The spokesman for Irans paramilitary Revolutionary Guard insisted Friday that Tehran was still building missiles, seeking to counter a claim by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that it no longer could. Gen. Ali Mohammad Naeini also said the Iran war would go on. A short time later, Iranian state television reported Naeini was killed in an ...

The family of an 18-year-old Loyola University Chicago student Sheridan Gorman who was killed while she walked with friends not far from campus is demanding answers as law enforcement continues to investigate the incident. Our beloved daughter, Sheridan, was taken from us this morning in Chicago. There is no way to soften thisthis was murder,” her ...

Certain surnames are synonymous with Chicago dining: Bayless, Trotter, Nahabedian. I’d add the Bannos family to that list. For the last four decades, they’ve run two of my favorite and most successful restaurants in Chicago: Jimmy Bannos was the face behind the Creole restaurant Heaven on Seven, and his son Jimmy Bannos Jr. launched The Purple ...

Fears that jihadist attacks could take place in Chicago are rising as at least 1300 Iranians are believed to have been killed — including the nation’s Supreme Leader, military commanders and civilians — all by relentless airstrikes from American and Israeli forces amid the ongoing overseas war. Law enforcement officials in the U.S, have been ...

BP has locked out hundreds of workers at its Indiana refinery, saying the union must accept its Tuesday contract proposal in order to end the lockout. The lockout comes after BP and the workers union, United Steelworkers Local 7-1, failed to reach a contract agreement on Tuesday. We presented British Petroleum with an offer [Tuesday] that included ...

March is Womens History Month, and NBC 5 is highlighting a Chicago designer that is living proof that women can do it all! Azeeza Khan remembers a time when a retail store on Michigan Avenue was just a dream. The first week I started at DePaul, I took the Red Line and I got off at the Chicago stop, Khan said. And I walked down Michigan Avenue for the ...

Cook County officials are warning residents to be weary of a circulating text message scam that falsely claims to require payment for unpaid charges. Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County Mariyana Spyropoulos said a scam text “designed to look like a notice of a hearing for a traffic violation and directs recipients to scan a QR code to make ...

Illinois film industry set a new record last year, with production companies spending $703 million: the highest total in state history, Gov. JB Pritzker announced. “Fourteen years ago today, actually, we were filming the pilot of Chicago Fire in these very streets,” said actor Joe Minoso at a news conference Thursday at Cinespace Studios Chicago. ...

A La Nia pattern is likely coming to an end, but some significant changes could be arriving in the form of an El Nio. According to the National Weather Services Climate Prediction Center, a transition from a La Nia pattern to a more neutral pattern is expected to occur within the next month, but that neutral phase isnt expected to last for long. ...

A proposal to build what could be the largest data center in Illinois was approved by a suburban city council on Thursday afternoon. Joliet City Council approved plans for the Joliet Technology Center, an approximately 795-acre data center that will be built near Rowell and Bernhard Roads. A site of that magnitude is big enough to fit eight football ...

The family of a college student from Illinois whose body was found on a beach in Spain during a spring break trip has released a statement. The family of James “Jimmy” Gracey confirmed that the body of the 20-year-old from the western Chicago suburb of Elmhurst was recovered in Barcelona Thursday. “Our family is heartbroken as we confirm that ...

For the first time in a decade, Illinois is choosing a new comptroller, and this week’s primary was hotly contested. In the end, State Rep. Margaret Croke will be the winner of the four-way race for the Democratic party’s nomination, the Associated Press now projects. Current Comptroller Susana Mendoza announced last year she would not seek ...

Two south suburban high school students were arrested Thursday after a weapon was found inside their school’s gym, authorities said. Around 11:20 a.m., administrators at Thornridge High School, located at 15000 Cottage Grove Avenue in Dolton, were notified that a possible weapon magazine had been seen in the gym area, according to a statement from ...

ABC has pulledTaylor Frankie Paul’s season of “The Bachelorette”just days before its Sunday premiere, a Disney Entertainment Television spokesperson confirmed to NBC News. The move comes amid reports that “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” star Paul and her ex, Dakota Mortensen, are involved in an ongoing domestic violence investigation. A ...

Just weeks after a viral video sparked an outpouring of support and nearly $1 million in donations, 78yearold DoorDash driver Richard Pulley says he has no plans to retire. Pulley and his wife, Brenda, became the focus of national attention after Brittany Smith shared doorbellcamera footage of him carefully climbing the steps to deliver a Starbucks order ...

A long-term rehabilitation project on the Bishop Ford Freeway will close lanes and impact traffic beginning next week. According to the Illinois Department of Transportation, the project is set to get underway Tuesday, weather permitting, and will take place over the next two construction seasons, wrapping up at the tail end of 2027. The outbound side ...

Police in Spain have discovered a body amid a search for a missing college student from suburban Chicago, though the identity of the body remains unknown. Authorities confirmed to NBC News a body was found at Somorrostro Beach around 6 p.m. local time Thursday, but noted that the body remains unidentified. The beach is near where James “Jimmy” ...

NOTE: NBC Chicago will offer a live feed of the race beginning at 8:20 a.m. Sunday. Watch live in the player above. The 2026 Bank of America Shamrock Shuffle will step off in Grant Park on Sunday, bringing thousands of runners into Chicago for the unofficial kickoff to outdoor running season. NBC Chicago will offer live coverage of the race beginning ...

If you want honest marriage advice, ask a room of second graders.  Teacher Klarissa Trevino, 26, had always hoped to involve her students in some way with her wedding. When she came up with the idea of having them write their best piece of marriage advice, she knew it was the perfect fit. “I love my students, like, absolutely love them,” Trevino ...

Metra officials have announced a pilot program that will explore a dramatic change to the way fares are collected on its trains. According to a press release Thursday, the agency will begin a pilot program on Monday, April 6 that will require passengers at select downtown stations to launch their Ventra app or to show their paper ticket to a conductor ...

Six Flags Great America in Gurnee is adding several new events for its 2026 summer season as part of its 50th anniversary, with throwback experiences, food and more. The events comes as the park, which originally opened in 1976 as Marriotts Great America,” looks back on its decades of history. Fifty years of Six Flags Great America is a ...

Debt collection calls have increased by over 200% in the past year, with over 194,000 of them being reported as fraudulent or abusive and threatening, according to data from the Federal Trade Commission. Thomas Nitzsche, a financial educator at Money Management International, said the increase in reports of harassment from debt collectors could be linked ...

The reversible express lanes on the Kennedy Expressway will be closed this weekend for a repair project, IDOT officials say. According to the Illinois Department of Transportation, a fiber optics line will require repair this weekend, and as a result there will be closures of those reversible lanes beginning Friday night. In addition, the left lane of ...

Nearly 90,000 bottles of children’s oral Ibuprofen medicine have been recalled, according to a Food and Drug Administration report, with health officials saying the medicine could contain a foreign substance. Pharmaceutical company Strides Pharma Inc. issued the voluntary recall March 2 because the firm received complaints “for a gel-like mass and ...

TikToker Rachel Tussey has died after a “mommy makeover” surgery took an unexpected and tragic turn. Tussey, who went by the username @midlifeunmuted_,” detailed her life as an Ohio mom of three, a wife and a woman on social media. In recent months, she began using her platform to document her journey toward getting a tummy tuck, with her ...