Investigations

A Chicago Public Schools employee has been removed from the classroom after students – including one as young as five years old – had their mouths duct taped during a classroom incident, NBC 5 Investigates has learned. The March 18 incident happened at Carter G. Woodson South Elementary School in Bronzeville. An internal investigation is underway w...

NBC 5 Investigates has learned a Chicago Police Department surveillance camera, located just feet from where police fatally shot 26-year old Dexter Reed following an exchange of gunfire last month, wasn’t working at the time of the deadly encounter.

Three hundred former patients of a Chicago gynecologist say they were abused and violated – and two top Chicago hospitals did nothing to protect them. 

Despite a City of Chicago website dedicated to tracking how nearly $300 million was spent on the migrant crisis, many aspects of the migrant crisis remain shrouded in secrecy – most notably how migrant shelter sites are selected and how much building owners are profiting off the migrant crisis.

NBC 5 Investigates filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court Friday against Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration, alleging the City of Chicago’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications has withheld certain public records related to the migrant crisis.

A cyberattack affecting Lurie Children’s Hospital is part of a growing trend of hackers targeting hospitals and health care organizations, NBC Chicago’s Bennett Haeberle reports.

As the Chicago Bears shift their focus, now hoping to build a new stadium on the city’s lakefront, the move raises questions about how the White Sox come into play, particularly as both teams seek taxpayer funding for their respective projects.

The Chicago Bears turned heads Monday with their announcement that they hope to stay in Chicago, and build a new publicly owned stadium on the city’s lakefront. But that plan came with few details – and plenty of unanswered questions, particularly surrounding potential public funding for the project, as taxpayers still owe hundreds of millions of d...

With recent outbreaks of measles in the Chicago area – including diagnoses of measles within the city’s new migrant shelters – NBC 5 Investigates and Telemundo Investiga have examined all immunization data kept by the Illinois State Board of Education, which shows the vaccination rates for each school – public and private – throughout the state.&nb...

The Chicago Bears’ push to build a new stadium has shifted to a publicly owned domed stadium on Museum Campus, near Soldier Field on the city’s lakefront, according to a source familiar with the plan.

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration suggested this week it has no plans to postpone enforcement of its 60-day shelter stay policy, meaning scores of migrants could soon be forced to leave city’s shelters starting on March 16.

As the Chicago Bears and White Sox both look for public funding for new stadium developments, newly obtained internal emails show that Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office pushed to publicly present a united front with the Sox after meeting with owner Jerry Reinsdorf in early January.

Internal city documents obtained by NBC 5 Investigates show Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration was aware as far back as October that “overcrowding individuals” in the city’s migrant shelters put both migrants and shelter staff at “higher risk of contagious illnesses.” Those same records, obtained by NBC 5 Investigates through a series of Freedo...