Uptown

Firefighters battled a blaze Saturday in Uptown on the North Side. Crews responded to the fire about 3:25 p.m. at a three-story building in the 1400 block of West Carmen Avenue, according to Chicago fire officials. The building’s back porches were on fire, but the blaze was extinguished by 4:05 p.m., fire officials said. An adjacent building sustained some damage…

Police are warning of a pair of carjackings reported in April in Uptown on the North Side.

The owners of an Uptown restaurant must pay back an emergency grant due to violations of federal labor law, state officials confirmed this weekend. According to the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO), the owners of Tank Noodle must pay back the $150,000 business interruption grant that it received from the state of Illinois due to those violations….

A Chicago woman said her father was attacked while walking in his own neighborhood, and as a result, she’s warning others to be vigilant, fearing her dad was targeted because he is Asian.

The owners of Tank Noodle were forced to pay nearly $700,000 to employees after a recent investigation alleged the popular Chicago restaurant forced servers to work for tips only and failed to pay overtime to several employees. The U.S. Department of Labor said the North Side eatery was paid more than $697,000 in back wages to 60 employees, some of…

An 87-year-old man died after being struck by a car Wednesday while crossing Lake Shore Drive near Foster Avenue in Uptown. He was was struck by a northbound Toyota Camry about 11:30 p.m. in the 5200 block of North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago police said. He was rushed to Illinois Masonic Medical Center where he was pronounced dead, police said….

A group of 18 artists took to an Uptown Chicago street Saturday to paint a large, colorful mural to support the Black Lives Matter movement. The large mural in the 4700 block of Clifton Avenue, between North Broadway Avenue and Lawrence Avenue, spells out the slogan in bright colors. The lettering of the street mural was done by Heart and…

A man was fatally struck by a car Friday while trying to run across Lake Shore Drive in Uptown on the North Side. The 32-year-old was attempting to run across the 4800 block of North Lake Shore Drive toward Montrose Avenue Beach about 1 a.m. when he was hit by a northbound Toyota Corolloa, Chicago police said. He was taken…

An Uptown man smothered his wife with a pillow during a bad mushroom trip because he was worried her drug-induced screams would make his neighbors think he was abusing her, Cook County prosecutors said Thursday. Brian David Rosin allegedly told officers he covered his wife’s face because she was having a schizophrenic episode after the couple took the drugs...

Ventilators are often the difference between life and death as patients fight coronavirus, and a Northwest Indiana auto manufacturer delivered the precious devices to an Uptown hospital. NBC 5’s Patrick Fazio has the story.

A man and a teenage boy were stabbed Saturday on a CTA Red Line train in Uptown on the North Side. The 39-year-old man and 15-year-old boy got into an argument with a male wearing a ski mask about 2:30 a.m. on a train in the 4600 block of North Broadway, according to Chicago police. The person in the mask…

Uptown resident Alicia Hawley says she can’t believe how quick postal thieves got in and out of her condo building. “Three minutes, from start to finish,” said Hawley, the president of her condo association. “One person was carrying U.S. postal bins. The other person had the key. It tells me it was a coordinated effort..that it was planned, and...

Police are warning residents about mail and package thefts this month in Uptown and near the Lathrop Homes housing development on the North Side. In each case, two suspects broke into mailboxes at large residential complexes and took packages and other mail, according to a community alert from Chicago police. The burglaries happened: At 3:38 a.m. Feb. 7 in the…

Looks like these Chicago Girl Scouts are some smart cookies. The group that set up a booth selling Girl Scout cookies outside a North Side dispensary over the weekend sold several hundred boxes, according to the group. “I do know it was like several hundred,” said Britney Bouie, public relations manager for the Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest…

A couple of budding business executives? Young Girl Scouts set up shop outside a cannabis dispensary in Chicago over the weekend, earning high praise from many visitors and social media. Dispensary 33, located near the Uptown neighborhood, shared videos of the troop dishing out cookies to hungry customers Sunday morning. “We have Girl Scout cookies!!” the dispensary tweeted. “And not…

Young Girl Scouts set up shop outside a cannabis dispensary in Chicago over the weekend, earning high praise from many visitors and social media.

Chicago police issued a community alert after a man attempted to lure two children into his van in the Uptown neighborhood Monday. According to the alert, a 10-year-old girl and a 9-year-old boy were walking in the 4400 block of North Clarendon around 4:35 p.m. Police say the children were approached by a bald, white man in his 50s driving…

A baby boy shot Monday night on Chicago’s North Side was actually wounded during a “domestic struggle” between his parents, police said, not by gunfire that rang out on a city street. Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi tweeted Tuesday morning that an investigation overnight revealed “no shooting ever occurred at Clarendon/Leland,” but the shooting was instead a result of...

A baby boy shot Monday night on Chicago’s North Side was actually wounded during a “domestic struggle” between his parents, police said, not by gunfire that rang out on a city street. NBC 5’s Lisa Chavarria has the latest.

A baby boy shot Monday night on Chicago’s North Side was reported to be in serious, but stable condition in the hours following the shooting, police said. The shooting happened before 8:15 p.m. at Leland and Clarendon streets in the city’s Uptown neighborhood, according to Chicago Police Dept. Spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. Officers said a man, who was carrying the...