East Chicago

Several Mexican residents in East Chicago, Indiana are connecting with their culture through folkloric ballet. Telemundo Chicago’s Priscilla Ferreyra reports.

A death investigation is underway in East Chicago after a 21-year-old woman was found dead early Saturday morning with significant head trauma on a local street, police said.

East Chicago police officers placed two people of interest into custody following a deadly shooting on Sunday afternoon, authorities said. At around 3:30 p.m. officers were called to the 1000 block of West 145th Street, police said in a Facebook post. Officers arrived at the scene and found an unresponsive man who was bleeding from the head. The victim’s name…

Ollie Holiness returned to East Chicago Thursday going door to door passing out flyers in her son’s unsolved murder.

At least three people sustained injuries in a shootout at a car show on Sunday afternoon in East Chicago, Indiana, according to police. The shooting unfolded at around 3:45 p.m. during the “Stunna Jam Custom Car Show and Sound Competition” at Jeorse Park Beach along Lake Michigan. In a news release, police explained they were initially informed that a fight…

A nursing home in East Chicago, Ind. is facing legal action after the family of a 96-year-old resident says she was sexually assaulted by a fellow resident who is a convicted sex offender, NBC Chicago’s Regina Waldroup reports.

NBC 5’s Natalie Martinez shares the story of a 14-year-old who drowned in Lake Michigan over the weekend.

Instead of making plans for the new school year, a northwest Indiana family is in mourning after a 14-year-old drowned in Lake Michigan over the holiday weekend.