#  @abc7chicago abc7chicago Several recent events have been reported in Chicago, including a large fire on the Northwest side, a protest after a daycare worker was arrested by immigration agents, and a street takeover on the North side. Additionally, there have been reports of shootings, including one on the North side that left four people injured, and a stabbing in the South suburbs that left several people injured. 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Watch Eyewitness News at [--] p.m. for the latest updates. #news #chicagonews #chicago" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7603963761950575902) 2026-02-07T03:43Z 3M followers, 11K engagements "The goal was to raise more than $2 million and the Chicago Auto Show First Look for Charity gala accomplished just that Friday night. #news #chicagonews #chicago #chicagoautoshow" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7603976172136926494) 2026-02-07T04:31Z 3M followers, 23.3K engagements "Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker suggested on Monday that the state is making progress in talks with the Chicago Bears. It comes as the pressure is mounting for the state to act soon to counter attempts to lure the team to northwest Indiana. #news #chicagonews #chicagobears #bears #nfl #football #arlingtonheights #chicago #gary #indiana" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7605001661370682654) 2026-02-09T22:50Z 3M followers, 37.6K engagements "Freshman Michigan State University basketball player Jeremy Fears Jr. was shot in his hometown in Chicago's southern suburbs overnight MSU Athletics said in a statement. #news #msu #basketball #jeremyfears Freshman MSU basketball player Jeremy Fears Jr. shot in hometown Freshman MSU basketball player Jeremy Fears Jr. shot in hometown" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7315941035585195295) 2023-12-23T23:47Z 2.9M followers, 163.8K engagements "US military's X-37B space plane blasts off on secretive mission #news #fyp #spacex #rocket" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7318106225084828959) 2023-12-29T19:50Z 2.9M followers, 13.3K engagements "Doctors have called Opill the first over-the-counter birth control pill a "game changer." #birthcontrol #opill #womenshealth" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7342705482223602975) 2024-03-05T02:48Z 2.9M followers, [----] engagements ""I think he's great. A life saver": A high school coach saved his student-athlete's life by performing CPR for [--] minutes after she collapsed in sudden cardiac arrest. #news #cpr #hero" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7371247056268119326) 2024-05-21T00:51Z 2.9M followers, 308.2K engagements "Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders the former Apollo [--] astronaut who took the iconic "Earthrise" photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in [----] died in a plane crash Friday in Washington state. #news #earthrise #williamanders #apollo8 #space" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7378165248420891934) 2024-06-08T16:15Z 2.9M followers, 80.9K engagements "Tributes are pouring in Sunday for a 21-year-old gymnast from Plainfield who was fatally shot Friday night inside her college apartment in Wisconsin" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7409816384596741407) 2024-09-01T23:12Z 2.9M followers, 583.4K engagements "A shooting left one person injured in a parking lot at North Illinois University police said. The shooting happened on Sunday. The exact time of the shooting was not released by police. It took place on the west side of campus police said. Anyone with information is asked to contact NIU Department of Police and Public Safety at 815-753-1212 or DeKalb police at 815-748-8400" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7427805562106170654) 2024-10-20T10:40Z 2.9M followers, 3.4M engagements "An ATM was stolen from a North Side business early Monday morning in a smash-and-grab burglary. #chicago #smashandgrab #burglary" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7436213786232507679) 2024-11-12T02:27Z 2.9M followers, 78.4K engagements "Sean Combs' new application for bail should be denied because the music mogul "poses serious risks of danger and obstruction" to his criminal sex trafficking case federal prosecutors argued in an overnight court filing. #news #diddy #seancombs" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7438288978232560926) 2024-11-17T16:40Z 2.9M followers, 381K engagements "A cryptocurrency entrepreneur who bought a piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana duct-taped to a wall for $6.2 million last week ate the fruit in Hong Kong. #news #banana #art" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7443501581967838494) 2024-12-01T17:48Z [--] followers, 1.5M engagements "A 5-year-old girl is dead after she was attacked by her family dogs at her home in California on Sunday authorities say. Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies were called to a home in a gated community in the [----] block of Palomino Drive in Covina around noon on Sunday. They discovered that a 5-year-old girl had been attacked by the two family dogs in the backyard of the home. Los Angeles County Fire paramedics brought the girl to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead at 1:23 p.m. Investigators say the dogs responsible for the attack are a 10-year-old Rottweiler and a 6-year-old" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7446384776350633247) 2024-12-09T12:16Z 2.9M followers, 24M engagements "One person is dead after a shooting Thursday evening inside "The Levee" bar on the city's Northwest Side Chicago police said.#news #chicagonews #chicago" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7447751737588354334) 2024-12-13T04:40Z 2.9M followers, 1.2M engagements "Luigi Mangione on Monday pleaded not guilty to state murder and terror charges in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as his attorney protested his treatment in court saying her client is being used as "political fodder" by police and the mayor of New York City. The 26-year-old Mangione entered the Manhattan courtroom in shackles and under heavy guard" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7451683024992881950) 2024-12-23T18:56Z 2.9M followers, 1.1M engagements "Villa Park police issued a warning of dangerous takeovers in the western suburb. It comes after a high-speed crash and serious accident Friday night along North Avenue. On Saturday police say crowds and vehicles took over private business lots near North and Villa avenues. At one point a crowd formed to block an arrest. There was also an unsubstantiated claim of a few people with guns. Offenders face a $900 fee and risk getting their tires spiked" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7451684693285571871) 2024-12-23T19:02Z 2.9M followers, 2.9M engagements "Gypsy Rose Blanchard the Missouri woman sent to prison for the murder of her mother is now a mom according to a photo shared on Instagram by her partner Ken Urker. The photo posted Wednesday shows Blanchard in a hospital bed holding a newborn baby alongside Urker who is standing next to the bed with his hand on the baby. "Welcoming [----] with the greatest gift of all " Urker captioned the photo. A representative for Blanchard confirmed to ABC News Wednesday that Blanchard and the baby are "doing well." Blanchard first announced her pregnancy in July sharing a photo collage on Instagram of her" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7455320597694909726) 2025-01-02T14:12Z [--] followers, 6.7M engagements "The incoming first lady Melania Trump made her way to Capitol Hill wearing a navy blue outfit with a matching hat for the inauguration of her husband President-elect Trump. American designer Adam Lippes designed the ensemble. #inaugurationday #inauguration #news #abcnews" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7462041799704595742) 2025-01-20T16:53Z [--] followers, 768.3K engagements "Chicago police are searching for four suspects after two female victims were robbed in the Chicago Pedway underground tunnel system in the Loop. #chicagonews #chicago #news" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7464081728802458911) 2025-01-26T04:49Z 2.9M followers, 823.1K engagements "President Donald Trump is expected to pardon ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich [--] years after commuting his sentence multiple reports say. #trump #blago #pardon #illinois" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7469880962550107422) 2025-02-10T19:54Z 2.9M followers, 304.5K engagements "Charlie Jacobsma slapped the surface of a pool enclosure at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium and scanned the water for movement. Moments later the head of a beluga calf emerged mouth agape in what looked like a smile. Jacobsma's face lit up in response as he cooed to the calf like a human parent to a toddler. Shedd's animal care team described its newest resident born to 35-year-old resident beluga Naya in July [----] as just that. "Like a toddler that's learning to talk and making noises he's the same way" said Jacobsma director of animal behavior and training at Shedd. "He's just constantly growing" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7471999974364957982) 2025-02-16T12:57Z 2.9M followers, 1.6M engagements "Firefighters are working to put out a fire at an apartment building Saturday in the southwest suburbs. Residents stood outside feeling helpless as they watched their homes and all of their belongings get destroyed by the massive fire. #news #chicagonews #justiceillinois" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7474385121467026719) 2025-02-22T23:12Z [--] followers, 152.3K engagements "Fabric and crafts retailer Joann Inc. is going out of business and shuttering all its stores. #joann #craft" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7475164700951498015) 2025-02-25T01:36Z 2.9M followers, 6.1M engagements "A Sunshine Coast snake catcher had to show he could tackled four-legged uninvited guests too when a goanna was found strutting around a kitchen much to the surprise of the homeowner. Footage posted from Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7 shows the bold reptile roaming around the house before the catcher does his thing and safely returns it to the wild. Imagine the surprise when the homeowner walked in and found their new REPTILIAN roommate the caption read. This cheeky lizard thought it found the perfect Airbnb right inside a homeowners kitchen" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7475834988521409823) 2025-02-27T05:55Z 2.9M followers, 82.5K engagements "The search for a possible dog killer is underway in Amador County California. "Oso" was found with a small gunshot wound in the neck which the sheriff's office said looked consistent to a pellet or small caliber bullet. "I do feel very uneasy that someone would feel comfortable shooting towards my house where my kids play outside every day" Palumbo said. Sheriff deputies and the family have talked to neighbors but have no leads yet" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7478057724194852126) 2025-03-04T21:00Z 2.9M followers, 1.2M engagements "One person was killed and another was injured in a shooting Wednesday outside of a church on the city's West Side Chicago police said. #news #chicagonews #chicago" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7491517133235506462) 2025-04-10T03:13Z 2.9M followers, 111.5K engagements "The online predators part of the network known as "764" demand victims send them photos and videos of it all so the shocking content can be shared with fellow [---] followers or used to extort victims for more. Some of the predators even host "watch parties" for others to watch them torment victims live online according to authorities" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7501330188563647790) 2025-05-06T13:53Z [--] followers, 808K engagements "A popular brand of children's cough syrup is under a voluntary recall over concerns it's contaminated with bacteria. The recall involves five lots of "Little Remedies" honey cough syrup according to the FDA. #news #littleremedies #coughsyrup #recall" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7517748307205147935) 2025-06-19T19:43Z 2.9M followers, 2.2M engagements "A 15-year-old boy was struck by lightning in New York City's Central Park during a round of severe thunderstorms on Thursday. Yassin Khalifa a high school sophomore was enjoying a picnic in Central Park with friends when the storm suddenly blew in. #news #nyc #newyork #centralpark #lightning #lightningstrike #weather" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7518008324923706654) 2025-06-20T12:32Z 2.9M followers, 735.1K engagements "A mother in Atlanta Georgia was able to speak her first words to her son after months of being paralyzed due to a rare autoimmune disorder footage published to TikTok shows. Mallory Wilkerson a 26-year-old mother of one said she was hospitalized with Guillain-Barre syndrome a rare condition that causes the immune system to attack the bodys nerves. I woke up one morning to a tingling sensation in my hands and feet. Within a week I was completely paralysed and on a ventilator Wilkerson told Storyful. After initially receiving care in Louisville Kentucky Wilkerson was transferred to Atlanta to" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7520264426574957855) 2025-06-26T14:27Z 2.9M followers, 279.1K engagements "The Pentagon released jaw-dropping footage on June [--] of a test showing the same kind of bomb used to target Iranian nuclear facilities. Footage shown during a press conference led by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of The Joint Staff Air Force General Dan Caine show the test of a 30000-pound GBU-57 massive ordnance penetrator bomb. The Department of Defense said the bunker buster bomb was used by US forces on June [--] as they targeted Irans Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant. During the press conference Hegseth unleashed on the press corps singling out journalists in the room after" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7520663283842567454) 2025-06-27T16:15Z 2.9M followers, 2.5M engagements "The first television ad has hit the airway in the hotly contested race for a U.S. Senate seat. Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi spent half-a-million dollars on his new statewide television and digital ad campaign. #news #politics #senate #congress #illinois" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7527450635898326303) 2025-07-15T23:13Z 2.9M followers, 16.4K engagements "For the first time many people in the United States who want to protect themselves against the flu this respiratory virus season can order a vaccine to give themselves at home. #flu" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7538890840786210078) 2025-08-15T19:07Z 2.9M followers, 52.5K engagements "The Chicago Cubs have clinched the top NL wild card and home-field advantage in the first round. The last time the Cubs hosted a postseason game at Wrigley Field with fans in attendance was [----]. #news #chicagonews #chicago #cubs #chicagocubs" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7554907644557823262) 2025-09-27T23:00Z 2.9M followers, 219.7K engagements "More than three months after he was shot a Chicago teenager will move from a hospital to a rehab facility this week. Jeremy Herred Jr. now [--] years old was left paralyzed and a ventilator. A second teen died in the shooting at Douglass Park which happened over the summer. Jeremy's family is offering nonstop support as the criminal justice system makes slow progress in the prosecution of the former lifeguard accused in the shooting. #news #chicago #chicagonews #douglasspark" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7558245102280297758) 2025-10-06T22:51Z 2.9M followers, 154.2K engagements "A suspect has been charged with fatally shooting a man at a north suburban birthday party on Friday night the Lake County Sheriff's Office said. #news #chicagonews #lakecounty" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7560469258497461535) 2025-10-12T22:42Z 2.9M followers, 97.7K engagements "A man was shot and killed Sunday evening outside of a house in Northwest Indiana during a "domestic disturbance" the sheriff said. #news #chicagonews #lakecounty #indiana" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7560540084777372959) 2025-10-13T03:17Z 2.9M followers, 680.4K engagements "The suspect in the fatal shooting of San Bernardino County Sheriff's Deputy Andrew Nuez was identified Tuesday while flags flew at half-staff statewide in honor of the fallen law enforcement officer. The alleged gunman and high-speed chase suspect was identified as Angelo Jose Saldivar [--] a resident of San Bernardino California. #news #california #sanbernardinocounty #policechase" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7566415878884019486) 2025-10-28T23:18Z 2.9M followers, 112.6K engagements "Three people are facing charges after a Texas man says he was kidnapped at gunpoint and forced to have sex by a woman who identified herself as "Cookie." nail glue no silver beads giving myself a bridge piercing nail glue no silver beads giving myself a bridge piercing" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7567124189115682078) 2025-10-30T21:06Z 3M followers, 668.5K engagements "Kimberly-Clark is buying Tylenol maker Kenvue in a cash and stock deal worth about $48.7 billion creating a massive consumer health goods company. #tylenol" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7568591658187590943) 2025-11-03T20:01Z [--] followers, 300.7K engagements "U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth has fired a staffer accused of misrepresenting himself as an attorney and falsifying an official form to visit and secure the release of a Staunton restaurant owner detained by immigration agents. Duckworth sent the letter a copy of which was obtained by Capitol News Illinois to Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Todd Lyons on Monday notifying him that staffer Edward York has been terminated. #news #tammyduckworth" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7574254008613817630) 2025-11-19T02:14Z 2.9M followers, 36.1K engagements "1PM UPDATE: A Winter Storm Warning is in effect for the Chicago area until [--] a.m. Sunday as several inches of snow are expected to drop in the next [--] hours" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7578232384009555230) 2025-11-29T19:32Z 2.9M followers, 273.1K engagements "Fear is now turning to anger after a former Little Village Chamber of Commerce staff member appeared to have been caught on video thanking federal agents who were arresting neighborhood residents in immigration action. #news #chicagonews #chicago" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7579762531799944479) 2025-12-03T22:30Z 2.9M followers, 148.9K engagements "Paramount has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. #netflix #paramount" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7581571186488872223) 2025-12-08T19:28Z 2.9M followers, 76.3K engagements "Residents who were told to stay in their homes said they saw officers in tactical gear with long guns a command vehicle and drones in the air. #news #chicagonews #streamwood" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7582449023630527774) 2025-12-11T04:15Z [--] followers, 190.5K engagements "The release contains what appears to be first known report to federal law enforcement that Epstein was involved in child sexual exploitation: a September [----] complaint filed with the FBI's Miami office accusing Epstein of participating in "child pornography" more than eight years before the first law enforcement investigation into Epstein was launched. #news #chicagonews #nationalnews #jeffreyepstein #epstein #epsteinfiles" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7585804031273078047) 2025-12-20T05:14Z 2.9M followers, 441.2K engagements "A 62-year-old victim was beaten and severely injured on a CTA bus by three teenage suspects last week on the city's West Side police said. #news #chicagonews #chicago" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7586531889557622047) 2025-12-22T04:18Z [--] followers, 928K engagements "Chicago police said they are speaking with a person or people of interest in a violent attack on a CTA bus last Tuesday. The crime happened around 5:40 p.m. Dec. [--] in the 700-block of South Cicero Avenue as the bus approached I-290 from Roosevelt Road police said" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7586659148146691358) 2025-12-22T12:32Z 2.9M followers, 76.2K engagements "Cybercriminals are using Grok AI on X to lure users into clicking bad links in video threads cybersecurity experts say" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7586840204900584734) 2025-12-23T00:15Z 2.9M followers, 490.4K engagements "As holiday commuters continue to snarl up traffic around the downtown Loop the ABC7 I-Team has learned a Chicago River bridge that was closed for repairs most of this year is not reopening anytime soon. This is the second time that the reopening of the State Street bridge downtown has been delayed. #news #chicago #chicagonews #chicagoriver #traffic #construction" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7586856567891414303) 2025-12-23T01:18Z 2.9M followers, 138.3K engagements "Three teens have been accused of sexually assaulting a female classmate at a suburban high school graduation party the DuPage County State's Attorney's Office said Tuesday. On June [--] Roselle police were notified of a criminal sexual assault that had allegedly occurred at a Saint Viator High School graduation party in Roselle the night before officials said" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7587571292933524766) 2025-12-24T23:32Z 2.9M followers, 2.2M engagements "tow truck driver rear-ended another vehicle and shot at the car hitting its windshield early Friday morning downtown Chicago police said. A 34-year-old woman was driving a gray Chevy SUV south in the 800-block of North La Salle Drive in River North about 3:50 a.m. near the tow truck Chicago police said" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7588220414518660382) 2025-12-26T17:31Z 2.9M followers, 207.7K engagements "Two juveniles were arrested after a large disturbance inside the Louis Joliet Mall Saturday Joliet police said" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7589493707292937502) 2025-12-30T03:52Z 2.9M followers, 677.6K engagements "Online sportsbooks will be able to legally operate in Chicago after the city provided some 11th-hour licenses just in time for the new year. #news #chicagonews #chicago #sportsbet" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7590193866364505374) 2026-01-01T01:08Z 2.9M followers, 392.9K engagements "Nicor Gas on Friday filed a $221 million rate hike request with the Illinois Commerce Commission less than two months after state regulators approved a $168 million rate hike for the utility. #news #chicagonews #illinois #nicor" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7593554343471631646) 2026-01-10T02:29Z 2.9M followers, 50.6K engagements "A look at what Article [--] of the NATO treat says and what it promises to NATO members. #news #greenland #nato #trump #donaldtrump #politics" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7593711492323642654) 2026-01-10T12:39Z 2.9M followers, 10.2K engagements "A man was seriously hurt in a CTA stabbing on the South Side early Sunday Chicago police said. The crime happened at about 2:51 a.m. near the CTA Red Line 69th Station police said. A 34-year-old man got into an argument with an unknown suspect police said. The suspect then stabbed the victim in the chest. The victim was taken to U of C Hospital in serious condition according to police" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7594086164357860638) 2026-01-11T12:54Z 2.9M followers, 78.6K engagements "The body of a Chicago Public Schools teacher who went missing over one week ago was pulled from Lake Michigan on Monday morning the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office said. The medical examiner said Robert Healy Elementary special education teacher Linda Brown's body was found in the water in the 3100-block of South Lake Shore Drive on the city's South Side just before noon. #news #chicagonews #cps #teacher" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7594605098723020062) 2026-01-12T22:26Z 2.9M followers, 5.8M engagements "Two teenage boys have been charged in a violent sexual assault that happened in a west suburban Walgreens bathroom on Sunday afternoon officials said. The younger teen allegedly recorded the attack. #news #chicagonews #naperville" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7595006746804882718) 2026-01-14T00:25Z 2.9M followers, 1.5M engagements "The US Supreme Court allowed Rep. Mike Bost to challenge how Illinois counts mail-in ballots in a decision Wednesday" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7595353560578002206) 2026-01-14T22:51Z 2.9M followers, 259.7K engagements "Former DePaul Blue Demon basketball players were among college basketball players accused in a point-shaving scheme to fix basketball games according to an indictment unsealed Thursday" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7595732137089699102) 2026-01-15T23:20Z 3M followers, 54.4K engagements "Using acetaminophen during pregnancy does not increase a child's risk of autism ADHD or intellectual disability a major new review published Friday finds. #news #acetaminophen #tylenol #autism #adhd #health #medicine" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7596308183530982687) 2026-01-17T12:36Z 2.9M followers, 207.8K engagements "A third round of retaliatory strikes by the U.S. in Syria resulted in the death of an Al-Qaeda-affiliated leader who officials say had a direct tie to an ambush that killed two U.S. soldiers and one American civilian interpreter in the country. #news #chicagonews #chicago #worldnews" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7596474515979341087) 2026-01-17T23:21Z 2.9M followers, 1.1M engagements "The leaders of all [--] European Union nations will meet for an "extraordinary meeting" later this week European Council President Antonio Costa said on Sunday in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's escalating pressure campaign to acquire Greenland. Costa said he had called the meeting due to the "significance of recent developments." European leaders are mobilizing after Trump on Saturday announced a 10% tariff to be imposed on all goods sent to the U.S. from eight NATO nations -- Denmark Norway Sweden France Germany the U.K. the Netherlands and Finland -- that recently sent small" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7597086320774712607) 2026-01-19T14:55Z 2.9M followers, 5.8M engagements "There was a large police presence at an officer-involved shooting scene Wednesday afternoon in Aurora. #news #chicagonews #aurora" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7597940979873680671) 2026-01-21T22:11Z 2.9M followers, 244.9K engagements "A knife-wielding suspect was injured in a police-involved shooting Wednesday afternoon in Aurora officials said. #news #chicagonews #aurora" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7597950137763204383) 2026-01-21T22:47Z 2.9M followers, 100.2K engagements "The trial for a man accused of putting a bounty on the life of Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino won't be a long one. Testimony began and ended Wednesday. #news #chicagonews #chicago" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7597953447966575902) 2026-01-21T23:00Z 2.9M followers, 18.8K engagements "Here are tips to safeguard homes against the dangerous cold in the Chicago area this week. #news #chicagonews #chicago #weather #cold" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7598313666810826014) 2026-01-22T22:18Z 3M followers, 259.5K engagements "The state of Illinois has launched an investigation into what prompted the immigration raid of a South Side apartment complex last summer alleging housing discrimination could be involved. #news #chicagonews #chicago" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7598324599956245790) 2026-01-22T23:00Z 2.9M followers, 17.8K engagements "Police in Suffolk County New York wondered if a buck was looking for bucks after a deer smashed through a bank window and trashed the place on Sunday January [--]. This bodycam footage from the Suffolk County Police Department shows the distressed and bloodied animal crashing into bank-teller barriers and leaping on desks. Police wrote on Facebook: Officers responding to a burglary alarm at a Ridge bank Sunday were met with an unexpected intruder. Officers were able to calm and lasso the buck before guiding him out to freedom via the same window he came in video shows. The department thanked" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7598569273174363422) 2026-01-23T14:50Z 2.9M followers, 15.9K engagements "The one Operation Midway Blitz case that made it to trial for an alleged murder-for-hire plot resulted in a not guilty verdict. It's a shocking turn of events to experts who tell the ABC7 I-Team the office typically has a more than 90% conviction rate. #news #chicagonews #chicago" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7598748396563762463) 2026-01-24T02:24Z 2.9M followers, 33.7K engagements "Chicago police shot and seriously injured a suspect accused of shooting a woman and firing shots at officers on the city's South Side on Friday night officials said. Police said officers responded to a domestic disturbance call regarding a male armed with a gun and a knife in the Grand Crossing neighborhood's 7900-block of South Ingleside Avenue just after 7:45 p.m. #news #chicagonews #chicago" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7598893232470232350) 2026-01-24T11:48Z 2.9M followers, 32.6K engagements "Chicago police are searching for burglars wanted in multiple business break-ins and ATM thefts across the city. #news #chicagonews #chicago" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7599109143177301279) 2026-01-25T01:44Z [--] followers, 211.4K engagements "In the last months of World War II Lola Kantorowicz tried her best to hide her pregnancy. She succeeded up until nearly the end because most of the prisoners at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp had bellies that were distended and bloated from extended starvation. As she went into labor in March [----] the Russians were advancing through Germany and Bergen-Belsen was in absolute chaos. Her daughter Ilana was born on March [--] [--] days before the camp was liberated by the British. Now [--] Ilana Kantorowicz Shalem is one of the youngest Holocaust survivors. She survived only because she was born" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7600058259910790430) 2026-01-27T15:25Z 2.9M followers, 14.1K engagements "A dog in New Hampshire momentarily disappeared as it leapt into more than a foot of snow after a winter storm passed over large parts of the US. This footage taken by X user @WeatherReMarks shows his English springer spaniel jumping into the pure powder in Durham New Hampshire on Monday January [--]. Durham got [----] inches of snow by Monday according to the source and a local news report" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7600121368721640734) 2026-01-27T19:12Z 2.9M followers, [----] engagements "Amazon said it's closing all of its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh locations as the online behemoth focuses on its grocery delivery Whole Foods Market and a new "supersized" store concept. #amazon" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7600221215818648862) 2026-01-28T01:40Z 2.9M followers, 2.9M engagements "Oswego police asked residents for surveillance footage of a masked suspect after a woman was found killed. The woman was found dead in the 400-block of Valentine Way on Tuesday at about 1:10 p.m. according to police. Local police were able to find the suspect after a witness reported seeing him running southbound across Wolfs Crossing Road" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7600464284212137246) 2026-01-28T17:23Z 2.9M followers, 231.6K engagements "A newly emerged video appears to show Alex Pretti in a confrontation with federal agents [--] days before he was shot and killed in Minneapolis. There are growing calls in Chicago to strip funding from DHS. Watch Eyewitness News tonight at [--] p.m. on ABC7 for more. #news #chicagonews #worldnews #ice #dhs #borderpatol #minneapolis #minnesota #alexpretti #chicago #illinois" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7600619387900546335) 2026-01-29T03:25Z 2.9M followers, 55.6K engagements "Fires just miles apart in West Englewood have left one woman dead and another seriously injured Chicago police said. The first fire was at about 10:15 p.m. Tuesday in the 7000-block of South Bell Avenue. Police said firefighters responded to the scene extinguished the fire and found a 75-year-old woman with burns on her body. The woman was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center where she was later pronounced dead police said. No other injuries were reported" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7600790894933052702) 2026-01-29T14:31Z 2.9M followers, [----] engagements "ABC7 Chicago will present the [----] Democratic U.S. Senate Primary Forum on Thursday Jan. [--] at [--] p.m. #news #chicagonews #chicago #senate #elections #illinois" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7600919364841262367) 2026-01-29T22:49Z 2.9M followers, [----] engagements "A water main break closed two schools in south suburban Dixmoor Thursday but it has since been repaired the village said. ABC7 was told this was the fourth water main break there this month" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7600959792160492831) 2026-01-30T01:26Z 2.9M followers, 27.1K engagements "A suspected gas leak and home explosion in Oswego caused the massive fire that rattled neighboring homes. Oswego fire officials say the people who lived in that home are still unaccounted for. #news #chicagonews #oswego" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7601002632345439518) 2026-01-30T04:12Z 2.9M followers, 62.8K engagements "The man charged with murdering a pregnant woman in Downers Grove was critically injured from apparent self-inflicted wounds in custody after he appeared in court Thursday morning officials said. #news #chicagonews #downersgrove" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7601010257468329247) 2026-01-30T04:42Z 2.9M followers, 632.9K engagements "U.S. Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi and Robin Kelly and Illinois Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton participated in a Democratic Senate Primary Forum Thursday night presented by ABC7. #news #chicagonews #chicago #illinois #senate #elections" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7601015325240380702) 2026-01-30T05:01Z [--] followers, 16.5K engagements "A vehicle spun multiple times after its driver lost control on an ice-covered road in Austin Texas on Monday January [--]. Footage taken by Tucker Wise shows the car twirling down a hill in Austin making several 360-degree spins before stopping near the bottom of the hill. Wise told Storyful: The roadway was completely iced over and the vehicle was unable to stop or steer slowly sliding downhill before coming to a stop. No one was injured. The National Weather Service warned that roads would be dangerous because of ice caused by packed down sleet and freezing rain accumulation in the Austin" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7601168258145848606) 2026-01-30T14:55Z [--] followers, 10K engagements "Harvey Mayor Christopher J. Clark has died the south suburban city said in a statement on Friday morning. #news #chicagonews #harvey" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7601205662743268639) 2026-01-30T17:20Z 2.9M followers, 38.1K engagements "New video shows a Chicago surgeon charged in an Ohio double murder behind bars. #news #chicagonews #chicago #ohio" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7601210680225598750) 2026-01-30T17:39Z [--] followers, 158.6K engagements "Israel said Friday that it will reopen the pedestrian border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt over the weekend marking an important step forward for U.S. President Donald Trump's Gaza ceasefire plan" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7601254311095487775) 2026-01-30T20:29Z 2.9M followers, 13.7K engagements "Aggressive tactics used during Operation Midway Blitz sparked fears frustrations and pushback from community members raising serious questions about the legality and legitimacy of the federal enforcement actions. #news #chicagonews #chicago #illinois #ice #worldnews #dhs #borderpatol" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7601297547012869406) 2026-01-30T23:17Z 2.9M followers, 17.4K engagements "Demonstrators in the Chicago area and across the country are calling for a national shutdown that includes "no shopping no school and no work" on Friday in response to the nationwide immigration crackdown. #news #chicago #chicagonews #ice #dhs #borderpatol" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7601306287510474014) 2026-01-30T23:50Z 2.9M followers, 26.1K engagements "The Senate voted Friday to fund most of the government through the end of September after President Donald Trump made a deal with Democrats to carve out Homeland Security funding and allow Congress to debate new restrictions on federal immigration raids across the country. #news #chicagonews #worldnews #senate" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7601312956512603422) 2026-01-31T00:16Z 2.9M followers, 488.2K engagements "Federal prosecutors said nine people have been charged after a series of raids Thursday on the Near West Side South Side and in the western suburbs" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7601333509306862878) 2026-01-31T01:36Z 2.9M followers, 213.6K engagements "The friend of a woman allegedly killed by her ex-husband during a home invasion in Oswego calls her a kind genuine person. She leaves behind six children and her current husband. #news #chicagonews #oswego" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7601383843911748895) 2026-01-31T04:51Z 2.9M followers, 40.7K engagements "Bursts of lake-effect snow are continuing to fall in the Chicago area on Saturday. ABC7's Christian Piekos is in the ABC7 Storm Tracker in northwest Indiana where the snow is impacting road conditions. #news #chicagonews #chicago #weather #snow" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7601496671687593247) 2026-01-31T12:10Z 2.9M followers, 46.8K engagements "Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order on Saturday directing Chicago police to investigate any alleged illegal activity by federal immigration agents. During the signing Johnson said the city must prepare for agents to potentially return to Chicago in the spring. #news #chicagonews #chicago #immigration #brandonjohnson" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7601583676861811998) 2026-01-31T17:47Z [--] followers, 103.9K engagements "Illinois Governor JB Pritzker contributed $5 million dollars to a super PAC supporting his Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton according to FEC records. She's one of multiple Democrats running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Dick Durbin. #news #chicagonews #illinois" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7601754840859036959) 2026-02-01T04:51Z [--] followers, 98.4K engagements "Police shut down the Edens Expressway on Sunday morning amid a multi-vehicle crash in Skokie. Illinois State Police confirmed all northbound lanes of I-94 were closed due to a multi-vehicle crash near Dempster Street" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7601868119455321374) 2026-02-01T12:12Z [--] followers, 300.6K engagements "A water main break in Dixmoor is impacting more than half of the south suburban community on Sunday officials said. #news #chicagonews #dixmoor #water #watermainbreak" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7602041286060756254) 2026-02-01T23:23Z 2.9M followers, 14.1K engagements "Park Ridge Illinois native Alex Pretti a 37-year-old ICU nurse at a VA hospital was shot and killed by Border Patrol agents last weekend in Minneapolis. Demonstrators say they are honoring a hero and standing on the right side of history #news #chicagonews #alexpretti #minnesota #minneapolis" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7602118618846940446) 2026-02-02T04:23Z [--] followers, 59.6K engagements "Another water main break in Dixmoor has some residents continuing to struggle without water Monday morning. The water main break has impacted more than half of the community" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7602241870680313119) 2026-02-02T12:21Z 2.9M followers, 12.6K engagements "An 84-year-old woman who was reported missing in Arizona has been identified by officials as the mother of "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie. The Pima County Sheriff's Department announced during a news conference on Sunday that Nancy Guthrie was last seen in the Catalina Foothills area on Saturday night at approximately 9:45 p.m" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7602243791738637598) 2026-02-02T12:28Z 2.9M followers, 22.8K engagements "There is evidence of a crime at the home of the missing 84-year-old mother of "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie according to authorities in Arizona. Nancy Guthrie was last seen in the Catalina Foothills area on Saturday night according to the Pima County Sheriff's Department. Her family reported her missing on Sunday around noon local time authorities said" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7602349653534723359) 2026-02-02T19:19Z [--] followers, 21.8K engagements "Authorities investigating the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie the mother of Today anchor Savannah Guthrie are treating her home as a crime scene and are asking for the publics help solving the case" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7602356956245871903) 2026-02-02T19:47Z 2.9M followers, 17.5K engagements "Hurricane-force wind gusts from a bomb cyclone collapsed several homes on North Carolinas Outer Banks into the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7602357801326873887) 2026-02-02T20:10Z 2.9M followers, 13.1K engagements "The Justice Department said Monday that it had taken down several thousand documents and "media" that may have inadvertently included victim-identifying information" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7602402797547506975) 2026-02-02T22:45Z [--] followers, 26.3K engagements "Homeland Security officers now being issued a body-worn camera Noem says" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7602403343562001694) 2026-02-02T22:47Z 2.9M followers, 28.3K engagements "Chicago police are searching for a 71-year-old man who disappeared from the city's South Side last month. Keith Williams may show signs of dementia and has a scar on his face. #news #chicagonews #chicago #missingperson #missingman" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7602410289748921631) 2026-02-02T23:14Z 2.9M followers, [----] engagements "A former CPD chief of detectives calls the mayor's order on federal investigations political theater" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7602416501118831903) 2026-02-02T23:38Z 2.9M followers, 32.5K engagements "A new piece of history is coming to life in the sport of golf. Northwestern University credits Horace Morgan McDougal with being the first Black intercollegiate golfer. #news #chicagonews #chicago #golf #history #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth #northwestern" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7602428817432481054) 2026-02-03T00:26Z 2.9M followers, 11.3K engagements "The race to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Dick Durbin who's retiring later this year is heating up. T" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7602429764808281374) 2026-02-03T00:30Z 2.9M followers, [----] engagements "There's a special Harvey City Council meeting Monday night following the unexpected death of the mayor" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7602436289614384415) 2026-02-03T00:55Z 2.9M followers, 22.7K engagements "No nominee received the required four votes needed to take over the rest of the late Harvey Mayor Christopher Clark's term at a special Harvey City Council meeting on Monday night. The task to replace him comes at a critical time for Harvey residents and the south suburban city which is currently in financial distress. #news #chicagonews #harvey" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7602493146580258078) 2026-02-03T04:36Z 2.9M followers, 24.8K engagements "- Journalist Don Lemon appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" Monday night for his first interview following his arrest last week. Federal agents arrested Lemon while he was in Los Angeles covering the Grammy Awards. The Department of Justice said his arrest was sparked by his coverage of an anti-ICE protest during a church service in Minnesota. "I'm not going to let them steal my joy but this is very serious. I mean these are federal criminal charges" Lemon said at the start of the interview" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7602614662999428383) 2026-02-03T12:28Z 2.9M followers, 16.9K engagements "President Donald Trump on Monday called on Republicans to "take over" and "nationalize" voting as he continued to make false claims about the electoral process in the U.S. with the [----] midterm elections on the horizon. Trump made the comments in an interview with former FBI Director Dan Bongino who resigned from his post in December and returned to podcasting" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7602619928205610271) 2026-02-03T13:05Z 2.9M followers, 29.5K engagements "GOV. SHUTDOWN UPDATE TUESDAY: Speaker Mike Johnson's ability to carry out President Donald Trump's "play call" for funding the government will be put to the test Tuesday as the House holds a procedural vote on a bill to end the partial shutdown" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7602620391303171359) 2026-02-03T12:50Z 2.9M followers, 30.1K engagements "Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is defending a new executive order aimed at holding federal immigration agents criminally responsible for misconduct on the job. But he declined to say if he would push for police to investigate any high-profile incidents. #news #chicagonews #chicago #chicagopolice #immigration #ice #borderpatrol #executiveorder #brandonjohnson" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7602790381566184735) 2026-02-03T23:50Z [--] followers, 25.4K engagements "Lawmakers on Tuesday heard about several direct encounters with federals agents including the testimony of a Chicago woman shot by a Border Patrol agent.#news #chicagonews #chicago #immigration #borderpatrol" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7602791504830139679) 2026-02-03T23:54Z [--] followers, 21.3K engagements "A Chicago tax attorney has been indicted by a grand jury for the murder of his wife. Adam Beckerink [--] was in court Tuesday when prosecutors announced the indictment on a first-degree murder charge for the death of 36-year-old Caitlin Tracey. #news #chicagonews #chicago" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7602808138504375583) 2026-02-04T00:58Z 2.9M followers, [----] engagements "A court hearing Wednesday could get more photos and text messages by federal agents released from the shooting of Marimar Martinez back in October. Martinez was hit five times and injured" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7602984883710971167) 2026-02-04T12:24Z 2.9M followers, 13.8K engagements "In a preview of an interview set to air Thursday on NPR's Wild Card podcast Melinda French Gates addressed the latest documents released from the Justice Department's investigation into the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein which include new references to her ex-husband Microsoft founder Bill Gates. The philanthropist told host Rachel Martin that her reaction was one of "unbelievable sadness" according to the video clip posted by NPR. "I think we're having a reckoning as a society right No girl should ever be put in the situation that they were put in by Epstein and whatever was going on with" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7603000164520906015) 2026-02-04T13:23Z 2.9M followers, 12.7K engagements "The first husband of former first lady Jill Biden has been charged with killing his wife at their Delaware home in late December authorities announced in a news release Tuesday. William Stevenson [--] of Wilmington was married to Jill Biden from [----] to [----]. Caroline Harrison the Delaware Attorney General's spokesperson confirmed in a phone call that Stevenson is the former husband of Jill Biden. Stevenson remains in jail after failing to post $500000 bail after his arrest Monday on first-degree murder charges. He is charged with killing Linda Stevenson [--] on Dec. 28" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7603002079745002782) 2026-02-04T13:31Z 2.9M followers, 27.4K engagements "Border Czar Tom Homan said Wednesday the federal government will "draw down" [---] agents in the Minnesota area "effective immediately." He also said that CBP and ICE agents in Minnesota are aligned. "Any large operation I've ever been apart of is one chain of command and that's where we're moving forward" he said" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7603017465974574367) 2026-02-04T14:31Z 3M followers, 21K engagements "The U.S. Postal Service made some work-flow changes that could impact mail-in ballots in the upcoming primary elections. Previously mail was postmarked the day you dropped it in the mailbox now it will be postmarked the day it's processed at the post office which can sometimes be days later. The new USPS postmark policy comes just weeks ahead of the Illinois Primary Election on March 17" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7603070851155528991) 2026-02-04T17:58Z [--] followers, 10.8K engagements "The Washington Post is laying off one-third of its staff in the newsroom and other departments a brutal blow at one of journalism's most legendary brands" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7603076247639444766) 2026-02-04T18:19Z [--] followers, 53.7K engagements ""Today" show host Savannah Guthrie and her siblings made an emotional plea for the return of their mother who remains missing days after police believe she was abducted from her home in Arizona. #news #chicagonews #nancyguthrie #savannahguthrie #guthrie" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7603230757380738334) 2026-02-05T04:18Z [--] followers, 20.2K engagements "The Friday morning commute could be an icy one ABC7 Chicago meteorologists warn. #weather #snow" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7603520212645793055) 2026-02-05T23:01Z [--] followers, 15.8K engagements "The man charged in the murder of a popular boater was ordered held pending trial" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7603543033874795806) 2026-02-06T00:30Z [--] followers, 12.3K engagements "Joliet Bishop Ronald Hicks will officially take over as Archbishop of New York during an installation Mass Friday afternoon. #news #chicagonews #joliet #newyork" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7603546341402250527) 2026-02-06T00:43Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "Football fans are counting down to the Super Bowl. Players who grew up in the Chicago area are on the roster for both the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks. #news #chicagonews #superbowl" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7603547515635518751) 2026-02-06T00:47Z [--] followers, 12.1K engagements "A woman who was set on fire on a CTA Blue Line train back in November is now out of the hospital. Bethany MaGee released a statement saying she was released from Stroger Hospital on Thursday. #news #chicagonews #chicago #cta" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7603809195544169759) 2026-02-06T17:43Z [--] followers, 300.7K engagements "Faced with a demand for a bitcoin ransom and a Monday deadline by someone claiming to be her mother's kidnapper "Today" host Savannah Guthrie and her siblings over the weekend solemnly pledged to pay for the return of their mother Nancy. "We received your message and we understand" Savannah Guthrie said in a message posted to Instagram. "We beg you now to return our mother to us so we can celebrate with her. This is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us and we will pay."" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7604838931590352158) 2026-02-09T12:19Z [--] followers, 58.7K engagements "A freight train derailment impacted Metra services and caused multiple road closures in the south suburbs on Wednesday. Officials said the train derailment happened at about 4:45 a.m. on the CSX train lines" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7605662585802788126) 2026-02-11T17:35Z 3M followers, 106.5K engagements "Rep. Jamie Raskin: "You're running a massive Epstein cover up right out of the Department of Justice." Attorney General Pam Bondi called Rep. Jamie Raskin a former constitutional law professor and the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee a washed up loser lawyer as the clash between her and committee Democrats escalated over her approach to their questions" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7605683722293153055) 2026-02-11T19:15Z 3M followers, 233.2K engagements "A small plane made an emergency landing on a busy road in Gainesville Georgia after reported engine trouble. The single engine aircraft touched down in traffic and hit several vehicles according to officials" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7606081013537721631) 2026-02-12T22:55Z 3M followers, 121.4K engagements "A Wendella boat crew pulled a 65-year-old man from the Chicago River who had fallen off the Michigan Avenue bridge downtown Friday morning Chicago police and Wendella officials said. #chicagonews #news #chicago" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7606478654666804510) 2026-02-13T22:22Z 3M followers, 19K engagements "A Sarasota family shared a Nest video showing the moment their Tesla burst into flames which caused their home to burn down. Morgan Hodges said the Tesla Model X Plaid was parked in the garage during the storm on Friday. The car was not plugged in and the family elevated the car when six to eight inches of water started to flood the garage. #tesla #helene #florida" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7420780643098971423) 2024-10-01T12:35Z 3M followers, 1.7M engagements "The Senate passed legislation early Saturday to boost Social Security payments for millions of people pushing a longtime priority for former public employees through Congress in one of its last acts for the year. The bipartisan bill which next heads to President Joe Biden will eliminate longtime reductions to Social Security benefits for nearly [--] million people who receive pensions from work in federal state and local government or public service jobs like teachers firefighters and police officers. Advocates say the Social Security Fairness Act rights a decades-old disparity though it will" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7450903367070534942) 2024-12-21T16:30Z 3M followers, 7.2M engagements "New video shows people kicking front doors in the northwest suburbs. Doorbell video shows two people doing the so-called "door kick" social media challenge in Arlington Heights" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7577173107757108511) 2025-11-26T23:01Z 3M followers, 711.6K engagements "Hundreds of North Side high school students walked out of class on Monday to protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The unified walk came as many of the students said they and their families have lived in fear of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. #news #chicagonews #chicago #immigration #ice" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7602401022505422110) 2026-02-02T22:38Z 3M followers, 189.2K engagements "A woman was found shot to death at a North Side home on Friday morning Chicago police said. It is being investigated as a homicide and a $10000 reward is being offered for information. The victim was apparently found during a well-being check that was requested by a high-ranking city official. #news #chicagonews #chicago" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7603971584805686559) 2026-02-07T04:13Z 3M followers, 71.7K engagements "Best worst surprising commercials of Super Bowl LX Columbia College Chicago's Peg Murphy joined ABC7 on Monday" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7604842593553255711) 2026-02-09T12:33Z 3M followers, 11.7K engagements "After a year of searching Mayor Brandon Johnson has yet to find the right people to head Chicago Public Schools the Chicago Housing Authority and the Chicago Transit Authority something government watchdogs say is not good for the city. #chicagonews #news #chicago" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7606504136095354142) 2026-02-14T00:01Z 3M followers, [----] engagements "This Valentine's Day the ABC7 I-Team is alerting about a romance scam known as "sextortion." Criminals claiming to have inappropriate pictures of victims demand money. One victim shared her story with the I-Team. #chicagonews #news #valentinesday #warning #scam" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7606539235155283213) 2026-02-14T02:17Z 3M followers, 11.6K engagements "At least one person is dead after a school bus blew a tire on a South Carolina highway and overturned officials said. #news #chicagonews #worldnews #southcarolina" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7494493558267858206) 2025-04-18T03:43Z 3M followers, 3M engagements "La Grange police said they arrested a suspect who allegedly waved a gun and entered a Western Springs Mariano's on Wednesday. #news #chicagonews #westernspringsil #lagrange" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7535995346728619295) 2025-08-07T23:50Z 3M followers, 198K engagements "One Chicago-area driver turned to the ABC7 I-Team because the paint on his vehicle was falling off. The I-Team found similar problems on other vehicles from the same manufacturer. #news #chicagonews #hyundai" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7593227919116209438) 2026-01-09T05:22Z 3M followers, 252.2K engagements "A 13-year-old girl is dead after she was stabbed during a fight in northwest Houston on Wednesday night according to officials" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7603474128124923167) 2026-02-05T20:03Z 3M followers, 265.5K engagements "Sporting folk took advantage of the deep cold to sail an iceboat across New Yorks ice-covered Great South Bay on February [--]. Video filmed by Michael Busch of Great South Bay Images shows the wooden craft deftly navigating the ice-covered lagoon between the shores of Long Island and Fire Island. Iceboats are sail-powered small craft with metal runners attached to the hull. Busch told Storyful the vessel dubbed Miss Clella was built in [----] and piloted by people involved with the local South Bay Scooter Club. Ice boating used to be very popular but the bay hasnt had great freezes like this" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7603752828879883550) 2026-02-06T14:05Z 3M followers, 14.7K engagements "ESPN [----] Kapp joined ABC7 to break down what went down at Super Bowl LX.🏈" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7604835434824207647) 2026-02-09T12:06Z 3M followers, 14.1K engagements "Danny O'Shea's long road to the Olympics resulted in the top prize. The Gurnee native and pairs skater brought home the gold in the figure skating team event. Students and staff at O'Shea's alma mater St. Viator High School cheered on his routine. #news #chicagonews #gurnee #arlingtonheights #teamusa #winterolympics #olympics #figureskating" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7605020295564463391) 2026-02-10T00:03Z 3M followers, 47.1K engagements "Chicago is celebrating [---] years of Route [--] with a new official starting point. #chicagonews #news #chicago #navypier #route66" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7606188288491195679) 2026-02-13T03:35Z 3M followers, 47.1K engagements "Amazon's smart doorbell maker Ring has terminated a partnership with police surveillance tech company Flock Safety. The announcement follows a backlash that erupted after 30-second Ring ad that aired during the Super Bowl featuring a lost dog that is found through a network of cameras sparking fears of a dystopian surveillance society. But that feature called Search Party was not related to Flock. And Ring's announcement doesn't cite the ad as a reason for the "joint decision" for the cancellation. #news #superbowl #ring #ringdoorbell #surveillance #surveillancecamera #amazon #superbowlad" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7606400972662852895) 2026-02-13T17:20Z 3M followers, [----] engagements "A Momence bar owner reported the suspect in her death for a previous alleged theft Kankakee Co. prosecutors have now said" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7606424655590640927) 2026-02-13T18:52Z 3M followers, 41.6K engagements "A school parent says she was among those left scrambling after learning the Matrix Club in Naperville had abruptly closed. The venue hosted weddings concerts and other events. #chicagonews #news #naperville" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7606570549220773151) 2026-02-14T04:18Z 3M followers, 13.2K engagements "Three people are in custody after a man was kidnapped in Lombard Wednesday afternoon police said. Police said the responded to a reports of an altercation at 12:03 p.m. at a gas station near the intersection of North Avenue and Main Street" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7434513994041298206) 2024-11-07T12:31Z 3M followers, 767.3K engagements "ComEd customers can begin applying for grants to offset the cost of keeping cool this summer. ComEd's Customer Relief Fund will provide grants of up to $500 for residential customers with past due balances" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7524394654289104158) 2025-07-07T17:34Z 3M followers, 197.7K engagements "A 16-year-old Lombard boy has been accused of plotting to commit an act of terror at a suburban Islamic center officials said Friday. #lombard #glendaleheights" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7528542977292045598) 2025-07-18T21:52Z 3M followers, 873.4K engagements "Video shows of an apparent meteorite seen in the northern suburbs and in Wisconsin earlier this week. A police officer's dash camera captured a green-cosmic sighting in the sky in Neenah Wisconsin near Green Bay" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7567734537564736799) 2025-11-01T12:35Z 3M followers, 6.4M engagements "Chicago police released photos of two men wanted in connection with a double murder on the city's Southwest Side. Police say one of them robbed a jewelry store in Little Village on Saturday. #news #chicagonews #chicago" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7572532734367649055) 2025-11-14T10:54Z [--] followers, 183.1K engagements "HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS A custodian at a hospital in Fort Worth Texas was surprised by ER staff after they pooled together enough money for a plane ticket so he could see his family in Colombia for Christmas. Footage from Dr J Mack Slaughter shows staff at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest surprising Diego an environmental services worker with enough money for him to fly home to Colombia to see his wife and daughter. Slaughter told Storyful that Diego is a beloved staff member at the hospital and speaks frequently of his family to whom he sends money and visits just once a year" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7581952734643916062) 2025-12-09T20:09Z 3M followers, [----] engagements "A man who shot a Lombard police officer will spend decades in prison. Anthony Brown pleaded guilty earlier this year to the shooting and an armed robbery. #news #lombard #chicagonews" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7582053543465569566) 2025-12-10T02:40Z 3M followers, 72.1K engagements "Even as investigators took Jeffrey Epstein into custody in July [----] they were already turning their attention to others in the wealthy financier and convicted sex offender's vast orbit who might also be involved in his crimes according to a massive new trove of files released by the Justice Department early Tuesday morning. The fresh batch of files also add new details to the Epstein saga not previously known including operational details that went into planning for his [----] arrest; how some federal officials reacted to his death by suicide in jail; and images of the fake Austrian passport" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7587190533013982495) 2025-12-23T22:54Z 3M followers, 525.3K engagements "People rolled up their sleeves Sunday in suburban Bolingbrook for a blood drive. Blood donations are critical especially in the winter time when organizations see less donations. #news #chicagonews #bolingbrook #blooddrive" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7589062883690974494) 2025-12-29T00:00Z [--] followers, 82K engagements "The new year is bringing higher costs" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7590539087212203295) 2026-01-01T23:28Z 3M followers, 679.3K engagements "Brandon Martinez known as the "cheese grater guy" talks about his viral fame" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7595949787082525982) 2026-01-16T13:25Z 3M followers, 20.1K engagements "CNN's Richard Quest explains why so many of the world's most powerful leaders travel to attend the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos Switzerland" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7597522593108757790) 2026-01-20T19:55Z 3M followers, [----] engagements "A blast of extremely cold air is on its way to the Chicago area this week after some more snow moved through Wednesday night. Watch Eyewitness News at [--] p.m. on ABC7 for more. #news #chicagonews #chicago #weather" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7598023995690208542) 2026-01-22T03:33Z 3M followers, 340.1K engagements "The FAA says seven people were killed and a crew member survived with serious injuries when a private business jet crashed in a snowstorm at Maine's Bangor International Airport" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7599740893020671263) 2026-01-26T18:36Z [--] followers, 779.9K engagements "2 found dead after house explosion large fire in Oswego identified officials say" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7601291309508332830) 2026-01-30T22:52Z [--] followers, 164.1K engagements "At least [--] people were injured in a 59-vehicle pileup which occurred amid heavy fog and low visibility in California. #news #usnews #california" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7601753746988616991) 2026-02-01T04:47Z [--] followers, 60.8K engagements "https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-police-activity-today-cpd-confirms-active-swat-scene-south-shore-76th-exchange-avenue-sunday/18520875/ Police said the active scene was in the 2700-block of 76th Street in the South Shore neighborhood" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7601879295069408542) 2026-02-01T12:55Z [--] followers, 293.8K engagements "Before now Illinois had a work requirement waiver for what the law defines as able-bodied adults who applied for SNAP benefits. As of Sunday that's gone threatening the ability of hundreds of thousands across the state to put food on the table. #news #chicagonews #illinois #snap" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7602048950073363743) 2026-02-01T23:52Z [--] followers, 43.6K engagements "Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father Adrian Conejo Arias asylum seekers who were detained by federal agents in Minneapolis last week and sent to a Texas detention facility arrived in Minneapolis on Sunday after a judge ordered the government to release them. "I'm happy to finally be going home" Conejo Arias who is originally from Ecuador told ABC News' John Quiones in an exclusive interview as the pair flew from San Antonio back to Minneapolis. "Liam is very happy to be going back" Adrian Conejo Arias added. "He's going to see his mom and his brother again." Asked how he was feeling" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7602248002090143006) 2026-02-02T12:45Z [--] followers, 14.2K engagements "A homicide investigation is underway after a woman was found dead the rural Kankakee County bar she owned on Monday the sheriff's office and her friends told ABC7. Courtney Drysdale leaves behind a fianc and a school-age daughter her friend told ABC7. #news #chicagonews #kankakeecounty #momence" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7602492281362435359) 2026-02-03T04:33Z [--] followers, 112.3K engagements "Lindsey Vonn is "confident" she can compete at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics beginning this week with a torn ACL from a crash four days ago" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7602810490212961566) 2026-02-04T01:07Z [--] followers, 439K engagements "020426-wls-wall-vote-by-mail-430p-vidThe U.S. Postal Service has made some work-flow changes that could impact mail-in ballots in the upcoming [----] Illinois primary elections on March [--]. #news #chicagonews #elections" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7603175440731082014) 2026-02-05T00:43Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "As Toni Preckwinkle seeks her fifth term as Cook County board president Chicago Alderman Brenden Reilly may be her toughest opponent yet. #news #chicagonews #cookcounty #elections" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7603182834286726430) 2026-02-05T01:12Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "Viewers tell the ABC7 I-Team they were wrongly accused of child endangerment. Jason Knowles and the I-Team investigate how it happened with complaints nationwide and locally and the frustrating appeals process tonight on Eyewitness News at [--] p.m. #news #chicagonews #socialmedia" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7603198173657500958) 2026-02-05T02:12Z [--] followers, 10.3K engagements ""Today" show host Savannah Guthrie and her siblings made an emotional plea for the return of their mother who remains missing days after police believe she was abducted from her home in Arizona. For the latest updates watch Eyewitness News at [--] p.m. on ABC7. #news #chicagonews #nancyguthrie #savannahguthrie #guthrie" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7603217806280150303) 2026-02-05T03:28Z 3M followers, 18.4K engagements "The Chicago man accused of gunning down a young couple outside the Capital Jewish Museum in downtown Washington D.C. last May has now been charged with multiple terrorism offenses. #news #chicagonews #chicago" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7603242415318633759) 2026-02-05T05:04Z [--] followers, 25K engagements "A woman was found shot to death at a North Side home on Friday morning Chicago police said. It is being investigated as a homicide. #news #chicagonews #chicago" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7603917776272543007) 2026-02-07T00:44Z [--] followers, 22K engagements "A federal judge said a Chicago carpenter cleared of accusations that he put a $10000 bounty on the life of Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino must be released from custody or given a bond hearing. #news #chicagonews #chicago" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7603975845555784990) 2026-02-07T04:30Z [--] followers, 24.1K engagements "Cybersecurity researchers at Nord VPN and Saily warn loyalty accounts tied to major airlines and hotel chains are being hacked and sold on the dark web. #news #cybersecurity #hacking" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7604154039844048159) 2026-02-07T16:01Z [--] followers, 14.4K engagements "A stunning green aurora was seen rippling and pulsating from the International Space Station (ISS) footage posted on Wednesday February [--] shows. The NASAs Johnson Space Center said auroras occur when charged particles from the Sun collide with gases in Earths atmosphere guided by our planets magnetic field. Oxygen produces green and red light while nitrogen contributes blues and purples a luminous reminder that Earth is constantly interacting with space weather far beyond what we can see from the ground" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7604503778284375326) 2026-02-08T14:39Z 3M followers, [----] engagements "A North Side school is joining others across the state and nationwide protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Friday morning. The walkout at Lake View High School got underway as students in Aurora also walked out of school on Friday. The protests come after student demonstrators and police clashed in the west suburbs earlier this week. #news #chicagonews #chicago #ice #immigration #aurora #protest" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7606416912737717534) 2026-02-13T18:22Z 3M followers, 12K engagements "A Chicago man has been arrested and charged in the murder of a 17-year-old. Juan Salgado was shot and killed while driving with two other teens in the 3800-block of West 26th Street in Little Village on August [--]. Two other teens were in the car at the time and were not injured. Salgado was one week away from starting his senior year at Juarez Community Academy" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7423773830453284126) 2024-10-09T15:30Z 3M followers, 1.4M engagements "Four officers were injured and five people were arrested as there was a huge police response after a brawl at a South Side high school on Friday. Some students were seen put in handcuffs as parents said at least [---] students were fighting on three different floors and mace was used. ##news #chicagonews #chicago" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7448117031817284895) 2024-12-14T04:18Z 3M followers, 264K engagements "Tinder wants to help daters be confident that who they are swiping right on is really the person in the picture. The dating app is rolling out a facial verification feature. It's called "Face Check."" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7564390479421394206) 2025-10-23T12:18Z 3M followers, 1.3M engagements "A Bulgarian business owner who lived in Chicago for decades and was arrested during an immigration enforcement 'blitz' has died while in the custody of ICE at a private prison in Michigan the ABC7 I-Team has learned. #news #chicagonews #chicago #ice" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7585732794437963038) 2025-12-20T00:37Z 3M followers, 486.7K engagements "An elementary school teacher has resigned after a social media post saying "Go ICE" drew outrage from some parents in the west suburbs. #news #chicagonews #westchicago" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7603896842077719838) 2026-02-06T23:23Z 3M followers, 708K engagements "President Donald Trump told reporters he didn't see the entire video before it was shared on his social media platform late Thursday night that included a racist animation of former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama depicted with the bodies of apes and suggested he won't apologize for it. #news #chicagonews #worldnews #trump #obama" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7603973592593796383) 2026-02-07T04:21Z 3M followers, 148K engagements "The Justice department announced that starting Monday members of Congress will be able to review "unredacted versions" of more than [--] million pages of its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. #news #epstein #jeffreyepstein #epsteinfiles" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7604096919324937503) 2026-02-07T12:20Z 3M followers, 321.3K engagements "Nearly two dozen cars were broken into and damaged along one street on the city's South Side overnight. Chicago police are investigating. #news #chicagonews #chicago" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7604301465754111262) 2026-02-08T01:33Z 3M followers, 79.8K engagements "A second water main break was reported Saturday after another break that impacted dozens of homes in south suburban Dixmoor was repaired village officials said. #chicagonews #news #dixmoor" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7604352966010719519) 2026-02-08T04:53Z 3M followers, 219.8K engagements "Lindsey Vonn racing on a badly injured left knee crashed early in the Olympic downhill on Sunday and was taken off the course by a helicopter after the 41-year-old American received medical attention on the snow for long anguished minutes. Vonn lost control over the opening traverse after cutting the line too tight and was spun around in the air. She was heard screaming out after the crash as she was surrounded by medical personnel before she was strapped to a gurney and flown away by a helicopter possibly ending the skier's storied career. Her condition was not immediately known with the" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7604493187037678879) 2026-02-08T13:58Z 3M followers, 137.9K engagements "The ABC7 I-Team is investigating multiple claims against the same man who promised to finish remodeling jobs. The contractor Guy Landmeier is now facing felony charges including some related to passing bad checks and new ones connected to one consumer who reached out to ABC7. The I-Team talked to customers who said they paid for jobs and were left with unfinished work. #news #chicagonews #home #remodeling" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7605093469672983838) 2026-02-10T04:47Z 3M followers, 24.7K engagements "A former Palm Beach Florida police chief who investigated Jeffrey Epstein in the mid-2000s told the FBI he had received a call from Donald Trump at the time to say "thank goodness you're stopping him everyone has known he's been doing this" according to an FBI account of an interview with the ex-police chief in [----]. The Miami Herald was the first to report on the document. President Trump has repeatedly denied any knowledge of Epstein's crimes and has said that he cut off contact with his former friend more than [--] years ago" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7605217772431281439) 2026-02-10T13:05Z 3M followers, [----] engagements "A partial government shutdown is in effect for the Department of Homeland Security where funding ran out at the end of day Friday as lawmakers remain at an impasse over immigration enforcement. Earlier Friday Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought directed DHS to begin implementing its shutdown plans. #news #congress #governmentshutdown #dhs #immigration #politics" [TikTok Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@abc7chicago/video/7606698369104284959) 2026-02-14T12:34Z 3M followers, 17.5K engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"An Oak Lawn restaurant owner says he thought his manager was joking when she said someone had broken into the business"
TikTok Link 2026-02-07T01:40Z 3M followers, 275.9K engagements
"After the recent shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by immigration agents in Minneapolis Marimar Martinez who survived being shot five times by a federal agent said she was compelled to ask the court to release all evidence in her dismissed criminal case to clear her name after Department of Homeland Security officials continued to label the Chicago woman with no criminal background a "domestic terrorist." Watch Eyewitness News at [--] p.m. for the latest updates. #news #chicagonews #chicago"
TikTok Link 2026-02-07T03:43Z 3M followers, 11K engagements
"The goal was to raise more than $2 million and the Chicago Auto Show First Look for Charity gala accomplished just that Friday night. #news #chicagonews #chicago #chicagoautoshow"
TikTok Link 2026-02-07T04:31Z 3M followers, 23.3K engagements
"Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker suggested on Monday that the state is making progress in talks with the Chicago Bears. It comes as the pressure is mounting for the state to act soon to counter attempts to lure the team to northwest Indiana. #news #chicagonews #chicagobears #bears #nfl #football #arlingtonheights #chicago #gary #indiana"
TikTok Link 2026-02-09T22:50Z 3M followers, 37.6K engagements
"Freshman Michigan State University basketball player Jeremy Fears Jr. was shot in his hometown in Chicago's southern suburbs overnight MSU Athletics said in a statement. #news #msu #basketball #jeremyfears Freshman MSU basketball player Jeremy Fears Jr. shot in hometown Freshman MSU basketball player Jeremy Fears Jr. shot in hometown"
TikTok Link 2023-12-23T23:47Z 2.9M followers, 163.8K engagements
"US military's X-37B space plane blasts off on secretive mission #news #fyp #spacex #rocket"
TikTok Link 2023-12-29T19:50Z 2.9M followers, 13.3K engagements
"Doctors have called Opill the first over-the-counter birth control pill a "game changer." #birthcontrol #opill #womenshealth"
TikTok Link 2024-03-05T02:48Z 2.9M followers, [----] engagements
""I think he's great. A life saver": A high school coach saved his student-athlete's life by performing CPR for [--] minutes after she collapsed in sudden cardiac arrest. #news #cpr #hero"
TikTok Link 2024-05-21T00:51Z 2.9M followers, 308.2K engagements
"Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders the former Apollo [--] astronaut who took the iconic "Earthrise" photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in [----] died in a plane crash Friday in Washington state. #news #earthrise #williamanders #apollo8 #space"
TikTok Link 2024-06-08T16:15Z 2.9M followers, 80.9K engagements
"Tributes are pouring in Sunday for a 21-year-old gymnast from Plainfield who was fatally shot Friday night inside her college apartment in Wisconsin"
TikTok Link 2024-09-01T23:12Z 2.9M followers, 583.4K engagements
"A shooting left one person injured in a parking lot at North Illinois University police said. The shooting happened on Sunday. The exact time of the shooting was not released by police. It took place on the west side of campus police said. Anyone with information is asked to contact NIU Department of Police and Public Safety at 815-753-1212 or DeKalb police at 815-748-8400"
TikTok Link 2024-10-20T10:40Z 2.9M followers, 3.4M engagements
"An ATM was stolen from a North Side business early Monday morning in a smash-and-grab burglary. #chicago #smashandgrab #burglary"
TikTok Link 2024-11-12T02:27Z 2.9M followers, 78.4K engagements
"Sean Combs' new application for bail should be denied because the music mogul "poses serious risks of danger and obstruction" to his criminal sex trafficking case federal prosecutors argued in an overnight court filing. #news #diddy #seancombs"
TikTok Link 2024-11-17T16:40Z 2.9M followers, 381K engagements
"A cryptocurrency entrepreneur who bought a piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana duct-taped to a wall for $6.2 million last week ate the fruit in Hong Kong. #news #banana #art"
TikTok Link 2024-12-01T17:48Z [--] followers, 1.5M engagements
"A 5-year-old girl is dead after she was attacked by her family dogs at her home in California on Sunday authorities say. Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies were called to a home in a gated community in the [----] block of Palomino Drive in Covina around noon on Sunday. They discovered that a 5-year-old girl had been attacked by the two family dogs in the backyard of the home. Los Angeles County Fire paramedics brought the girl to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead at 1:23 p.m. Investigators say the dogs responsible for the attack are a 10-year-old Rottweiler and a 6-year-old"
TikTok Link 2024-12-09T12:16Z 2.9M followers, 24M engagements
"One person is dead after a shooting Thursday evening inside "The Levee" bar on the city's Northwest Side Chicago police said.#news #chicagonews #chicago"
TikTok Link 2024-12-13T04:40Z 2.9M followers, 1.2M engagements
"Luigi Mangione on Monday pleaded not guilty to state murder and terror charges in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as his attorney protested his treatment in court saying her client is being used as "political fodder" by police and the mayor of New York City. The 26-year-old Mangione entered the Manhattan courtroom in shackles and under heavy guard"
TikTok Link 2024-12-23T18:56Z 2.9M followers, 1.1M engagements
"Villa Park police issued a warning of dangerous takeovers in the western suburb. It comes after a high-speed crash and serious accident Friday night along North Avenue. On Saturday police say crowds and vehicles took over private business lots near North and Villa avenues. At one point a crowd formed to block an arrest. There was also an unsubstantiated claim of a few people with guns. Offenders face a $900 fee and risk getting their tires spiked"
TikTok Link 2024-12-23T19:02Z 2.9M followers, 2.9M engagements
"Gypsy Rose Blanchard the Missouri woman sent to prison for the murder of her mother is now a mom according to a photo shared on Instagram by her partner Ken Urker. The photo posted Wednesday shows Blanchard in a hospital bed holding a newborn baby alongside Urker who is standing next to the bed with his hand on the baby. "Welcoming [----] with the greatest gift of all " Urker captioned the photo. A representative for Blanchard confirmed to ABC News Wednesday that Blanchard and the baby are "doing well." Blanchard first announced her pregnancy in July sharing a photo collage on Instagram of her"
TikTok Link 2025-01-02T14:12Z [--] followers, 6.7M engagements
"The incoming first lady Melania Trump made her way to Capitol Hill wearing a navy blue outfit with a matching hat for the inauguration of her husband President-elect Trump. American designer Adam Lippes designed the ensemble. #inaugurationday #inauguration #news #abcnews"
TikTok Link 2025-01-20T16:53Z [--] followers, 768.3K engagements
"Chicago police are searching for four suspects after two female victims were robbed in the Chicago Pedway underground tunnel system in the Loop. #chicagonews #chicago #news"
TikTok Link 2025-01-26T04:49Z 2.9M followers, 823.1K engagements
"President Donald Trump is expected to pardon ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich [--] years after commuting his sentence multiple reports say. #trump #blago #pardon #illinois"
TikTok Link 2025-02-10T19:54Z 2.9M followers, 304.5K engagements
"Charlie Jacobsma slapped the surface of a pool enclosure at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium and scanned the water for movement. Moments later the head of a beluga calf emerged mouth agape in what looked like a smile. Jacobsma's face lit up in response as he cooed to the calf like a human parent to a toddler. Shedd's animal care team described its newest resident born to 35-year-old resident beluga Naya in July [----] as just that. "Like a toddler that's learning to talk and making noises he's the same way" said Jacobsma director of animal behavior and training at Shedd. "He's just constantly growing"
TikTok Link 2025-02-16T12:57Z 2.9M followers, 1.6M engagements
"Firefighters are working to put out a fire at an apartment building Saturday in the southwest suburbs. Residents stood outside feeling helpless as they watched their homes and all of their belongings get destroyed by the massive fire. #news #chicagonews #justiceillinois"
TikTok Link 2025-02-22T23:12Z [--] followers, 152.3K engagements
"Fabric and crafts retailer Joann Inc. is going out of business and shuttering all its stores. #joann #craft"
TikTok Link 2025-02-25T01:36Z 2.9M followers, 6.1M engagements
"A Sunshine Coast snake catcher had to show he could tackled four-legged uninvited guests too when a goanna was found strutting around a kitchen much to the surprise of the homeowner. Footage posted from Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7 shows the bold reptile roaming around the house before the catcher does his thing and safely returns it to the wild. Imagine the surprise when the homeowner walked in and found their new REPTILIAN roommate the caption read. This cheeky lizard thought it found the perfect Airbnb right inside a homeowners kitchen"
TikTok Link 2025-02-27T05:55Z 2.9M followers, 82.5K engagements
"The search for a possible dog killer is underway in Amador County California. "Oso" was found with a small gunshot wound in the neck which the sheriff's office said looked consistent to a pellet or small caliber bullet. "I do feel very uneasy that someone would feel comfortable shooting towards my house where my kids play outside every day" Palumbo said. Sheriff deputies and the family have talked to neighbors but have no leads yet"
TikTok Link 2025-03-04T21:00Z 2.9M followers, 1.2M engagements
"One person was killed and another was injured in a shooting Wednesday outside of a church on the city's West Side Chicago police said. #news #chicagonews #chicago"
TikTok Link 2025-04-10T03:13Z 2.9M followers, 111.5K engagements
"The online predators part of the network known as "764" demand victims send them photos and videos of it all so the shocking content can be shared with fellow [---] followers or used to extort victims for more. Some of the predators even host "watch parties" for others to watch them torment victims live online according to authorities"
TikTok Link 2025-05-06T13:53Z [--] followers, 808K engagements
"A popular brand of children's cough syrup is under a voluntary recall over concerns it's contaminated with bacteria. The recall involves five lots of "Little Remedies" honey cough syrup according to the FDA. #news #littleremedies #coughsyrup #recall"
TikTok Link 2025-06-19T19:43Z 2.9M followers, 2.2M engagements
"A 15-year-old boy was struck by lightning in New York City's Central Park during a round of severe thunderstorms on Thursday. Yassin Khalifa a high school sophomore was enjoying a picnic in Central Park with friends when the storm suddenly blew in. #news #nyc #newyork #centralpark #lightning #lightningstrike #weather"
TikTok Link 2025-06-20T12:32Z 2.9M followers, 735.1K engagements
"A mother in Atlanta Georgia was able to speak her first words to her son after months of being paralyzed due to a rare autoimmune disorder footage published to TikTok shows. Mallory Wilkerson a 26-year-old mother of one said she was hospitalized with Guillain-Barre syndrome a rare condition that causes the immune system to attack the bodys nerves. I woke up one morning to a tingling sensation in my hands and feet. Within a week I was completely paralysed and on a ventilator Wilkerson told Storyful. After initially receiving care in Louisville Kentucky Wilkerson was transferred to Atlanta to"
TikTok Link 2025-06-26T14:27Z 2.9M followers, 279.1K engagements
"The Pentagon released jaw-dropping footage on June [--] of a test showing the same kind of bomb used to target Iranian nuclear facilities. Footage shown during a press conference led by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of The Joint Staff Air Force General Dan Caine show the test of a 30000-pound GBU-57 massive ordnance penetrator bomb. The Department of Defense said the bunker buster bomb was used by US forces on June [--] as they targeted Irans Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant. During the press conference Hegseth unleashed on the press corps singling out journalists in the room after"
TikTok Link 2025-06-27T16:15Z 2.9M followers, 2.5M engagements
"The first television ad has hit the airway in the hotly contested race for a U.S. Senate seat. Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi spent half-a-million dollars on his new statewide television and digital ad campaign. #news #politics #senate #congress #illinois"
TikTok Link 2025-07-15T23:13Z 2.9M followers, 16.4K engagements
"For the first time many people in the United States who want to protect themselves against the flu this respiratory virus season can order a vaccine to give themselves at home. #flu"
TikTok Link 2025-08-15T19:07Z 2.9M followers, 52.5K engagements
"The Chicago Cubs have clinched the top NL wild card and home-field advantage in the first round. The last time the Cubs hosted a postseason game at Wrigley Field with fans in attendance was [----]. #news #chicagonews #chicago #cubs #chicagocubs"
TikTok Link 2025-09-27T23:00Z 2.9M followers, 219.7K engagements
"More than three months after he was shot a Chicago teenager will move from a hospital to a rehab facility this week. Jeremy Herred Jr. now [--] years old was left paralyzed and a ventilator. A second teen died in the shooting at Douglass Park which happened over the summer. Jeremy's family is offering nonstop support as the criminal justice system makes slow progress in the prosecution of the former lifeguard accused in the shooting. #news #chicago #chicagonews #douglasspark"
TikTok Link 2025-10-06T22:51Z 2.9M followers, 154.2K engagements
"A suspect has been charged with fatally shooting a man at a north suburban birthday party on Friday night the Lake County Sheriff's Office said. #news #chicagonews #lakecounty"
TikTok Link 2025-10-12T22:42Z 2.9M followers, 97.7K engagements
"A man was shot and killed Sunday evening outside of a house in Northwest Indiana during a "domestic disturbance" the sheriff said. #news #chicagonews #lakecounty #indiana"
TikTok Link 2025-10-13T03:17Z 2.9M followers, 680.4K engagements
"The suspect in the fatal shooting of San Bernardino County Sheriff's Deputy Andrew Nuez was identified Tuesday while flags flew at half-staff statewide in honor of the fallen law enforcement officer. The alleged gunman and high-speed chase suspect was identified as Angelo Jose Saldivar [--] a resident of San Bernardino California. #news #california #sanbernardinocounty #policechase"
TikTok Link 2025-10-28T23:18Z 2.9M followers, 112.6K engagements
"Three people are facing charges after a Texas man says he was kidnapped at gunpoint and forced to have sex by a woman who identified herself as "Cookie." nail glue no silver beads giving myself a bridge piercing nail glue no silver beads giving myself a bridge piercing"
TikTok Link 2025-10-30T21:06Z 3M followers, 668.5K engagements
"Kimberly-Clark is buying Tylenol maker Kenvue in a cash and stock deal worth about $48.7 billion creating a massive consumer health goods company. #tylenol"
TikTok Link 2025-11-03T20:01Z [--] followers, 300.7K engagements
"U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth has fired a staffer accused of misrepresenting himself as an attorney and falsifying an official form to visit and secure the release of a Staunton restaurant owner detained by immigration agents. Duckworth sent the letter a copy of which was obtained by Capitol News Illinois to Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Todd Lyons on Monday notifying him that staffer Edward York has been terminated. #news #tammyduckworth"
TikTok Link 2025-11-19T02:14Z 2.9M followers, 36.1K engagements
"1PM UPDATE: A Winter Storm Warning is in effect for the Chicago area until [--] a.m. Sunday as several inches of snow are expected to drop in the next [--] hours"
TikTok Link 2025-11-29T19:32Z 2.9M followers, 273.1K engagements
"Fear is now turning to anger after a former Little Village Chamber of Commerce staff member appeared to have been caught on video thanking federal agents who were arresting neighborhood residents in immigration action. #news #chicagonews #chicago"
TikTok Link 2025-12-03T22:30Z 2.9M followers, 148.9K engagements
"Paramount has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. #netflix #paramount"
TikTok Link 2025-12-08T19:28Z 2.9M followers, 76.3K engagements
"Residents who were told to stay in their homes said they saw officers in tactical gear with long guns a command vehicle and drones in the air. #news #chicagonews #streamwood"
TikTok Link 2025-12-11T04:15Z [--] followers, 190.5K engagements
"The release contains what appears to be first known report to federal law enforcement that Epstein was involved in child sexual exploitation: a September [----] complaint filed with the FBI's Miami office accusing Epstein of participating in "child pornography" more than eight years before the first law enforcement investigation into Epstein was launched. #news #chicagonews #nationalnews #jeffreyepstein #epstein #epsteinfiles"
TikTok Link 2025-12-20T05:14Z 2.9M followers, 441.2K engagements
"A 62-year-old victim was beaten and severely injured on a CTA bus by three teenage suspects last week on the city's West Side police said. #news #chicagonews #chicago"
TikTok Link 2025-12-22T04:18Z [--] followers, 928K engagements
"Chicago police said they are speaking with a person or people of interest in a violent attack on a CTA bus last Tuesday. The crime happened around 5:40 p.m. Dec. [--] in the 700-block of South Cicero Avenue as the bus approached I-290 from Roosevelt Road police said"
TikTok Link 2025-12-22T12:32Z 2.9M followers, 76.2K engagements
"Cybercriminals are using Grok AI on X to lure users into clicking bad links in video threads cybersecurity experts say"
TikTok Link 2025-12-23T00:15Z 2.9M followers, 490.4K engagements
"As holiday commuters continue to snarl up traffic around the downtown Loop the ABC7 I-Team has learned a Chicago River bridge that was closed for repairs most of this year is not reopening anytime soon. This is the second time that the reopening of the State Street bridge downtown has been delayed. #news #chicago #chicagonews #chicagoriver #traffic #construction"
TikTok Link 2025-12-23T01:18Z 2.9M followers, 138.3K engagements
"Three teens have been accused of sexually assaulting a female classmate at a suburban high school graduation party the DuPage County State's Attorney's Office said Tuesday. On June [--] Roselle police were notified of a criminal sexual assault that had allegedly occurred at a Saint Viator High School graduation party in Roselle the night before officials said"
TikTok Link 2025-12-24T23:32Z 2.9M followers, 2.2M engagements
"tow truck driver rear-ended another vehicle and shot at the car hitting its windshield early Friday morning downtown Chicago police said. A 34-year-old woman was driving a gray Chevy SUV south in the 800-block of North La Salle Drive in River North about 3:50 a.m. near the tow truck Chicago police said"
TikTok Link 2025-12-26T17:31Z 2.9M followers, 207.7K engagements
"Two juveniles were arrested after a large disturbance inside the Louis Joliet Mall Saturday Joliet police said"
TikTok Link 2025-12-30T03:52Z 2.9M followers, 677.6K engagements
"Online sportsbooks will be able to legally operate in Chicago after the city provided some 11th-hour licenses just in time for the new year. #news #chicagonews #chicago #sportsbet"
TikTok Link 2026-01-01T01:08Z 2.9M followers, 392.9K engagements
"Nicor Gas on Friday filed a $221 million rate hike request with the Illinois Commerce Commission less than two months after state regulators approved a $168 million rate hike for the utility. #news #chicagonews #illinois #nicor"
TikTok Link 2026-01-10T02:29Z 2.9M followers, 50.6K engagements
"A look at what Article [--] of the NATO treat says and what it promises to NATO members. #news #greenland #nato #trump #donaldtrump #politics"
TikTok Link 2026-01-10T12:39Z 2.9M followers, 10.2K engagements
"A man was seriously hurt in a CTA stabbing on the South Side early Sunday Chicago police said. The crime happened at about 2:51 a.m. near the CTA Red Line 69th Station police said. A 34-year-old man got into an argument with an unknown suspect police said. The suspect then stabbed the victim in the chest. The victim was taken to U of C Hospital in serious condition according to police"
TikTok Link 2026-01-11T12:54Z 2.9M followers, 78.6K engagements
"The body of a Chicago Public Schools teacher who went missing over one week ago was pulled from Lake Michigan on Monday morning the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office said. The medical examiner said Robert Healy Elementary special education teacher Linda Brown's body was found in the water in the 3100-block of South Lake Shore Drive on the city's South Side just before noon. #news #chicagonews #cps #teacher"
TikTok Link 2026-01-12T22:26Z 2.9M followers, 5.8M engagements
"Two teenage boys have been charged in a violent sexual assault that happened in a west suburban Walgreens bathroom on Sunday afternoon officials said. The younger teen allegedly recorded the attack. #news #chicagonews #naperville"
TikTok Link 2026-01-14T00:25Z 2.9M followers, 1.5M engagements
"The US Supreme Court allowed Rep. Mike Bost to challenge how Illinois counts mail-in ballots in a decision Wednesday"
TikTok Link 2026-01-14T22:51Z 2.9M followers, 259.7K engagements
"Former DePaul Blue Demon basketball players were among college basketball players accused in a point-shaving scheme to fix basketball games according to an indictment unsealed Thursday"
TikTok Link 2026-01-15T23:20Z 3M followers, 54.4K engagements
"Using acetaminophen during pregnancy does not increase a child's risk of autism ADHD or intellectual disability a major new review published Friday finds. #news #acetaminophen #tylenol #autism #adhd #health #medicine"
TikTok Link 2026-01-17T12:36Z 2.9M followers, 207.8K engagements
"A third round of retaliatory strikes by the U.S. in Syria resulted in the death of an Al-Qaeda-affiliated leader who officials say had a direct tie to an ambush that killed two U.S. soldiers and one American civilian interpreter in the country. #news #chicagonews #chicago #worldnews"
TikTok Link 2026-01-17T23:21Z 2.9M followers, 1.1M engagements
"The leaders of all [--] European Union nations will meet for an "extraordinary meeting" later this week European Council President Antonio Costa said on Sunday in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's escalating pressure campaign to acquire Greenland. Costa said he had called the meeting due to the "significance of recent developments." European leaders are mobilizing after Trump on Saturday announced a 10% tariff to be imposed on all goods sent to the U.S. from eight NATO nations -- Denmark Norway Sweden France Germany the U.K. the Netherlands and Finland -- that recently sent small"
TikTok Link 2026-01-19T14:55Z 2.9M followers, 5.8M engagements
"There was a large police presence at an officer-involved shooting scene Wednesday afternoon in Aurora. #news #chicagonews #aurora"
TikTok Link 2026-01-21T22:11Z 2.9M followers, 244.9K engagements
"A knife-wielding suspect was injured in a police-involved shooting Wednesday afternoon in Aurora officials said. #news #chicagonews #aurora"
TikTok Link 2026-01-21T22:47Z 2.9M followers, 100.2K engagements
"The trial for a man accused of putting a bounty on the life of Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino won't be a long one. Testimony began and ended Wednesday. #news #chicagonews #chicago"
TikTok Link 2026-01-21T23:00Z 2.9M followers, 18.8K engagements
"Here are tips to safeguard homes against the dangerous cold in the Chicago area this week. #news #chicagonews #chicago #weather #cold"
TikTok Link 2026-01-22T22:18Z 3M followers, 259.5K engagements
"The state of Illinois has launched an investigation into what prompted the immigration raid of a South Side apartment complex last summer alleging housing discrimination could be involved. #news #chicagonews #chicago"
TikTok Link 2026-01-22T23:00Z 2.9M followers, 17.8K engagements
"Police in Suffolk County New York wondered if a buck was looking for bucks after a deer smashed through a bank window and trashed the place on Sunday January [--]. This bodycam footage from the Suffolk County Police Department shows the distressed and bloodied animal crashing into bank-teller barriers and leaping on desks. Police wrote on Facebook: Officers responding to a burglary alarm at a Ridge bank Sunday were met with an unexpected intruder. Officers were able to calm and lasso the buck before guiding him out to freedom via the same window he came in video shows. The department thanked"
TikTok Link 2026-01-23T14:50Z 2.9M followers, 15.9K engagements
"The one Operation Midway Blitz case that made it to trial for an alleged murder-for-hire plot resulted in a not guilty verdict. It's a shocking turn of events to experts who tell the ABC7 I-Team the office typically has a more than 90% conviction rate. #news #chicagonews #chicago"
TikTok Link 2026-01-24T02:24Z 2.9M followers, 33.7K engagements
"Chicago police shot and seriously injured a suspect accused of shooting a woman and firing shots at officers on the city's South Side on Friday night officials said. Police said officers responded to a domestic disturbance call regarding a male armed with a gun and a knife in the Grand Crossing neighborhood's 7900-block of South Ingleside Avenue just after 7:45 p.m. #news #chicagonews #chicago"
TikTok Link 2026-01-24T11:48Z 2.9M followers, 32.6K engagements
"Chicago police are searching for burglars wanted in multiple business break-ins and ATM thefts across the city. #news #chicagonews #chicago"
TikTok Link 2026-01-25T01:44Z [--] followers, 211.4K engagements
"In the last months of World War II Lola Kantorowicz tried her best to hide her pregnancy. She succeeded up until nearly the end because most of the prisoners at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp had bellies that were distended and bloated from extended starvation. As she went into labor in March [----] the Russians were advancing through Germany and Bergen-Belsen was in absolute chaos. Her daughter Ilana was born on March [--] [--] days before the camp was liberated by the British. Now [--] Ilana Kantorowicz Shalem is one of the youngest Holocaust survivors. She survived only because she was born"
TikTok Link 2026-01-27T15:25Z 2.9M followers, 14.1K engagements
"A dog in New Hampshire momentarily disappeared as it leapt into more than a foot of snow after a winter storm passed over large parts of the US. This footage taken by X user @WeatherReMarks shows his English springer spaniel jumping into the pure powder in Durham New Hampshire on Monday January [--]. Durham got [----] inches of snow by Monday according to the source and a local news report"
TikTok Link 2026-01-27T19:12Z 2.9M followers, [----] engagements
"Amazon said it's closing all of its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh locations as the online behemoth focuses on its grocery delivery Whole Foods Market and a new "supersized" store concept. #amazon"
TikTok Link 2026-01-28T01:40Z 2.9M followers, 2.9M engagements
"Oswego police asked residents for surveillance footage of a masked suspect after a woman was found killed. The woman was found dead in the 400-block of Valentine Way on Tuesday at about 1:10 p.m. according to police. Local police were able to find the suspect after a witness reported seeing him running southbound across Wolfs Crossing Road"
TikTok Link 2026-01-28T17:23Z 2.9M followers, 231.6K engagements
"A newly emerged video appears to show Alex Pretti in a confrontation with federal agents [--] days before he was shot and killed in Minneapolis. There are growing calls in Chicago to strip funding from DHS. Watch Eyewitness News tonight at [--] p.m. on ABC7 for more. #news #chicagonews #worldnews #ice #dhs #borderpatol #minneapolis #minnesota #alexpretti #chicago #illinois"
TikTok Link 2026-01-29T03:25Z 2.9M followers, 55.6K engagements
"Fires just miles apart in West Englewood have left one woman dead and another seriously injured Chicago police said. The first fire was at about 10:15 p.m. Tuesday in the 7000-block of South Bell Avenue. Police said firefighters responded to the scene extinguished the fire and found a 75-year-old woman with burns on her body. The woman was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center where she was later pronounced dead police said. No other injuries were reported"
TikTok Link 2026-01-29T14:31Z 2.9M followers, [----] engagements
"ABC7 Chicago will present the [----] Democratic U.S. Senate Primary Forum on Thursday Jan. [--] at [--] p.m. #news #chicagonews #chicago #senate #elections #illinois"
TikTok Link 2026-01-29T22:49Z 2.9M followers, [----] engagements
"A water main break closed two schools in south suburban Dixmoor Thursday but it has since been repaired the village said. ABC7 was told this was the fourth water main break there this month"
TikTok Link 2026-01-30T01:26Z 2.9M followers, 27.1K engagements
"A suspected gas leak and home explosion in Oswego caused the massive fire that rattled neighboring homes. Oswego fire officials say the people who lived in that home are still unaccounted for. #news #chicagonews #oswego"
TikTok Link 2026-01-30T04:12Z 2.9M followers, 62.8K engagements
"The man charged with murdering a pregnant woman in Downers Grove was critically injured from apparent self-inflicted wounds in custody after he appeared in court Thursday morning officials said. #news #chicagonews #downersgrove"
TikTok Link 2026-01-30T04:42Z 2.9M followers, 632.9K engagements
"U.S. Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi and Robin Kelly and Illinois Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton participated in a Democratic Senate Primary Forum Thursday night presented by ABC7. #news #chicagonews #chicago #illinois #senate #elections"
TikTok Link 2026-01-30T05:01Z [--] followers, 16.5K engagements
"A vehicle spun multiple times after its driver lost control on an ice-covered road in Austin Texas on Monday January [--]. Footage taken by Tucker Wise shows the car twirling down a hill in Austin making several 360-degree spins before stopping near the bottom of the hill. Wise told Storyful: The roadway was completely iced over and the vehicle was unable to stop or steer slowly sliding downhill before coming to a stop. No one was injured. The National Weather Service warned that roads would be dangerous because of ice caused by packed down sleet and freezing rain accumulation in the Austin"
TikTok Link 2026-01-30T14:55Z [--] followers, 10K engagements
"Harvey Mayor Christopher J. Clark has died the south suburban city said in a statement on Friday morning. #news #chicagonews #harvey"
TikTok Link 2026-01-30T17:20Z 2.9M followers, 38.1K engagements
"New video shows a Chicago surgeon charged in an Ohio double murder behind bars. #news #chicagonews #chicago #ohio"
TikTok Link 2026-01-30T17:39Z [--] followers, 158.6K engagements
"Israel said Friday that it will reopen the pedestrian border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt over the weekend marking an important step forward for U.S. President Donald Trump's Gaza ceasefire plan"
TikTok Link 2026-01-30T20:29Z 2.9M followers, 13.7K engagements
"Aggressive tactics used during Operation Midway Blitz sparked fears frustrations and pushback from community members raising serious questions about the legality and legitimacy of the federal enforcement actions. #news #chicagonews #chicago #illinois #ice #worldnews #dhs #borderpatol"
TikTok Link 2026-01-30T23:17Z 2.9M followers, 17.4K engagements
"Demonstrators in the Chicago area and across the country are calling for a national shutdown that includes "no shopping no school and no work" on Friday in response to the nationwide immigration crackdown. #news #chicago #chicagonews #ice #dhs #borderpatol"
TikTok Link 2026-01-30T23:50Z 2.9M followers, 26.1K engagements
"The Senate voted Friday to fund most of the government through the end of September after President Donald Trump made a deal with Democrats to carve out Homeland Security funding and allow Congress to debate new restrictions on federal immigration raids across the country. #news #chicagonews #worldnews #senate"
TikTok Link 2026-01-31T00:16Z 2.9M followers, 488.2K engagements
"Federal prosecutors said nine people have been charged after a series of raids Thursday on the Near West Side South Side and in the western suburbs"
TikTok Link 2026-01-31T01:36Z 2.9M followers, 213.6K engagements
"The friend of a woman allegedly killed by her ex-husband during a home invasion in Oswego calls her a kind genuine person. She leaves behind six children and her current husband. #news #chicagonews #oswego"
TikTok Link 2026-01-31T04:51Z 2.9M followers, 40.7K engagements
"Bursts of lake-effect snow are continuing to fall in the Chicago area on Saturday. ABC7's Christian Piekos is in the ABC7 Storm Tracker in northwest Indiana where the snow is impacting road conditions. #news #chicagonews #chicago #weather #snow"
TikTok Link 2026-01-31T12:10Z 2.9M followers, 46.8K engagements
"Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order on Saturday directing Chicago police to investigate any alleged illegal activity by federal immigration agents. During the signing Johnson said the city must prepare for agents to potentially return to Chicago in the spring. #news #chicagonews #chicago #immigration #brandonjohnson"
TikTok Link 2026-01-31T17:47Z [--] followers, 103.9K engagements
"Illinois Governor JB Pritzker contributed $5 million dollars to a super PAC supporting his Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton according to FEC records. She's one of multiple Democrats running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Dick Durbin. #news #chicagonews #illinois"
TikTok Link 2026-02-01T04:51Z [--] followers, 98.4K engagements
"Police shut down the Edens Expressway on Sunday morning amid a multi-vehicle crash in Skokie. Illinois State Police confirmed all northbound lanes of I-94 were closed due to a multi-vehicle crash near Dempster Street"
TikTok Link 2026-02-01T12:12Z [--] followers, 300.6K engagements
"A water main break in Dixmoor is impacting more than half of the south suburban community on Sunday officials said. #news #chicagonews #dixmoor #water #watermainbreak"
TikTok Link 2026-02-01T23:23Z 2.9M followers, 14.1K engagements
"Park Ridge Illinois native Alex Pretti a 37-year-old ICU nurse at a VA hospital was shot and killed by Border Patrol agents last weekend in Minneapolis. Demonstrators say they are honoring a hero and standing on the right side of history #news #chicagonews #alexpretti #minnesota #minneapolis"
TikTok Link 2026-02-02T04:23Z [--] followers, 59.6K engagements
"Another water main break in Dixmoor has some residents continuing to struggle without water Monday morning. The water main break has impacted more than half of the community"
TikTok Link 2026-02-02T12:21Z 2.9M followers, 12.6K engagements
"An 84-year-old woman who was reported missing in Arizona has been identified by officials as the mother of "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie. The Pima County Sheriff's Department announced during a news conference on Sunday that Nancy Guthrie was last seen in the Catalina Foothills area on Saturday night at approximately 9:45 p.m"
TikTok Link 2026-02-02T12:28Z 2.9M followers, 22.8K engagements
"There is evidence of a crime at the home of the missing 84-year-old mother of "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie according to authorities in Arizona. Nancy Guthrie was last seen in the Catalina Foothills area on Saturday night according to the Pima County Sheriff's Department. Her family reported her missing on Sunday around noon local time authorities said"
TikTok Link 2026-02-02T19:19Z [--] followers, 21.8K engagements
"Authorities investigating the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie the mother of Today anchor Savannah Guthrie are treating her home as a crime scene and are asking for the publics help solving the case"
TikTok Link 2026-02-02T19:47Z 2.9M followers, 17.5K engagements
"Hurricane-force wind gusts from a bomb cyclone collapsed several homes on North Carolinas Outer Banks into the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday"
TikTok Link 2026-02-02T20:10Z 2.9M followers, 13.1K engagements
"The Justice Department said Monday that it had taken down several thousand documents and "media" that may have inadvertently included victim-identifying information"
TikTok Link 2026-02-02T22:45Z [--] followers, 26.3K engagements
"Homeland Security officers now being issued a body-worn camera Noem says"
TikTok Link 2026-02-02T22:47Z 2.9M followers, 28.3K engagements
"Chicago police are searching for a 71-year-old man who disappeared from the city's South Side last month. Keith Williams may show signs of dementia and has a scar on his face. #news #chicagonews #chicago #missingperson #missingman"
TikTok Link 2026-02-02T23:14Z 2.9M followers, [----] engagements
"A former CPD chief of detectives calls the mayor's order on federal investigations political theater"
TikTok Link 2026-02-02T23:38Z 2.9M followers, 32.5K engagements
"A new piece of history is coming to life in the sport of golf. Northwestern University credits Horace Morgan McDougal with being the first Black intercollegiate golfer. #news #chicagonews #chicago #golf #history #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth #northwestern"
TikTok Link 2026-02-03T00:26Z 2.9M followers, 11.3K engagements
"The race to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Dick Durbin who's retiring later this year is heating up. T"
TikTok Link 2026-02-03T00:30Z 2.9M followers, [----] engagements
"There's a special Harvey City Council meeting Monday night following the unexpected death of the mayor"
TikTok Link 2026-02-03T00:55Z 2.9M followers, 22.7K engagements
"No nominee received the required four votes needed to take over the rest of the late Harvey Mayor Christopher Clark's term at a special Harvey City Council meeting on Monday night. The task to replace him comes at a critical time for Harvey residents and the south suburban city which is currently in financial distress. #news #chicagonews #harvey"
TikTok Link 2026-02-03T04:36Z 2.9M followers, 24.8K engagements
"- Journalist Don Lemon appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" Monday night for his first interview following his arrest last week. Federal agents arrested Lemon while he was in Los Angeles covering the Grammy Awards. The Department of Justice said his arrest was sparked by his coverage of an anti-ICE protest during a church service in Minnesota. "I'm not going to let them steal my joy but this is very serious. I mean these are federal criminal charges" Lemon said at the start of the interview"
TikTok Link 2026-02-03T12:28Z 2.9M followers, 16.9K engagements
"President Donald Trump on Monday called on Republicans to "take over" and "nationalize" voting as he continued to make false claims about the electoral process in the U.S. with the [----] midterm elections on the horizon. Trump made the comments in an interview with former FBI Director Dan Bongino who resigned from his post in December and returned to podcasting"
TikTok Link 2026-02-03T13:05Z 2.9M followers, 29.5K engagements
"GOV. SHUTDOWN UPDATE TUESDAY: Speaker Mike Johnson's ability to carry out President Donald Trump's "play call" for funding the government will be put to the test Tuesday as the House holds a procedural vote on a bill to end the partial shutdown"
TikTok Link 2026-02-03T12:50Z 2.9M followers, 30.1K engagements
"Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is defending a new executive order aimed at holding federal immigration agents criminally responsible for misconduct on the job. But he declined to say if he would push for police to investigate any high-profile incidents. #news #chicagonews #chicago #chicagopolice #immigration #ice #borderpatrol #executiveorder #brandonjohnson"
TikTok Link 2026-02-03T23:50Z [--] followers, 25.4K engagements
"Lawmakers on Tuesday heard about several direct encounters with federals agents including the testimony of a Chicago woman shot by a Border Patrol agent.#news #chicagonews #chicago #immigration #borderpatrol"
TikTok Link 2026-02-03T23:54Z [--] followers, 21.3K engagements
"A Chicago tax attorney has been indicted by a grand jury for the murder of his wife. Adam Beckerink [--] was in court Tuesday when prosecutors announced the indictment on a first-degree murder charge for the death of 36-year-old Caitlin Tracey. #news #chicagonews #chicago"
TikTok Link 2026-02-04T00:58Z 2.9M followers, [----] engagements
"A court hearing Wednesday could get more photos and text messages by federal agents released from the shooting of Marimar Martinez back in October. Martinez was hit five times and injured"
TikTok Link 2026-02-04T12:24Z 2.9M followers, 13.8K engagements
"In a preview of an interview set to air Thursday on NPR's Wild Card podcast Melinda French Gates addressed the latest documents released from the Justice Department's investigation into the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein which include new references to her ex-husband Microsoft founder Bill Gates. The philanthropist told host Rachel Martin that her reaction was one of "unbelievable sadness" according to the video clip posted by NPR. "I think we're having a reckoning as a society right No girl should ever be put in the situation that they were put in by Epstein and whatever was going on with"
TikTok Link 2026-02-04T13:23Z 2.9M followers, 12.7K engagements
"The first husband of former first lady Jill Biden has been charged with killing his wife at their Delaware home in late December authorities announced in a news release Tuesday. William Stevenson [--] of Wilmington was married to Jill Biden from [----] to [----]. Caroline Harrison the Delaware Attorney General's spokesperson confirmed in a phone call that Stevenson is the former husband of Jill Biden. Stevenson remains in jail after failing to post $500000 bail after his arrest Monday on first-degree murder charges. He is charged with killing Linda Stevenson [--] on Dec. 28"
TikTok Link 2026-02-04T13:31Z 2.9M followers, 27.4K engagements
"Border Czar Tom Homan said Wednesday the federal government will "draw down" [---] agents in the Minnesota area "effective immediately." He also said that CBP and ICE agents in Minnesota are aligned. "Any large operation I've ever been apart of is one chain of command and that's where we're moving forward" he said"
TikTok Link 2026-02-04T14:31Z 3M followers, 21K engagements
"The U.S. Postal Service made some work-flow changes that could impact mail-in ballots in the upcoming primary elections. Previously mail was postmarked the day you dropped it in the mailbox now it will be postmarked the day it's processed at the post office which can sometimes be days later. The new USPS postmark policy comes just weeks ahead of the Illinois Primary Election on March 17"
TikTok Link 2026-02-04T17:58Z [--] followers, 10.8K engagements
"The Washington Post is laying off one-third of its staff in the newsroom and other departments a brutal blow at one of journalism's most legendary brands"
TikTok Link 2026-02-04T18:19Z [--] followers, 53.7K engagements
""Today" show host Savannah Guthrie and her siblings made an emotional plea for the return of their mother who remains missing days after police believe she was abducted from her home in Arizona. #news #chicagonews #nancyguthrie #savannahguthrie #guthrie"
TikTok Link 2026-02-05T04:18Z [--] followers, 20.2K engagements
"The Friday morning commute could be an icy one ABC7 Chicago meteorologists warn. #weather #snow"
TikTok Link 2026-02-05T23:01Z [--] followers, 15.8K engagements
"The man charged in the murder of a popular boater was ordered held pending trial"
TikTok Link 2026-02-06T00:30Z [--] followers, 12.3K engagements
"Joliet Bishop Ronald Hicks will officially take over as Archbishop of New York during an installation Mass Friday afternoon. #news #chicagonews #joliet #newyork"
TikTok Link 2026-02-06T00:43Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"Football fans are counting down to the Super Bowl. Players who grew up in the Chicago area are on the roster for both the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks. #news #chicagonews #superbowl"
TikTok Link 2026-02-06T00:47Z [--] followers, 12.1K engagements
"A woman who was set on fire on a CTA Blue Line train back in November is now out of the hospital. Bethany MaGee released a statement saying she was released from Stroger Hospital on Thursday. #news #chicagonews #chicago #cta"
TikTok Link 2026-02-06T17:43Z [--] followers, 300.7K engagements
"Faced with a demand for a bitcoin ransom and a Monday deadline by someone claiming to be her mother's kidnapper "Today" host Savannah Guthrie and her siblings over the weekend solemnly pledged to pay for the return of their mother Nancy. "We received your message and we understand" Savannah Guthrie said in a message posted to Instagram. "We beg you now to return our mother to us so we can celebrate with her. This is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us and we will pay.""
TikTok Link 2026-02-09T12:19Z [--] followers, 58.7K engagements
"A freight train derailment impacted Metra services and caused multiple road closures in the south suburbs on Wednesday. Officials said the train derailment happened at about 4:45 a.m. on the CSX train lines"
TikTok Link 2026-02-11T17:35Z 3M followers, 106.5K engagements
"Rep. Jamie Raskin: "You're running a massive Epstein cover up right out of the Department of Justice." Attorney General Pam Bondi called Rep. Jamie Raskin a former constitutional law professor and the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee a washed up loser lawyer as the clash between her and committee Democrats escalated over her approach to their questions"
TikTok Link 2026-02-11T19:15Z 3M followers, 233.2K engagements
"A small plane made an emergency landing on a busy road in Gainesville Georgia after reported engine trouble. The single engine aircraft touched down in traffic and hit several vehicles according to officials"
TikTok Link 2026-02-12T22:55Z 3M followers, 121.4K engagements
"A Wendella boat crew pulled a 65-year-old man from the Chicago River who had fallen off the Michigan Avenue bridge downtown Friday morning Chicago police and Wendella officials said. #chicagonews #news #chicago"
TikTok Link 2026-02-13T22:22Z 3M followers, 19K engagements
"A Sarasota family shared a Nest video showing the moment their Tesla burst into flames which caused their home to burn down. Morgan Hodges said the Tesla Model X Plaid was parked in the garage during the storm on Friday. The car was not plugged in and the family elevated the car when six to eight inches of water started to flood the garage. #tesla #helene #florida"
TikTok Link 2024-10-01T12:35Z 3M followers, 1.7M engagements
"The Senate passed legislation early Saturday to boost Social Security payments for millions of people pushing a longtime priority for former public employees through Congress in one of its last acts for the year. The bipartisan bill which next heads to President Joe Biden will eliminate longtime reductions to Social Security benefits for nearly [--] million people who receive pensions from work in federal state and local government or public service jobs like teachers firefighters and police officers. Advocates say the Social Security Fairness Act rights a decades-old disparity though it will"
TikTok Link 2024-12-21T16:30Z 3M followers, 7.2M engagements
"New video shows people kicking front doors in the northwest suburbs. Doorbell video shows two people doing the so-called "door kick" social media challenge in Arlington Heights"
TikTok Link 2025-11-26T23:01Z 3M followers, 711.6K engagements
"Hundreds of North Side high school students walked out of class on Monday to protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The unified walk came as many of the students said they and their families have lived in fear of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. #news #chicagonews #chicago #immigration #ice"
TikTok Link 2026-02-02T22:38Z 3M followers, 189.2K engagements
"A woman was found shot to death at a North Side home on Friday morning Chicago police said. It is being investigated as a homicide and a $10000 reward is being offered for information. The victim was apparently found during a well-being check that was requested by a high-ranking city official. #news #chicagonews #chicago"
TikTok Link 2026-02-07T04:13Z 3M followers, 71.7K engagements
"Best worst surprising commercials of Super Bowl LX Columbia College Chicago's Peg Murphy joined ABC7 on Monday"
TikTok Link 2026-02-09T12:33Z 3M followers, 11.7K engagements
"After a year of searching Mayor Brandon Johnson has yet to find the right people to head Chicago Public Schools the Chicago Housing Authority and the Chicago Transit Authority something government watchdogs say is not good for the city. #chicagonews #news #chicago"
TikTok Link 2026-02-14T00:01Z 3M followers, [----] engagements
"This Valentine's Day the ABC7 I-Team is alerting about a romance scam known as "sextortion." Criminals claiming to have inappropriate pictures of victims demand money. One victim shared her story with the I-Team. #chicagonews #news #valentinesday #warning #scam"
TikTok Link 2026-02-14T02:17Z 3M followers, 11.6K engagements
"At least one person is dead after a school bus blew a tire on a South Carolina highway and overturned officials said. #news #chicagonews #worldnews #southcarolina"
TikTok Link 2025-04-18T03:43Z 3M followers, 3M engagements
"La Grange police said they arrested a suspect who allegedly waved a gun and entered a Western Springs Mariano's on Wednesday. #news #chicagonews #westernspringsil #lagrange"
TikTok Link 2025-08-07T23:50Z 3M followers, 198K engagements
"One Chicago-area driver turned to the ABC7 I-Team because the paint on his vehicle was falling off. The I-Team found similar problems on other vehicles from the same manufacturer. #news #chicagonews #hyundai"
TikTok Link 2026-01-09T05:22Z 3M followers, 252.2K engagements
"A 13-year-old girl is dead after she was stabbed during a fight in northwest Houston on Wednesday night according to officials"
TikTok Link 2026-02-05T20:03Z 3M followers, 265.5K engagements
"Sporting folk took advantage of the deep cold to sail an iceboat across New Yorks ice-covered Great South Bay on February [--]. Video filmed by Michael Busch of Great South Bay Images shows the wooden craft deftly navigating the ice-covered lagoon between the shores of Long Island and Fire Island. Iceboats are sail-powered small craft with metal runners attached to the hull. Busch told Storyful the vessel dubbed Miss Clella was built in [----] and piloted by people involved with the local South Bay Scooter Club. Ice boating used to be very popular but the bay hasnt had great freezes like this"
TikTok Link 2026-02-06T14:05Z 3M followers, 14.7K engagements
"ESPN [----] Kapp joined ABC7 to break down what went down at Super Bowl LX.🏈"
TikTok Link 2026-02-09T12:06Z 3M followers, 14.1K engagements
"Danny O'Shea's long road to the Olympics resulted in the top prize. The Gurnee native and pairs skater brought home the gold in the figure skating team event. Students and staff at O'Shea's alma mater St. Viator High School cheered on his routine. #news #chicagonews #gurnee #arlingtonheights #teamusa #winterolympics #olympics #figureskating"
TikTok Link 2026-02-10T00:03Z 3M followers, 47.1K engagements
"Chicago is celebrating [---] years of Route [--] with a new official starting point. #chicagonews #news #chicago #navypier #route66"
TikTok Link 2026-02-13T03:35Z 3M followers, 47.1K engagements
"Amazon's smart doorbell maker Ring has terminated a partnership with police surveillance tech company Flock Safety. The announcement follows a backlash that erupted after 30-second Ring ad that aired during the Super Bowl featuring a lost dog that is found through a network of cameras sparking fears of a dystopian surveillance society. But that feature called Search Party was not related to Flock. And Ring's announcement doesn't cite the ad as a reason for the "joint decision" for the cancellation. #news #superbowl #ring #ringdoorbell #surveillance #surveillancecamera #amazon #superbowlad"
TikTok Link 2026-02-13T17:20Z 3M followers, [----] engagements
"A Momence bar owner reported the suspect in her death for a previous alleged theft Kankakee Co. prosecutors have now said"
TikTok Link 2026-02-13T18:52Z 3M followers, 41.6K engagements
"A school parent says she was among those left scrambling after learning the Matrix Club in Naperville had abruptly closed. The venue hosted weddings concerts and other events. #chicagonews #news #naperville"
TikTok Link 2026-02-14T04:18Z 3M followers, 13.2K engagements
"Three people are in custody after a man was kidnapped in Lombard Wednesday afternoon police said. Police said the responded to a reports of an altercation at 12:03 p.m. at a gas station near the intersection of North Avenue and Main Street"
TikTok Link 2024-11-07T12:31Z 3M followers, 767.3K engagements
"ComEd customers can begin applying for grants to offset the cost of keeping cool this summer. ComEd's Customer Relief Fund will provide grants of up to $500 for residential customers with past due balances"
TikTok Link 2025-07-07T17:34Z 3M followers, 197.7K engagements
"A 16-year-old Lombard boy has been accused of plotting to commit an act of terror at a suburban Islamic center officials said Friday. #lombard #glendaleheights"
TikTok Link 2025-07-18T21:52Z 3M followers, 873.4K engagements
"Video shows of an apparent meteorite seen in the northern suburbs and in Wisconsin earlier this week. A police officer's dash camera captured a green-cosmic sighting in the sky in Neenah Wisconsin near Green Bay"
TikTok Link 2025-11-01T12:35Z 3M followers, 6.4M engagements
"Chicago police released photos of two men wanted in connection with a double murder on the city's Southwest Side. Police say one of them robbed a jewelry store in Little Village on Saturday. #news #chicagonews #chicago"
TikTok Link 2025-11-14T10:54Z [--] followers, 183.1K engagements
"HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS A custodian at a hospital in Fort Worth Texas was surprised by ER staff after they pooled together enough money for a plane ticket so he could see his family in Colombia for Christmas. Footage from Dr J Mack Slaughter shows staff at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest surprising Diego an environmental services worker with enough money for him to fly home to Colombia to see his wife and daughter. Slaughter told Storyful that Diego is a beloved staff member at the hospital and speaks frequently of his family to whom he sends money and visits just once a year"
TikTok Link 2025-12-09T20:09Z 3M followers, [----] engagements
"A man who shot a Lombard police officer will spend decades in prison. Anthony Brown pleaded guilty earlier this year to the shooting and an armed robbery. #news #lombard #chicagonews"
TikTok Link 2025-12-10T02:40Z 3M followers, 72.1K engagements
"Even as investigators took Jeffrey Epstein into custody in July [----] they were already turning their attention to others in the wealthy financier and convicted sex offender's vast orbit who might also be involved in his crimes according to a massive new trove of files released by the Justice Department early Tuesday morning. The fresh batch of files also add new details to the Epstein saga not previously known including operational details that went into planning for his [----] arrest; how some federal officials reacted to his death by suicide in jail; and images of the fake Austrian passport"
TikTok Link 2025-12-23T22:54Z 3M followers, 525.3K engagements
"People rolled up their sleeves Sunday in suburban Bolingbrook for a blood drive. Blood donations are critical especially in the winter time when organizations see less donations. #news #chicagonews #bolingbrook #blooddrive"
TikTok Link 2025-12-29T00:00Z [--] followers, 82K engagements
"The new year is bringing higher costs"
TikTok Link 2026-01-01T23:28Z 3M followers, 679.3K engagements
"Brandon Martinez known as the "cheese grater guy" talks about his viral fame"
TikTok Link 2026-01-16T13:25Z 3M followers, 20.1K engagements
"CNN's Richard Quest explains why so many of the world's most powerful leaders travel to attend the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos Switzerland"
TikTok Link 2026-01-20T19:55Z 3M followers, [----] engagements
"A blast of extremely cold air is on its way to the Chicago area this week after some more snow moved through Wednesday night. Watch Eyewitness News at [--] p.m. on ABC7 for more. #news #chicagonews #chicago #weather"
TikTok Link 2026-01-22T03:33Z 3M followers, 340.1K engagements
"The FAA says seven people were killed and a crew member survived with serious injuries when a private business jet crashed in a snowstorm at Maine's Bangor International Airport"
TikTok Link 2026-01-26T18:36Z [--] followers, 779.9K engagements
"2 found dead after house explosion large fire in Oswego identified officials say"
TikTok Link 2026-01-30T22:52Z [--] followers, 164.1K engagements
"At least [--] people were injured in a 59-vehicle pileup which occurred amid heavy fog and low visibility in California. #news #usnews #california"
TikTok Link 2026-02-01T04:47Z [--] followers, 60.8K engagements
"https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-police-activity-today-cpd-confirms-active-swat-scene-south-shore-76th-exchange-avenue-sunday/18520875/ Police said the active scene was in the 2700-block of 76th Street in the South Shore neighborhood"
TikTok Link 2026-02-01T12:55Z [--] followers, 293.8K engagements
"Before now Illinois had a work requirement waiver for what the law defines as able-bodied adults who applied for SNAP benefits. As of Sunday that's gone threatening the ability of hundreds of thousands across the state to put food on the table. #news #chicagonews #illinois #snap"
TikTok Link 2026-02-01T23:52Z [--] followers, 43.6K engagements
"Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father Adrian Conejo Arias asylum seekers who were detained by federal agents in Minneapolis last week and sent to a Texas detention facility arrived in Minneapolis on Sunday after a judge ordered the government to release them. "I'm happy to finally be going home" Conejo Arias who is originally from Ecuador told ABC News' John Quiones in an exclusive interview as the pair flew from San Antonio back to Minneapolis. "Liam is very happy to be going back" Adrian Conejo Arias added. "He's going to see his mom and his brother again." Asked how he was feeling"
TikTok Link 2026-02-02T12:45Z [--] followers, 14.2K engagements
"A homicide investigation is underway after a woman was found dead the rural Kankakee County bar she owned on Monday the sheriff's office and her friends told ABC7. Courtney Drysdale leaves behind a fianc and a school-age daughter her friend told ABC7. #news #chicagonews #kankakeecounty #momence"
TikTok Link 2026-02-03T04:33Z [--] followers, 112.3K engagements
"Lindsey Vonn is "confident" she can compete at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics beginning this week with a torn ACL from a crash four days ago"
TikTok Link 2026-02-04T01:07Z [--] followers, 439K engagements
"020426-wls-wall-vote-by-mail-430p-vidThe U.S. Postal Service has made some work-flow changes that could impact mail-in ballots in the upcoming [----] Illinois primary elections on March [--]. #news #chicagonews #elections"
TikTok Link 2026-02-05T00:43Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"As Toni Preckwinkle seeks her fifth term as Cook County board president Chicago Alderman Brenden Reilly may be her toughest opponent yet. #news #chicagonews #cookcounty #elections"
TikTok Link 2026-02-05T01:12Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"Viewers tell the ABC7 I-Team they were wrongly accused of child endangerment. Jason Knowles and the I-Team investigate how it happened with complaints nationwide and locally and the frustrating appeals process tonight on Eyewitness News at [--] p.m. #news #chicagonews #socialmedia"
TikTok Link 2026-02-05T02:12Z [--] followers, 10.3K engagements
""Today" show host Savannah Guthrie and her siblings made an emotional plea for the return of their mother who remains missing days after police believe she was abducted from her home in Arizona. For the latest updates watch Eyewitness News at [--] p.m. on ABC7. #news #chicagonews #nancyguthrie #savannahguthrie #guthrie"
TikTok Link 2026-02-05T03:28Z 3M followers, 18.4K engagements
"The Chicago man accused of gunning down a young couple outside the Capital Jewish Museum in downtown Washington D.C. last May has now been charged with multiple terrorism offenses. #news #chicagonews #chicago"
TikTok Link 2026-02-05T05:04Z [--] followers, 25K engagements
"A woman was found shot to death at a North Side home on Friday morning Chicago police said. It is being investigated as a homicide. #news #chicagonews #chicago"
TikTok Link 2026-02-07T00:44Z [--] followers, 22K engagements
"A federal judge said a Chicago carpenter cleared of accusations that he put a $10000 bounty on the life of Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino must be released from custody or given a bond hearing. #news #chicagonews #chicago"
TikTok Link 2026-02-07T04:30Z [--] followers, 24.1K engagements
"Cybersecurity researchers at Nord VPN and Saily warn loyalty accounts tied to major airlines and hotel chains are being hacked and sold on the dark web. #news #cybersecurity #hacking"
TikTok Link 2026-02-07T16:01Z [--] followers, 14.4K engagements
"A stunning green aurora was seen rippling and pulsating from the International Space Station (ISS) footage posted on Wednesday February [--] shows. The NASAs Johnson Space Center said auroras occur when charged particles from the Sun collide with gases in Earths atmosphere guided by our planets magnetic field. Oxygen produces green and red light while nitrogen contributes blues and purples a luminous reminder that Earth is constantly interacting with space weather far beyond what we can see from the ground"
TikTok Link 2026-02-08T14:39Z 3M followers, [----] engagements
"A North Side school is joining others across the state and nationwide protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Friday morning. The walkout at Lake View High School got underway as students in Aurora also walked out of school on Friday. The protests come after student demonstrators and police clashed in the west suburbs earlier this week. #news #chicagonews #chicago #ice #immigration #aurora #protest"
TikTok Link 2026-02-13T18:22Z 3M followers, 12K engagements
"A Chicago man has been arrested and charged in the murder of a 17-year-old. Juan Salgado was shot and killed while driving with two other teens in the 3800-block of West 26th Street in Little Village on August [--]. Two other teens were in the car at the time and were not injured. Salgado was one week away from starting his senior year at Juarez Community Academy"
TikTok Link 2024-10-09T15:30Z 3M followers, 1.4M engagements
"Four officers were injured and five people were arrested as there was a huge police response after a brawl at a South Side high school on Friday. Some students were seen put in handcuffs as parents said at least [---] students were fighting on three different floors and mace was used. ##news #chicagonews #chicago"
TikTok Link 2024-12-14T04:18Z 3M followers, 264K engagements
"Tinder wants to help daters be confident that who they are swiping right on is really the person in the picture. The dating app is rolling out a facial verification feature. It's called "Face Check.""
TikTok Link 2025-10-23T12:18Z 3M followers, 1.3M engagements
"A Bulgarian business owner who lived in Chicago for decades and was arrested during an immigration enforcement 'blitz' has died while in the custody of ICE at a private prison in Michigan the ABC7 I-Team has learned. #news #chicagonews #chicago #ice"
TikTok Link 2025-12-20T00:37Z 3M followers, 486.7K engagements
"An elementary school teacher has resigned after a social media post saying "Go ICE" drew outrage from some parents in the west suburbs. #news #chicagonews #westchicago"
TikTok Link 2026-02-06T23:23Z 3M followers, 708K engagements
"President Donald Trump told reporters he didn't see the entire video before it was shared on his social media platform late Thursday night that included a racist animation of former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama depicted with the bodies of apes and suggested he won't apologize for it. #news #chicagonews #worldnews #trump #obama"
TikTok Link 2026-02-07T04:21Z 3M followers, 148K engagements
"The Justice department announced that starting Monday members of Congress will be able to review "unredacted versions" of more than [--] million pages of its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. #news #epstein #jeffreyepstein #epsteinfiles"
TikTok Link 2026-02-07T12:20Z 3M followers, 321.3K engagements
"Nearly two dozen cars were broken into and damaged along one street on the city's South Side overnight. Chicago police are investigating. #news #chicagonews #chicago"
TikTok Link 2026-02-08T01:33Z 3M followers, 79.8K engagements
"A second water main break was reported Saturday after another break that impacted dozens of homes in south suburban Dixmoor was repaired village officials said. #chicagonews #news #dixmoor"
TikTok Link 2026-02-08T04:53Z 3M followers, 219.8K engagements
"Lindsey Vonn racing on a badly injured left knee crashed early in the Olympic downhill on Sunday and was taken off the course by a helicopter after the 41-year-old American received medical attention on the snow for long anguished minutes. Vonn lost control over the opening traverse after cutting the line too tight and was spun around in the air. She was heard screaming out after the crash as she was surrounded by medical personnel before she was strapped to a gurney and flown away by a helicopter possibly ending the skier's storied career. Her condition was not immediately known with the"
TikTok Link 2026-02-08T13:58Z 3M followers, 137.9K engagements
"The ABC7 I-Team is investigating multiple claims against the same man who promised to finish remodeling jobs. The contractor Guy Landmeier is now facing felony charges including some related to passing bad checks and new ones connected to one consumer who reached out to ABC7. The I-Team talked to customers who said they paid for jobs and were left with unfinished work. #news #chicagonews #home #remodeling"
TikTok Link 2026-02-10T04:47Z 3M followers, 24.7K engagements
"A former Palm Beach Florida police chief who investigated Jeffrey Epstein in the mid-2000s told the FBI he had received a call from Donald Trump at the time to say "thank goodness you're stopping him everyone has known he's been doing this" according to an FBI account of an interview with the ex-police chief in [----]. The Miami Herald was the first to report on the document. President Trump has repeatedly denied any knowledge of Epstein's crimes and has said that he cut off contact with his former friend more than [--] years ago"
TikTok Link 2026-02-10T13:05Z 3M followers, [----] engagements
"A partial government shutdown is in effect for the Department of Homeland Security where funding ran out at the end of day Friday as lawmakers remain at an impasse over immigration enforcement. Earlier Friday Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought directed DHS to begin implementing its shutdown plans. #news #congress #governmentshutdown #dhs #immigration #politics"
TikTok Link 2026-02-14T12:34Z 3M followers, 17.5K engagements
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