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Zissou Tasseff-Elenkoff, a printer and designer, is voting for the first time at the age of 37. He explains why this election is different, and how punk has inspired his design.

Michael Bloom hopes his project makes a positive statement about the country at a time when it’s divided: ‘How do we show that when we combine things that are American, we can get a greater product in the end?’

Zissou Tasseff-Elenkoff is a Chicago printer and designer who created a new “I Voted” sticker inspired by punk and Halloween. The 37-year-old first-time voter explained why he’s motivated to finally go to the polls this year. To find his sticker – and all of our artist-created “I Voted” stickers – search “LXtion2020” on Giphy.

Mariah Guzman, a graduate student at the University of Illinois, and Chancellor Robert Jones gave NBC Chicago an inside look at their high-tech efforts to keep students on the Urbana-Champaign campus safe from COVID-19, including twice a week saliva tests and contact tracing via Bluetooth. One week after opening its doors, the school had an outbreak anyway.

Undocumented immigrants and DACA recipients are not eligible to vote in U.S. elections. But in Chicago, young immigrants like Esmeralda Montesinos and Giselle Rodriguez are joining citizens in efforts to ensure Latino immigrants who are now citizens show up at the polls.

Protesters gathered in cities across the country to protest the verdict in the grand jury case against Louisville police officers, who shot and killed Breonna Taylor in March.

Attorney General William Barr was in Chicago on Wednesday to lay out the scope of “Operation Legend”, which was deployed by the Department of Justice in an effort to help curb an uptick in violent crime across the country.

Many businesses in downtown Chicago are still boarded up after being ransacked and destroyed. NBCLX spoke with MTV host Dometi Pongo about the lingering effects on the city.

A special prosecutor in Chicago said Monday that Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and her office abused their discretion in the case against actor Jussie Smollett but did nothing criminal.

A 9-year-old boy was one of 105 homicide victims in Chicago in July, joining a grim roster of children who have been felled by the city’s gun violence.

A Chicago woman who last month became the nation’s first COVID-19 patient to undergo a double lung transplant says she woke up days later, unaware about the surgery and unable to “recognize my body.”

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that federal law enforcement is ready to be deployed in cities with an increase in crime.

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he is sending federal law enforcement agents to Chicago and Albuquerque to combat violent crime. The agents will come from several agencies, including the FBI, DEA and DHS, to help execute “Operation Legend.” Agents have already been sent to Kansas City.

President Donald Trump is using the Department of Homeland Security in unprecedented ways as he tries to bolster his law and order credentials by making a heavy-handed show of force in cities around the nation in the lead-up to the November elections

Chicago Police said at least 14 people were hospitalized. “All we saw was just bodies laying everywhere,” said one resident.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday offered a blunt response to White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who called her a “derelict mayor” during a press briefing.

Forty years ago this week, Chicagoland stepped out of the carefree hustle and bustle of the 1978 Christmas season and into a nightmare. The city at large had failed to notice the disappearance of dozens of young men and boys. But the last of those victims, a teenager named Robert Piest, changed everything. Piest’s disappearance led Des Plaines police to...

Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago performed a double lung transplant on a woman in her 20s with COVID-19. The disease had damaged her lungs so much that doctors said the transplant was her only option.

A Chicago-area woman was fatally mauled by a French bulldog she had rescued, police said Wednesday.