Uptown

Director Daryl Brooks and actor Lyle Miller join “Chicago Today” to discuss “Blue Heaven,” a new musical on four blues legends, premiering on Oct. 31 at Black Ensemble Theater in Uptown.

A couple is sharing their harrowing experience of being carjacked at gunpoint in the city’s Uptown neighborhood, NBC 5’s Jen DeSalvo reports.

Activists have camped out for more than a week at the parking lot of the former Weiss Hospital in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. They’re protesting a condo development going up, and today the police removed them for trespassing. NBC 5’s Christian Farr reports.

Officials say that a 3-year-old boy has died after he fell more than 15 stories from a window of an Uptown residence on Monday evening.

Officials say that a 3-year-old boy has died after he fell more than 15 stories from a window of an Uptown residence on Monday evening.

A judge denied bail Sunday for a man who was charged with murder after after a woman was found dead in an alley early Thursday.

A memorial is growing for a 3-year-old girl who died while riding in a carrier on the back of her mother’s bike. Jen DeSalvo reports.

A 3-year-old girl riding with her mother died after a semi hit their bike in Uptown, authorities. NBC 5’s JC Navarrete reports.

A 3-year-old girl riding with her mother died after a semi hit their bike in Uptown and dragged the child, according to the Chicago Fire Department.

A 3-year-old girl riding with her mother died after a semi hit their bike in Uptown and dragged the child, according to the Chicago Fire Department.

A case worker for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services had visited the family a day before the murder, but the agency said “no signs of abuse, neglect or danger were noted by our investigator.”

A little girl celebrating her birthday Tuesday went through a terrifying ordeal after a gun went off in her classroom, grazing a classmate’s stomach. Natalie Martinez has the exclusive conversation with her parents.

A little girl celebrating her birthday Tuesday went through a terrifying ordeal after a gun went off in her classroom, grazing a classmate’s stomach.

The pair were found in a third-floor apartment bedroom after officers conducted a well-being check at the Wilson Yard senior home.

Authorities said there was no sign of a break-in at an Uptown senior building where two people were found shot to death Sunday evening. Alex Maragos has the latest on the frightening crime.

Authorities said there was no sign of a break-in at an Uptown senior building where two people were found shot to death Sunday evening.

While responding to a well-being check in an Uptown apartment building for seniors Sunday evening, officers found a man and a woman dead. NBC 5’s Chris Hush has the latest details.

Lisa Chavarria has more.

While responding to a well-being check in an Uptown apartment building Sunday evening, officers found a man and a woman dead, police said.

Neighbors are on high alert after reports of more than two dozen armed robberies in recent weeks on Chicago’s North Side. One of the attacks was caught on surveillance video in the Uptown neighborhood.