Summer has wrapped up, fall is just beginning, and some Chicagoans are already turning their attention to the holiday season. While Christmas is still more than three months away and counting, one of the city’s most beloved holiday traditions is preparing for its busiest time of the year. The Marshall Fields Walnut Room, the iconic restaurant inside ...

There likely won’t be a shortage of rain across the Chicago area this weekend, with multiple rounds of showers and thunderstorms expected through Sunday night, bringing the possibility of heavy downpours. Rain chances will increase after midnight and continue through Saturday morning. A flood watch is in effect Friday night through Saturday morning ...

The first mRNA flu shot is now available, but not everyone is eligible. Modernas mFlusiva is the first flu vaccine in the United States to use messenger RNA technology, the same platform used in Pfizer and Modernas Covid shots. Scientists have long been interested in using mRNA against the flu because the vaccines can be made faster, potentially making ...

One person was hospitalized after their car was struck by a Metra train in a northwest suburb of Chicago on Friday, authorities said. The person was injured when outbound Union Pacific Northwest train no. 652 struck their vehicle around noon near the intersection of Hart Road and Route 14 in Barrington, officials said. The crash caused “extensive ...

Two people were charged after authorities seized over 300 pounds of cocaine and more than $700,000 from a home in suburban River Grove, federal authorities said. Burhan C. Ozerdinc, 33, of Oak Lawn, and Ahmad S. Sanducka, 33, of Mount Prospect, were charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance with intent to ...

The only Tory Burch store in Chicago recently shuttered its doors, leaving local fans of the high-end brand with only suburban shopping options. The Tory Burch store located at 45 E. Oak Street in the city’s Gold Coast neighborhood was closed as of Friday, though it was not immediately clear when the store shut down. The store, known for its ...

A performance by Chicago-born, award-winning artist Commonis among the events moving indoors across the city this weekend, as both showers and thunderstorms are expected through Sunday. The Grammy, Emmy and Academy Award-winning artist is scheduled to perform on Saturday, Sept. 19, at Chicago Live Festival, which is considered the largest free performing ...

A manhunt search for an armed suspect was underway Friday afternoon in a northwest Indiana county, state police warned. Around 5 p.m., Indiana State Police said their officers were trying to find an armed suspect in the area 8325 N CR 125 E in LaPorte County. Police said the suspect is described as a white or Hispanic man with a thin build and ...

Editor’s Note: The video in the above player is from a previous report. A young boy died on Thursday, nearly a week after he was struck by a driver while riding an e-scooter in a southwest suburb of Chicago. Jad Debiy, an 8-year-old boy from Bridgeview, was critically injured while riding an electric scooter around 5 p.m. on Sept. 11 when he was ...

Family, friends and supporters gathered at a fundraiser on Friday to support a Chicago police officer who was shot and seriously injured while on duty. Officer Nelson Crespo was critically injured in April when a man opened fire inside Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital. His partner, Officer John Bartholomew, was killed. On Friday night, Crespo’s ...

The team behind the award-winning Monteverde Restaurant & Pastificio in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood will open their second restaurant in Bucktown. James Beard Award-winning chef Sarah Grueneberg and partners Jaime Canete and Rob Mosher came together to create Trattoria Lo So, expected to open at 2044 W. Armitage Ave. in early 2027. ...

Trains were delayed and people asked to avoid part of a northwest suburb after a Metra train struck a car on Friday. Around noon, outbound Union Pacific Northwest train no. 652 struck a vehicle near the intersection of Hart Road and Route 14 in Barrington, officials said. Aerial video from NBC Chicago Sky 5 showed a badly damaged red vehicle in a ...

Amazon will be dolling out additional payments and to more customers as part of its $2.5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. In 2025, Amazon settled allegations brought by the FTC that it misled customers into enrolling in its Prime membership and then deliberately made it difficult to cancel the service. Although the e-commerce ...

A new Forbes report found that 18 of America’s 400 richest people are from Illinois. The report, released Tuesday, is Forbes 45 annual ranking of the wealthiest Americans for 2026. The minimum net worth to make the list, editors wrote, increased to $4.4 billion — marking a $600 million increase from last year’s cutoff. In a release announcing ...

You may qualify to get a chunk of a $2.5 billion settlement with Amazon — and the payouts are now even higher than before. The payouts stem from a settlement approved in 2025 that alleged online retail giant tricked customers into signing up for its Prime memberships and made it difficult for them to cancel after doing so. As part of the suit, $1.5 ...

Duncan Sheik, the Tony- and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter who crafted the music for Spring Awakening, has died. He was 56. Sheik died Thursday from organ failure, his mother Suzanne Sheik told The New York Times. She did not provide any other details about his condition or what led to the organ failure. The world has a lost a singular talent, and ...

When Chakia Bradford, 32, first noticed she was short of breath in April of last year, she assumed it was bad allergies. The pollen count was up in her home of Humble, Texas, so I really didnt think too much of it, Bradford, who works in law enforcement, tells TODAY.com. And then maybe a week and a half later, I still have shortness of breath, she ...

A 27-year-old suburban man was arrested and charged after a series of incidents at an Evanston community center where police say he offered juveniles candy and cannabis and was repeatedly asked to not return. Kobe Wilson, 27, of Evanston, was arrested Thursday, police said, and was charged with two counts of misdemeanor criminal trespass. He is being ...

Here comes a rainy and stormy weekend. Rounds of thunderstorms producing heavy rain will begin moving into the Chicago area Friday night, the NBC 5 Storm Team said, bringing the potential for flooding and cooler temperatures as fall begins. Friday morning, however, started out quiet, NBC 5 Storm Team meteorologist Iisha Scott said. By late morning ...

Warren Buffett is stepping down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, after more than 60 years guiding the firm that turned him into a household name for millions of investors worldwide. Buffett was named chairman emeritus effective immediately, with his son Howard G. Buffett taking over as chairman, Berkshire said in a statement Friday. As Chairman ...

Anthropic’s Claude is helping the company develop the next, more intelligent version of the model, the artificial intelligence lab said in an announcement Thursday. Claude is leading 26% of Anthropic’s model research and development, which the company said means it can complete most of a given task end-to-end from a high-level prompt” while still ...

A group of Lincoln-Way High School students accused of making racist gestures toward attendees from a rival high school during a football game earlier this month will voluntarily withdraw from school instead of being expelled. The Lincoln-Way School District Board of Education Thursday night voted unanimously to allow six students involved in the racial ...

Jimmy Fallon thought he was dying after dipping into the icy waters of Lake Michigan during Chicago’s Polar Plunge a few years back, he told NBC Chicago’s Stefan Holt during a one-on-one chat this week. “I got out and I heard bagpipes, and that’s what Irish people hear when they die,” the host of NBC’s The Tonight Show said. Holt ...

Pilsen just might be the most colorful neighborhood in Chicago. And a coffee shop opened for less than a year slots right in. It’s called Cafe Carranza, and it’s named after the owner, Francia Carranza. She came to Chicago from Mexico at age two, grew up in Gage Park, and translated her lifelong obsession with coffee into a brick-and-mortar ...

A type of the highly popular mystery squishy dumpling toys was recalled on Thursday because they pose a potentially deadly hazard to children, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said. Florida-based Toyworld168 Inc. recalled its Rainbow Mystery Squishy Bun Toys because the water beads inside the dumplings can expand larger than permitted by the ...