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A Chicago family is celebrating a special reunion. A service dog stolen from a little girl with autism is back home after ABC7's story aired.

An Air Quality Alert remains in effect for the Chicago area Friday due to smoke from Canadian wildfires. The alert was extended to be in effect through Saturday night.

A teen suspect has now been charged with first-degree murder after a 13-year-old boy was fatally shot two months ago on the city's South Side, Chicago police said.

A Chicago-area man is in ICE custody after being detained following a scheduled immigration status interview, his attorney said. His daughter, who serves in the U.S. Air Force, is now hoping for his release.

At a Taco Bell restaurant in Chicago's Loop, some customers said they are reconsidering their orders amid warnings tied to a cyclosporiasis outbreak linked to shredded iceberg lettuce from Mexico supplied by Taylor Farms to some Taco Bell locations.

Brenda Fricker, who won an Academy Award for her role as Bridget Fagan Brown in the 1989 film "My Left Foot,'' has died. She was 81.

Some Chicago city employees, including police officers, could face layoffs this fall as Mayor Johnson and members of the City Council's budget accountability coalition clash over responsibility for a projected $98 million midyear budget shortfall.

A strong earthquake struck the southern Mexican Pacific coast on Friday, right on the border with Guatemala, and was felt from Mexico City to El Salvador.

With immigration arrests ramping up across the Chicagoland area and nationwide, the ABC7 I-Team investigates how federal agents are instructed to react to the public filming enforcement action. An agent allegedly pointed a long gun directly at a Chicago woman.

The ABC7 I-Team with rare access inside a crime fighting powerhouse. How this local forensic lab is making a global impact, Tuesday at 10 p.m.