Wicker Park

“Please don’t do this to a small business, people,” the owner tweeted. “That one sale was a third of our rent.”

After months of closing rumors, a Chicago Walgreens housed inside a century-old bank that recently gained local TikTok fame has confirmed that it will soon shut it doors for good, according to a spokesperson for the company.

A look back at the top news headlines for this week in news with Evrod Cassimy.

A Chicago chef at a Michelin-starred restaurant in Wicker Park is sharing his story after being nearly killed while waiting for the CTA train.

If you’ve spent time on Chicago’s thriving beauty, fashion and festival circuit, you likely know Michelle and Melissa Gomez, even if you don’t know their names.  The sisters and co-owners of Dynamic Salon in Wicker Park are also the brains and brawn behind the 15-year-old Do Division fashion show. “We consider ourselves from this community,” said Melissa Gomez. “We...

Festival Au Cinema, the micro film festival at Den Theater, will screen twenty genre and form-breaking movies this weekend.

Police did not say if the attacks were related.

Over in Wicker Park, the 1-year-old Vaca’s Creamery is a 100 % vegan creamery, making sundaes, cones and shakes.

A man suffered a laceration to his face after he was attacked with a knife following a verbal altercation on a CTA Blue Line train Saturday night.

Chicago police have issued an urgent warning to residents after a string of at least 19 armed robberies have been reported in several Northwest Side neighborhoods, including Wicker Park and Bucktown.

The owners of a small business that opened in Wicker Park just weeks before a stay-at-home order was put into place last year describe how they not only survived – but thrived – as entrepreneurs. NBC 5’s Christian Farr reports.

Marlon Tan, the co-owner at the Wicker Park Restaurant, recommends some of the most popular menu items at Cebu including lumpia, BBQ pork Skewers, and Cebu lechon.

A heavy police presence was reported in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood Friday afternoon following a shooting in which a suspect opened fire, injuring a man during an armed robbery, authorities said.

A 35-year-old Chicago man was charged Wednesday in a weekend mass shooting in Wicker Park that left one person dead and four injured.

A mass shooting on Sunday morning in Wicker Park has residents and business owners rattled, not knowing what solution would solve the rising crime problem in the area.

Surveillance cameras at nearby businesses captured the shooting in the 1500 block of Milwaukee Avenue that killed a 32-year-old man and injured four other men and women. NBC 5’s Chris Hush reports.

Residents and business owners are on edge after a group of assailants unleased a flurry of paintballs in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood on Tuesday, sending customers at a sushi restaurant scrambling for cover.

Residents and business owners are on edge after a group of assailants unleased a flurry of paintballs in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood on Tuesday, sending customers at a sushi restaurant scrambling for cover. NBC 5’s Alex Maragos has the story.

Police are warning residents in Wicker Park and Bucktown about a recent string of carjackings and robberies