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The National Weather Service is investigating reports of a possible tornado in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood on Monday afternoon. According to the service, video shared via social media showed what may have been a brief tornado in the neighborhood at approximately 4 p.m. Monday. The report was one of several from around the Chicago area as a series of...

A suspected tornado went through Chicago’s Rogers Park Monday night, bringing down several trees and even damaging cars. NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter reports.

Police are looking for a vehicle in relation to a hit-and-run that injured an 11-year-old girl last month in Rogers Park on the North Side. The girl was crossing the street about 8:30 p.m. July 15 in the 6800 block of North Sheridan Road when she was struck by a maroon SUV, Chicago police said. The SUV sped off on…

A north suburban Evanston man is facing a felony weapons charge after an hours-long armed standoff with a SWAT team Wednesday night in Rogers Park on the North Side. Kyle Samuels, 29, is charged with a felony count of being an armed habitual criminal, according to Chicago police. He also faces a misdemeanor count of reckless conduct. Samuels was seen…

Police are warning businesses about a pair of robberies last week in the same Rogers Park block on the North Side. In each case, a man entered a store in the 7000 block of North Sheridan Road and displayed or implied that he had a gun before demanding cash or taking it from the register, according to a business alert…

The person found dead in Belmont Harbor Sunday on the North Side has been identified as a man who went missing while canoeing in Lake Michigan several days earlier. Richard Holic was last seen canoeing in the lake June 2 near the 1200 block of West Chase Avenue in Rogers Park, according to a missing person alert from Chicago police….

Police are warning residents about a pair of carjackings reported since last month in West Rogers Park on the North Side. In each case, one or more suspects entered a parked car, forced the victim out of it and drove away, according to a community alert from Chicago police. The most recent carjacking happened about 6:45 p.m. Friday in the…

A man was shot during an armed robbery Thursday in Rogers Park by a group wanted for a series of other hold-ups since last week, according to police. The 33-year-old man was on the sidewalk about 8:25 p.m. in the 6700 block of North Bosworth Avenue when two males robbed him at gunpoint before one of them opened fire, Chicago…

Lake Michigan is once again calm after its busy weekend battering Chicago’s shoreline, but while many were stuck indoors, Rogers Park resident Francine McTeer watched outside, waiting to for the storm to pass and remembering what the area outside her home used to look like. NBC 5’s Lisa Chavarria reports.

Lake Michigan is once again calm after its busy weekend battering Chicago’s shoreline, but while many were stuck indoors, Rogers Park resident Francine McTeer watched outside, waiting to for the storm to pass and remembering what the area outside her home used to look like. “The beach used to go out about a block and now this has happened,”...

Chicago police need the public’s help to identify a man found dead in Rogers Park yard on the North Side. Someone called 911 after noticing the unconscious man in their yard about 5 p.m. Dec. 10 in the 2000 block of West Arthur Avenue, Chicago police said. The man, who police said was about 50 years old, was given CPR…

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A Woodlawn man has been charged with murder in a mid-day shooting at the CTA Howard station that killed a 20-year-old man who moved to Rogers Park to escape gun violence. Keith Gross, 30, was arrested Wednesday in suburban Skokie and charged with first-degree murder in connection to the Dec. 3 shooting, Chicago police said. He is currently being held…

A person died after being struck by a CTA train Thursday in Rogers Park on the North Side.

Police were looking to identify one of two pedestrians struck by a driver Friday in Rogers Park on the North Side.

A man died and a firefighter was being treated for a leg injury after a fire Tuesday in the Rogers Park neighborhood, officials said.

A 31-year-old woman was knocked out and sexually assaulted Wednesday evening as she walked in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side, police said.

A fire on the city’s North Side has destroyed an insurance office and has closed Clark Street between Touhy and Lunt, according to officials.