Special Reports

In a FOX 32 Special Report, we have a fascinating look at how a simple prescription adjustment is literally changing people’s lives overnight.

In a FOX 32 Special Report, we look at how Hollywood is keeping the conversation going about postpartum depression and what’s changing.

After months of planning, Trilogy began rolling out its First Response Alternative Crisis Team in January. Since then, it has received over 230 calls from people looking for mental help either for themselves or a family member.

They're crimes you may not always hear about, and they're happening at a rate some say is at an epidemic level: fatal attacks against transgender individuals.

The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) recently issued an emoji drug decoder to help parents know if, or when, their children are texting about illegal drugs.

Rush University's "Mirror Me" program teaches children with autism social and communication skills through play and engagement. Those are things that don't always come naturally.

Alejandro Perez was sitting at a stop sign at an intersection in Evanston when he says an Amazon driver backed across the intersection and into his car. Perez said through a translator that "he was at a stop sign looking around to see if there were any cars coming, and then all of sudden he just felt this ’boom' hit him."

Antioch public school parents are outraged over a controversial book in two high school libraries.

Cox said a good first step is to make sure you are taking care of your car according to the manufacturer specifications — that means knowing the recommended service intervals for things like oil changes and tire rotation.

Until now, the primary treatment was opioids.  But Chicago doctors are working to make them obsolete.

"The first place you want to look is your energy bill," said Consumer Expert Andrea Woroch. "A lot of people don't realize if they have gadgets, small kitchen appliances that are plugged in, but not in use…that they actually still consume energy — even in off mode." Woroch says that could account for about 10 percent of your energy bill.

In a FOX 32 Special Report, we take a look at a new device that’s in the works to cut down on fatal drug overdoses. “Within four minutes, you could be brain-dead.”

While gas and grocery prices have just recently started to rise, the cost of housing has been on the way up since last year.