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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…

Two patients at Northwestern Memorial Hospital share their stories after receiving double lung transplant procedures due to the coronavirus. NBC 5’s Marion Brooks reports.

Two people were shot Saturday in River North. They were standing on the sidewalk about 2:30 a.m. in the first block of West Erie Street when someone in a silver sedan fired shots, Chicago police said. A 21-year-old man was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital with a gunshot wound to the leg, police said. He is in good condition. An…

A teenage boy was grazed by a stray bullet Tuesday near Grant Park in the South Loop. The 15-year-old was walking alone about 10:30 p.m. when he came across two groups of males who were arguing in the 1100 block of South Michigan Avenue, Chicago police said. Someone pulled out a gun and fired shots, grazing the boy on the…

A man was seriously injured in a shooting Saturday night in Chicago’s Loop, fire officials confirmed. The shooting was reported before 9 p.m. at State and Monroe streets, according to the Chicago Fire Department. The victim, a 25-year-old male, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where he was reported to be in serious condition. No additional information was immediately...

After contracting the coronavirus, a Chicago-based flight attendant was left with a more than $800 hospital bill due to an apparent hospital coding issue. In April, Troy Muenzer, said he was feeling short of breath, so he decided to go to Northwestern Memorial Hospital. “I explained that I was an essential worker,” he said. “I had been around a lot…

Coronavirus patients in Illinois are being socked with large bills due to coding issues at hospitals. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup reports

Northwestern Hospital has successfully completed its first double-lung transplant on a coronavirus patient. NBC 5’s Michelle Relerford reports.

Northwestern Hospital has successfully completed its first double-lung transplant on a coronavirus patient, the hospital confirmed. The patient, a Hispanic woman in her 20s, recovered from the virus but suffered life-threatening damage to both lungs, requiring the procedure. “A lung transplant was her only chance for survival,” said Ankit Bharat, MD, chief of thoracic surgery and surgical director of the…

Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago performed a double lung transplant on a woman in her 20s with COVID-19. The disease had damaged her lungs so much that doctors said the transplant was her only option.

Brooke Schulte and Peter Ryckbosch don’t feel like heroes. “I’m just doing my job that I was hired to do,” said 26-year old Schulte. “It’s hard for me to describe what I’m feeling when people call me a hero because I don’t feel that way,” echoed Pyckbosch, also 26. Day in and day out they don blue scrubs as...

Even with the coronavirus pandemic underway, the organ transplant team at Northwestern Medicine is still performing life-saving surgeries, including a double lung transplant this month. NBC 5’s Lauren Petty reports.

Affectionately known as the “Old Dolls,” a group of 10 nurses at Northwestern Memorial Hospital is on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic working in the intensive care units. The women have spent their entire careers in the Chicago hospital, each with 35 years of service or more. “I am an official ‘old’ doll,” Susan O’Connell jokes. She’s been…

Seven Chicago police officers were injured Saturday while responding to a disturbance at a storage center in the South Loop. About 11:05 a.m., officers were called to the storage center in the 1300 block of South Wabash Avenue for reports of a male who was causing a disturbance in the lobby, police said. The male refused to leave the property…

Katie Martino has been a nurse for 10 years.  Sarita Mazurowski for eight. Alyssa Olivieri’s mother and sister are nurses, her dad a doctor. And Patrice Rosenberg cared for some of the first coronavirus patients at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.  They arrive at Northwestern each day for 12-hour shifts dealing with coronavirus patients. “These are some of the sickest patients...

Meet four nurses on the front lines of the coronavirus battle at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. “These are some of the sickest patients we have seen in the hospital,” a nurse said. NBC 5 political editor Carol Marin reports.

A former nurse at Northwestern Memorial Hospital filed a lawsuit alleging she was fired after warning coworkers that masks the hospital provided did not adequately protect staff against COVID-19. Lauri Mazurkiewicz filed the suit Monday in Cook County Circuity Court, naming the hospital and several employees as defendants, the lawsuit states. According to the suit, the hospital began accepting and…

A Chicago man is lucky to be alive after a simple cough quickly transformed into a life-threatening case of the flu, and his doctors are urging their patients to get vaccinated against a disease that is quickly spreading across the United States. Octavio Cardenas, 42, was a very healthy father of eight, enjoying hiking and going to Cubs games with…

A second victim has publicly come forward saying she was sexually assaulted after going to a bar in Chicago’s River North neighborhood.

A piece of falling wood injured a driver Wednesday morning near Willis Tower amid a high wind warning in the Chicago area.