A 31-year-old man has died after a crash in suburban Mount Prospect on Saturday night. According to police, the motorcyclist was traveling westbound on Oakton Street at approximately 8:06 p.m. when a Jeep driven by a 19-year-old tried turning off of First Avenue and onto Oakton. The resulting collision sent the motorcyclist flying onto the pavement, ...

Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams is off to a flying start in his first game of his third season, and he joined some unique company in the game. Williams put up a combined 248 yards of offense in the first half of Sundays game against the Carolina Panthers, and he helped the Bears to a 31-24 advantage after 30 minutes of play. That offensive ...

Former Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon on Sunday called for Congress to allow the nations leading frontier AI labs to regulate themselves while lawmakers come up with a long-term regulatory framework for slowing the pace of AI development. My personal opinion would be to insist and allow that the current labs regulate themselves. I do think that the ...

Sydney Sweeney is putting her focus on Just Sports in her latest ad campaign, but female athletes are less than impressed. The actress stars in Novigs new national campaign promoting the sports trading platform ahead of football season. The campaign features Sweeney in a series of provocative shots with sports balls and pieces of athletic gear ...

Chicago police say three people were shot in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood Saturday, with a woman suffering severe injuries. According to authorities, two men were riding in a light-colored sedan in the 7100 block of South Campbell at approximately 9 p.m. when they opened fire at a group of people standing nearby. A 37-year-old woman was struck by ...

The Chicago Bears are off and running in the 2026 season, and Caleb Williams and Rome Odunze already have a play for the season highlight reel. Odunze, who was questionable for Sundays game, made sure that everyone knew just how healthy he was in the first quarter, hauling in a staggering 47-yard reception to set the Bears up in the red zone. On the ...

What to KnowRome Odunze will be active, Tyson Bagent is inactive for the Bears SundayDillon Thieneman, Zavion Thomas set to make NFL debutsThe Bears are hoping to win their first road game of the season for the first time since 2020 The Chicago Bears and Carolina Panthers are set to kick off the regular season, and we will have live updates throughout ...

The Chicago Bears will have wide receiver Rome Odunze on the field Sunday, as he was not among the teams inactive players. Odunze will suit up after being listed as questionable for Sundays game, and he will hope to get the Bears off to a winning start for the season. Unfortunately for the Bears, they will officially be without quarterback Tyson ...

After months of speculation, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is officially launching a bid for a second term in City Hall. Johnson made the announcement official Sunday in a video posted to his website and to social media, as well as an interview in the New York Times, saying his aim is to continue to work to make the city of Chicago the safest and most ...

Note: The parade can be viewed live on the NBC 5 Chicago News 24/7 streaming channel here. Scores of visitors and celebrators are expected to fill Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood on Sunday afternoon as the annual 26th Street Mexican Independence Day Parade gets underway. Now in its 55th year, the parade will step off at noon from the ...

The long wait is finally over for Chicago Bears fans, as the team will finally kick off its 2026 season against the Carolina Panthers. The Bears are coming off of their first division title since 2018 and their first playoff win since 2011, and theyre hungry for more as the regular season gets underway in Charlotte on Sunday afternoon. Heres what ...

An Iranian commercial vessel was struck early Sunday off Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, with one person killed and four wounded, Iranian state media said, a day before Tehran seeks to brief regional countries on its contested efforts to manage shipping traffic there. State-run IRNA news agency quoted the Qeshm governor as blaming a terrorist enemy. ...

The Queen of Power Ballads is BACK! Celine Dion made her return to the stage on Sept. 12 at the Plenitude Arena just outside Paris, France. It was thefirst concert in six yearsfor the singer, who took a break after she publicly revealed her stiff person syndrome diagnosis. And the moment was an emotional one. Dion, 58, broke down in tears. I had ...

Plans are underway for the addition of IMAX capabilities to a popular movie theater in downtown Chicago, city records show. Chicago building permit records indicate that one of the auditoriums at AMC River East 21, located at 322 E. Illinois St. in Streeterville, is being converted to include IMAX capability. The only two IMAX theaters currently in ...

The Chicago Bears are set to kick off their 2026 season on Sunday with a game against the Carolina Panthers. While the Bears will play their season opener at the Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, they’ll be back in the Windy City next weekend for their home opener against the Minnesota Vikings on Sept. 20. Here’s a look at what football fans ...

The annual El Grito festival returned Saturday, drawing crowds to Grant Park on Saturday for a celebration of Mexican heritage. The weekend-long festival features live music, food and art in the days leading up to Mexican Independence Day. I think the celebration and the music is half of it, Franea Arceo, a taco vendor with El Taconazo Express, said.I ...

A baby girl died after she was found unresponsive and with injuries on Chicago’s far North Side on Saturday, police said. Around 11:40 a.m., police said an unresponsive 1-year-old girl was found with visible injuries to her lower body on the 2600 block of West Rosemont Avenue in the city’s West Rogers Park neighborhood. She was transported to a ...

Chief Keef’s tour kickoff performance in Chicago was postponed just 30 minutes before the South Side native was set to take the stage on Saturday, the venue announced. The postponement of the show, that was originally set to start at 7:30 p.m. at Huntington Bank Pavillion on Northerly Island, was announced around 7 p.m. “Chief Keefs September 12th ...

A Cook County judge had two sheriffs deputies detained this week for refusing to unshackle a man facing murder charges so he could embrace his family a move the deputies union described as an outrageous abuse of the courts authority. The incident happened Wednesday after Circuit Judge John F. Lyke Jr. invited the defendants relatives to step forward for ...

A suburban woman was pronounced dead after she was pulled from Lake Michigan near Chicago’s Grant Park on Friday evening, police said. Around 8:30 p.m., Chicago police marine officers responded to a call of a person in the water near the 300 block of South Lake Shore Drive and recovered an unresponsive woman from the water near Monroe Harbor, ...

The Archdiocese of Chicago recently settled out of court with nine people who accused eight Chicago-area priests of sexually abusing them decades ago. The settlements, totaling $5.4 million, were all reached in the last two weeks, according to the attorneys representing the victims. Nobodys paying that kind of money for something that didnt happen, ...

A ‘high alert’ for bird migration over the Chicago area remains in effect through Sunday night as tens of thousands of birds continue to fly over the region each night. The alert comes as millions of birds migrated over Illinois each night for the past several days. In all, more than 825 million birds were expected to move across the U.S. during the ...

The body of a diver who went missing while on a shipwreck diving trip off the shore of Chicago last weekend was recovered by a specialized team earlier this week, a search and recovery company said. Wisconsin-based Bruces Legacy Search & Recovery said on Monday that its team was called to assist in the search for a missing diver who went missing on Sept. ...

The Chicago area is likely to feel some weather whiplash through the weekend and into the start of the week, the National Weather Service warned. “A bit of a temperature roller coaster is in store through Tuesday,” NWS said in a post on social media on Saturday. Saturday brought humid, 80-degree temperatures to the Chicago area, but a dip is in ...

With less than 30 days until the Bank of America Chicago Marathon, every minute and every step of preparation counts. “They couldn’t run a mile the first day and now they’re here running ‘a short week’ is what they call it. It’s a 14-mile run,” said Marco Galvan, the executive director of Students Run Chicago. Founded in 2014, the ...