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A grieving family want answers on how a 17-year-old boy contracted a rare brain-eating amoeba and died.

Next week is your next chance to grab your tickets to the Obama Presidential Center museum.

The case's outcome could mean life in prison or confinement in a mental health facility. Both sides may adjust their strategies if a retrial occurs.

Saturday marks 47 years since two 17-year-old girls were murdered in Morton Grove.

The 25th annual Pilsen Mexican Independence Day Parade was set to step off on Saturday.

Olympian Maritza McClendon shares her journey becoming the first Black woman on a U.S. Olympic swim team as she prepares for the Chicago River Swim.

A 9-year-old boy shot and critically injured a teenage boy Friday afternoon inside of a home on the city's South Side, Chicago police said.

Prosecutors said witnesses told police a Chicago-area mother charged in her 2-year-old son's murder "had recently become very invested in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial." Her defense attorney told ABC7 she "was experiencing a psychotic episode."

The incident took place on American Airlines flight AA 618, which took off from Dallas and was en route to Newark, according to the FBI and the airline.

With a jury hung and Americans divided over the Lindsay Clancy trial, the conversation surrounding postnatal health is now at the forefront. ABC7 spoke with Chicago-area medical experts.