Regina Waldroup

NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup introduces us to a 24-year-old man who has helped countless homeless individuals in the cold, one blanket at a time.

PNC Bank has forgiven the debt of a suburban Chicago mom whose child is battling cancer after she received a bogus check from a seemingly kind stranger.

A suburban mother already dealing with her son’s cancer diagnosis now has a new worry after she found trouble from a stranger who seemingly was offering her help. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup has more. 

A suburban Chicago mom of a child battling cancer says that someone who offered to pay her bills for a month instead sent her a fake check. Now she’s being charged overdraft fees from the bank that initially cleared the $3,500 check after she spent the money on rent and other bills.

More than 100 people were left without a home after a fire destroyed an apartment building Saturday in far west suburban Sycamore.

Concerns over a high number of deer in west suburban River Forest have prompted the village to consider a sharp-shooter program that would allow hunters to descend on parts of the area. Regina Waldroup reports. 

Some residents in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood are fighting to save their trees.

The last time Michelle Morgan heard from her son, Terryonte Bridgeman, was at 8:41 p.m. on June 24 via text message. Bridgeman, 25, asked his mother to pick him up from his girlfriend’s apartment off of County Line Road in Gary, Indiana. Morgan went to get him, but he was nowhere to be found.

A frustrated mother is trying to get to the bottom of what happened at her son’s school last week that sent him to the hospital.

Cubs fan Naila O’Connell was in baseball heaven at the home opener at Wrigley on Monday — the first she’d ever attended — until she was hit in the face by a foul ball off the bat of Anthony Rizzo

A local lawmaker wants to convert Interstate 80 into a toll road in Will County.

A forensic expert says it would take five years to clear the state’s DNA backlog.

A sturdy SUV in good condition. That’s what Olga Terry had in mind when she went to Sibley Car Credit. But that’s not what happened, she says.

The parents of a 3-year-old girl are demanding answers after they say a chunk of their daughter’s hair was ripped out around nap time at a suburban day care.

The risk of frostbite is very real in extreme cold, and NBC 5 talked to one woman who was treated for it and is sharing her firsthand experience.

Right now there are hundreds of people missing in Illinois–but a new support group is looking to help their families.