
Mark Rivera
Reporter and Anchor at WLS-TV (Chicago, IL)
Anchor & Reporter @ABC7Chicago.🇵🇷🇩🇪🏴News, black coffee, science, tech, politics. #ChicagoProud ✶✶✶✶ https://t.co/sOSSIU8nAy
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1 week ago |
abc7chicago.com | Mark Rivera
CHICAGO (WLS) -- An Illinois U.S. congressman has launched a formal inquiry following an ABC7 I-Team report on illegal weapons and gun parts entering the Chicago area allegedly from China through the O'Hare International Airport Postal Processing Center. In February, the I-Team reported on the concerning flow of ghost guns, gun parts, Glock switches and contraband coming into the Chicago area from companies in China.
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2 weeks ago |
abc7chicago.com | Mark Rivera
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WLS) -- State lawmakers are pushing for additional non-profit security grant program funding that has aided cultural and religious institutions across Illinois after the deadly Washington, D.C. attack that killed two Israeli embassy workers this week.
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2 weeks ago |
abc7chicago.com | Mark Rivera
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The suspect in an alleged targeted antisemitic deadly shooting in the nation's capital flew with his alleged murder weapon out of O'Hare airport Wednesday, court documents show. Elias Rodriguez, 31, of Chicago flew from O'Hare to Reagan National in Virginia. He declared his firearm in checked baggage on the Wednesday flight. He also bought a ticket three hours before it started to the Washington, D.C. event the couple he allegedly killed attended, according to the FBI.
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3 weeks ago |
abc7chicago.com | Mark Rivera
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Drones are fast becoming the must-have tool in policing. Now, the next generation is rising up in the Chicago area with drones that answer 911 calls on their own and an experimental drone system designed to stop would-be mass shooters, the ABC7 I-Team has learned. In suburban Oak Brook, the police department currently uses drones that are deployed and directed by humans.
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3 weeks ago |
abc7chicago.com | Mark Rivera
ByMark Rivera and Barb Markoff, Christine Tressel, Tom Jones, Maggie Green and Adriana AguilarFriday, May 16, 2025 3:32AMCHICAGO (WLS) -- Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), more commonly known as drones, are above and aloft now in many communities, and they're responding to crime in real time. Drone use by law enforcement is taking off in metro Chicago, and police tell the ABC7 I-Team the "eyes in the sky" are game changers in safety and surveillance.
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