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1 week ago | 
nbcchicago.com | Leigh Lesniak |PJ Randhawa
The next career opportunity to fill your inbox may be too good to be true. It may come in the form of a text message or an email from someone who says they're a job recruiter. Before you reply, consider who the message may really be coming from. With an increase in the country's unemployment rate -- 4.2 percent in March 2025 compared to 3.8 percent in March 2024 -- the job market is getting more and more competitive. And scammers are looking to take advantage, according to Francisco J.
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1 month ago | 
nbcchicago.com | PJ Randhawa |Leigh Lesniak
NBC 5 Responds is looking into your rights as an airline passenger after a French scientist was denied entry into the United States earlier this month. The French government claimed the scientist’s phone contained messages opposing the Trump administration, a claim officials deny. The scientist was supposed to attend a conference in Texas when he was turned away from entering the country.
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1 month ago | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Leigh Lesniak |PJ Randhawa
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Another Family Comes Forward The Strezewskis learned their daughter wasn't the only student at Woodlawn Middle School suffering from mold toxicity. Patrick Lee says his son, Isaac, has aged out of Woodlawn Middle School. But while Isaac was there, he started experiencing symptoms similar to Scarlett's. And Like Scarlett, Isaac tested positive for mycotoxin exposure.
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1 month ago | 
nbcchicago.com | Leigh Lesniak |PJ Randhawa
Two families from Long Grove say their children have been suffering from health problems for years. They believe the cause is rooted in their kids' public school. Scarlett Strezewski, 13, says she first noticed symptoms when she was 12 years old. "I would feel very dizzy and I would feel like the room was spinning. I would come down with these major headaches," Scarlett told NBC 5 Responds. The symptoms began while she was a student at Woodlawn Middle School.
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1 month ago | 
nbcchicago.com | Leigh Lesniak |PJ Randhawa
The National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration are investigating a close call at Chicago’s Midway Airport. On Tuesday, a Southwest Airlines plane had to divert its landing after a business jet entered the runway without authorization. Earlier in February, a Delta flight from Minneapolis skidded across a runway in Toronto. All of the 80 people on board survived. In January, we saw the deadliest American air disaster in nearly a quarter century.
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1 month ago | 
nbcchicago.com | Leigh Lesniak |PJ Randhawa
A suburban woman was bombarded with nearly $300,000 in medical bills after a change in health insurance companies led to retracted payments from the provider. Jacci Andersen showed NBC 5 Responds binders filled with hundreds of medical bills along with correspondence she's keeping from her doctors and health insurance companies. Andersen said one binder, around four inches thick, was just her communication with United Healthcare and Blue Cross Blue Shield.
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2 months ago | 
nbcchicago.com | PJ Randhawa |Leigh Lesniak
Your child's safety could be impacted by recalls issued this week by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. NBC 5 Responds looked at the top products that have the most units sold. • The electric scooters' lithium-ion batteries can overheat, smoke, melt and ignite, posing fire and burn hazards, posing a risk of serious injury and death.
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2 months ago | 
nbcchicago.com | PJ Randhawa |Leigh Lesniak
Editor's Note: Thursday, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulis is expected to hold a press conference to "clear up confusion" ahead of the deadline, about who needs to obtain one and why. The update, expected to take place at 11 a.m., will stream in the video player above once it begins. Come May 7, you'll need an Illinois Real ID or a U.S. Passport in order to board of domestic flight, and appointments to obtain the new ID are filling up.
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2 months ago | 
nbcchicago.com | Leigh Lesniak |PJ Randhawa
When his health insurance company denied medical claims for his son’s hospital stay in Chicago, Brandon Kennedy got creative. “I called my local union, the health department, health branch of the local union,” he said. Kennedy went to his union’s health trust, which overrode the insurance company’s denial. It saved him tens of thousands of dollars. Then there’s Jessica Wozniak, of Wheaton, who was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer at 35-years-old.
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2 months ago | 
nbcchicago.com | PJ Randhawa |Leigh Lesniak
NBC 5 Responds is taking a deep dive into health insurance denials and the creative solutions many are using to get their medical treatments approved. When a Wheaton woman’s cancer treatment was denied days before it was supposed to start, her desperate posts for help gained her an unexpected ally. At the start of 2024, 35-year-old Jessica Wosniak lived a very family-focused life with her husband and young daughter in Wheaton. “Just chasing after a toddler really, most of the time.
