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A Chicago homeowner says she was working a 24-hour shift as a first responder when her son threw a massive house party that ultimately went viral.

A source tells NBC 5 that her family was likely discriminated at when they arrived at the hospital, forcing them to wait outside for hours in the cold.

The 7-year-old girl who was trick-or-treating on Halloween in Chicago’s West Side with her family remains in critical condition Friday as police interrogated a juvenile in custody. The girl was one of two people injured in the shooting that took place at around 5:30 p.m. in the 3700 block of West 26th Street in the city’s Little Village neighborhood, according...

A 7-year-old girl was critically hurt after she was shot while trick-or-treating in Chicago on Thursday. NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter has all the late breaking details from Little Village.

Detectives are investigating after a child was shot and critically hurt in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood on the West Side.

Steven Spielberg has cast an unknown 17-year-old from New Jersey to play Maria in his remake of “West Side Story.”
Deadline first reported Monday the director picked Rachel Zegler after auditioning more than 30,000 hopefuls.

Family members of two people killed by Chicago police officers spoke out Sunday afternoon, a day after the shooting, questioning why police resorted to firing their weapons at all.

Two people were killed on Chicago’s West Side after a police-involved shooting early Saturday morning, according to authorities.

A mother of five was “accidentally” killed in a police-involved shooting Saturday on the city’s West Side, police said, part of an officer-involved shooting that left a second person, a 19-year-old NIU student, dead. NBC 5’s Emily Florez reports.