LIsa Balde

President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, is accusing Trump of being a “racist,” citing in part a comment the president made during a trip to Chicago.

A Michigan-based bar and restaurant chain plans to change the name of its “Crack Fries” in January to distance itself from a word associated with the drug epidemic.

The grand opening of a new Ikea store just over the border in Wisconsin, had a massive turnout Wednesday.

Ikea announced its Oak Creek store opening day plans and promotions for Wednesday.

While opening day plans and promotions are still forthcoming, Ikea noted in a statement that customers can begin lining up at 5 a.m. that day.

Target has recalled 30,000 pairs of kids’ skinny jeans over concerns that the small metal stars at the bottom have been known to come off and cut skin.

The Chicago area can expect a wetter winter this year, but temperature predictions aren’t quite as clear, national forecasters said.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday forecast higher-than-average precipitation for northeastern Illinois and many other northern states.

Kalee Dionne has the full weekend forecast for the Chicago area.

The family of a north suburban Uber driver, allegedly killed by a 16-year-old girl with a machete last month, has filed a lawsuit against Wal-Mart for letting her leave the store without paying for the weapons.

Some say Illinois can’t afford to cut its media service that transmits state news, even though it costs $3 million a year as the state is in financial turmoil.

Illinois lawmakers adjourned Wednesday night once again failing to end the state’s historic budget stalemate, leaving thousands of residents in a financial crisis. Emily Florez reports.

The man charged with the “vicious and brutal” murder of a woman in her Hinsdale home earlier this month pawned her wedding rings after the attack, prosecutors said.

“It was a violent, horrific attack on a completely innocent victim who had every right to feel safe in her own home,” DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin told reporters.

As the city of Chicago looks for ways to fill a nearly $600 million hole to fund Chicago Public Schools, a new setback has been revealed for Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

As they go back and forth over funding for Chicago Public Schools, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Governor Bruce Rauner focused on common ground as they helped cut the ribbon on a new plant on Chicago’s Southeast Side. NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.

In the wake of Chicago’s latest rash of gun violence, including a gunman opening fire at a South Side restaurant, the city’s police chief told reporters, “as a Chicagoan, I’m angry and sick.”

An unsuspecting group of tourists on a Los Angeles sightseeing tour took a pitstop of a lifetime Sunday night at the Academy Awards thanks to a prank instigated by host Jimmy Kimmel.

A 20-year-old man was shot in the head while looking for a place to park a car in the Belmont Central neighborhood early Friday on the Northwest Side.