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nbcchicago.com | JC Navarrete
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1 day ago | 
nbcchicago.com | Elise Solé
"Type B" moms are taking over social media, in a trend that's partly backlash against the perfect image of motherhood that dominates so much online content. Katie Ziemer is a “go with the flow” mom — her kitchen junk drawer is bursting, her children play in the mud and that garbage bag full of old clothes in the foyer? She’ll donate it (someday). “I’m not a super strict or structured person,” Ziemer, a stay-at-home mother of two, tells TODAY.com.
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nbcchicago.com | Jesse Pound
• JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said there is still "uncertainty" on the tariff front but the pauses are a positive for the economy and market. • Michael Feroli, the firm's chief U.S. economist, said in a note to clients on Tuesday that the recession outlook is "still elevated, but now below 50%."• "Even at this level, you see people holding back on investment and thinking through what they want to do," Dimon told Bloomberg Television.
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1 day ago | 
nbcchicago.com | JC Navarrete
Two people are in custody after a four-year-old boy riding inside a minivan was struck and critically injured by gunfire Wednesday in the city's McKinley Park neighborhood, according to Chicago police. Just after 8:30 p.m. in the 3100 block of South Ashland Avenue, a 23-year-old man was driving a minivan with a four-year-old boy inside when an unknown vehicle pulled up behind, police said. A suspect in the vehicle pulled out a gun and fired shots at the minivan, police said.
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1 day ago | 
nbcchicago.com | James Neveau
The chance for severe storms with "all weather hazards at play" loom over the Chicago area Thursday, along with high humidity and record-breaking temperatures in the 90s. Those weather threats include heavy rain, 75 mile-per-hour winds, large hail or even tornadoes, the NBC 5 Storm Team Meteorologist Alicia Roman said. But there's also a chance that the storms don't develop, Roman said, due to the dry air in place.
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1 day ago | 
nbcchicago.com | Chloe Taylor |Holly Ellyatt
This is CNBC's live blog covering European markets and business news. German foreign minister backs Trump's target of spending 5% of GDP on defenseOn Thursday, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul backed U.S. President Donald Trump's calls for NATO members to spend 5% of their gross domestic product on defense. Speaking on the sidelines of a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Turkey, Wadephul said Germany was following Trump's proposal in this respect.
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1 day ago | 
nbcchicago.com | JC Navarrete
A young boy is fighting for his life after he was critically injured in a McKinley Park shooting. According to Chicago police, the boy was in a minivan in the 3100 block of South Ashland just after 7 p.m. when a vehicle pulled up behind the van. Someone inside that vehicle fired shots at the vehicle before fleeing the scene. The young boy was shot in the back and was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was listed in critical condition, police said.
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1 day ago | 
nbcchicago.com | James Neveau
The Chicago area will face all manner of severe weather threats on Thursday, including a chance of damaging winds, large hail and even tornadoes. According to the Storm Prediction Center, a swath of northeastern Illinois, including McHenry, Lake, DeKalb, Kane, DuPage, and Cook counties, is at an “enhanced” risk of severe weather, the third of five levels of storm potential. Lake, Porter, and LaPorte counties in northwest Indiana are also at that threat level.
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1 day ago | 
nbcchicago.com | Emily Rose Grassi
The husband of a Chester County woman who went missing in 2017 has been charged with her murder, according to officials. Allen Gould, 60, was arrested on Wednesday, May 15, 2025, eight years after his wife, Anna Maciejewska, was reported missing when she didn't show up for work in April of 2017. According to court documents, Gould reported Maciejewska as missing on April 12, 2017. He told officials that he saw her two days before while she was leaving for work.
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nbcchicago.com | Lexi Sutter
The kitchen where deep dish pizza was invented can unsurprisingly be found in a Chicago kitchen, but where? There’s a lot of passion for Chicago-style pizza, but it turns out the chefs actually “stumbled upon” the now-staple's recipe. Deep dish pizza started as a snack for customers drinking alcohol inside a bar owned by Chicago businessman Ike Sewell.