Northwest Side

The attorney representing a 15-year-old musician who was injured during a police shooting on Chicago’s Northwest Side in November following a robbery has released stunning, dramatic video of the series of events. NBC 5’s Chris hush reports

There could be a connection between several break-ins on Chicago’s Northwest Side after surveillance cameras captured a similar-looking van at two crime scenes. NBC 5’s Sandra Torres reports.

Residents in the Norwood Park neighborhood of Chicago are raising concerns about several recent incidents involving racist language and themes. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey has the story.

Police are warning residents about a series of robberies since last week by suspects posing as police officers in Albany Park, Belmont Central and Avondale on the Northwest Side. In each case, a man pulled up in a black vehicle, pointed a flashlight at the victim and demanded the person’s ID or wallet, according to a community alert from...

Residents in the Norwood Park neighborhood of Chicago are raising concerns about several recent incidents involving racist language and themes. James and Amy Lane show their support for Black Lives Matter and a peaceful co-existence in the world by displaying signs in their yard and window.  But this week they received a letter in the mail addressed not to...

Two people were shot Sunday in Dunning on the Northwest Side. The males were leaving a party at 12:43 a.m. in the 3400 block of North Oketo Avenue when two people approached, pulled out handguns and started shooting, according to Chicago police. One victim was grazed on his hip, while the other was shot in his abdomen, police said. Both...

Police are warning residents about a pair of robberies Wednesday at basketball courts in Albany Park and Norwood Park on the Northwest Side. In each case, two men approached a group of teenagers playing basketball, implied that they had a weapon and demanded the victims’ phones and other valuables, according to a community alert from Chicago police. In one case,…

Chicago police are warning residents of a string of catalytic converter thefts reported in June on the Northwest Side. In each incident someone driving a small, dark-colored sedan pulls up next to vehicles parked on residential streets and uses tools to remove the catalytic converter from under the vehicle, according to a community alert from Chicago police. The most targeted…

A woman is in critical condition after she was hit by a city truck while riding a bicycle in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood Tuesday morning. NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter has the latest details.

A man was arrested after barricading himself inside an apartment with a crossbow Thursday on the Northwest Side. Neighbors called police about 11:45 p.m. to report that the 60-year-old man was playing music loudly and pointed a crossbow at one of them in an apartment building in the 5100 block of North East River Road, Chicago police said. He was…

Two ATMs were damaged at bank drive-thrus on the Northwest Side less than an hour apart early this morning, accord to police. Three male suspects entered the drive-thru of a Bank of America, 7126 W. North Ave., in a moving truck at about 1 a.m., Chicago police said. They used a chain to pry open an ATM, but it’s unknown…

Two men were wounded in a shooting Saturday in Logan Square on the Northwest Side. The men, 27 and 25, were standing in an alley at 12:08 a.m. when someone shot at them from a gray SUV in the 1700 block of North Harding Avenue, according to Chicago police. The 25-year-old was hit in the back and leg and taken…

Someone broke into a storage facility in Chicago and pried open locks to at least 50 units, according to police. The manager of a storage facility in the 2300 block of North Harlem told police someone broke into multiple units on the property around 3 a.m. Tuesday. Police said the person broke through a fence and pried open locks on…

Someone broke into a storage facility in Chicago and pried open locks to at least 50 units, according to police. NBC 5’s Chris Hush reports.

Someone broke into a storage facility in Chicago and pried open locks to at least 50 units, according to police. Video shows the scene Tuesday morning.

A “roaring 20’s” themed Portillo’s will break ground in the next couple of months, the Chicago Tribune reports.

Plans for a massive development at the location of the last Sears store that closed in Chicago moved a step forward Tuesday, according to multiple reports.

A man threw a woman to the ground and stole her purse Thursday in an attack caught on video on Chicago’s Northwest Side, according to police.

A person is in custody after a man was found stabbed to death Tuesday in Irving Park on the Northwest Side. About 3:45 a.m., officers responded to the 3700 block of North Sacramento Avenue, and found Jasinto Ortiz, 38, lying on the ground, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. He was pronounced dead at the scene….

A Chicago man charged with fatally stabbing his female roommate in 2013 on the Northwest Side has been extradited from Poland to face a count of first-degree murder in Cook County. Mateusz Zabrzenski, 31, is charged in the fatal stabbing and possible strangulation of Sarah Krasilova, who was found dead in her apartment June 24, 2013 in the 6500 block…