Investigations

As NBC Chicago’s investigative team first reported on Tuesday, current and former emergency center operators are worried that a new dispatch system could endanger officers and public safety.

As NBC 5 investigates, a new 911 dispatch system is about to be rolled out in Chicago and some police and fire operators in the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications say they fear the worst.

What is shaping up as a mammoth federal prosecution of an alleged illicit gambling racket features a staggering amount of evidence

The accusations involve a Chinese-Canadian college student, who took secret pictures at Chicago’s largest airport and is now facing spy allegations.

Inspection reports for the bridges along the Chicago River in the Loop, from DLSD to Congress Parkway, found that the majority have serious issues.

NBC 5 investigates found new crime data from both cities’ police departments showed Chicago is leading New York by wide margins in crime categories.

“There was a lot about this bridge that’s needing repair,” DePaul University transportation expert Joseph Schwieterman said.

Chuck Goudie takes a look at special instructions given to jurors by the judge in the Lindsay Clancy trial after they again said they’re deadlocked.

Anthony Zizzo kissed his wife goodbye and said he was going to a lunch meeting on Rush Street. Zizzo never made it, and his body never found.

The NBC Chicago investigative team gets an inside look at how the world’s largest water filtration plant is secured aganst cyberattacks

A judge ordered six more unaccompanied immigrant children to be deported Wednesday, according to the attorneys who represent them.

A cyberattack that targeted water infrastructure nationwide was much larger than initially revealed.

It’s a mystery unsolved for more than half a century, as the FBI continues it work to find a bomber responsible for an explosion at U-Wisconsin.