bike north in the southbound lanes about 11:30 p.m. when he collided with a southbound Toyota Solara in the 1700 block of North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago police said. The teen…

Father Pfleger talks to NBC Chicago after a night of looting and chaos erupted early Monday morning in Chicago.

Video from NBC Sky 5 shows damage and the aftermath of looting that broke out overnight at a Best Buy and surrounding businesses in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood.

Police are asking for the public’s help identifying the person who robbed a 7-Eleven store at knifepoint last week in Lincoln Park on the North Side. He entered a store at 1:52 a.m. July 3 in the 2600 block of North Clark Street and demanded money while armed with a knife, police said. The 7-Eleven is located at 2619 N….

Police are warning residents about a series of robberies that occurred on CTA trains or platforms last week throughout the Near North Side of Chicago. In each case, two to five young men approached the victims and demanded their property. If the victim refused, the offenders would physically attack and take their belongings and run off, according to a community…

Protesters calling for the removal of a D.C. statue of President Abraham Lincoln and a freed Black man are expected to hold a rally near the statue Friday evening.

Sloane Demetriou is spending her time in quarantine in the kitchen. The Lincoln Park teen is whipping up a favorite family sweet treat and selling it online, but her cookie dough is more than dessert. It’s raising money to fight racial injustice. “Each week I do a new flavor, as well as the most popular flavor from the prior...

A Lincoln Park teen is whipping up a favorite family sweet treat and selling it online, but her cookie dough is more than dessert. It’s raising money to fight racial injustice. NBC 5’s Kate Chappell reports.

Shawn Sloan will start playing for the University of Illinois wheelchair basketball team this fall despite being diagnosed with Cerebral palsy as a toddler, and NBC 5’s Mike Berman has his story.

A 21-year-old man was shot Saturday in Lincoln Park on the North Side. He was the back-seat passenger in a vehicle about 11:50 p.m. in the 2300 block of North Lake Shore Drive when someone in a dark-colored Honda Pilot fired shots, Chicago police said. The man was hit in the neck, and he was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical…

A man was shot at a party Saturday in Lincoln Park on the North Side. The 24-year-old was at the party at 2:26 a.m. in the 2700 block of North Pine Grove Avenue when a male approached with a handgun and started shooting, according to Chicago police. The man was hit in the cheek, right arm and right leg, police…

Workers at a Chicago Taco Bell location held a caravan protest Tuesday to call attention to complaints they’ve made about the working conditions at the restaurant. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski has the story.

Workers at a Chicago Taco Bell location held a caravan protest Tuesday to call attention to complaints they’ve made about the working conditions at the restaurant. Workers at the Lincoln Park restaurant say they have filed at least two public health complaints about conditions they say pose an “imminent danger” after multiple employees tested positive for coronavirus. “They aren’t...

The City of Chicago announced Sunday that several city services would be up and running Monday, including the reopening of some parks and libraries across the city. NBC 5’s Susan Carlson reports.

The Chicago Park District announced Monday that it will offer limited summer programming, including day camps, at 148 parks as the city continues to reopen during the coronavirus pandemic.