According to data from the city and Chicago Police Department, total violent crime is down at least 22% thus far in 2025, ...

The city of Chicago saw a historic drop in homicides in the first half of the year, a trend that has largely been mirrored ...

Seeking to identify long-term shifts in how the criminal justice system operates in Cook County, Loyola University ...

A violent Independence Day weekend has Chicagoans worried about violent crime, but it was a spike and not a trend. Crime is ...

Major cities across the country, including New York and Los Angeles, have seen significant dips in violent crime since the ...

Chicago police are leveraging additional tools and staffing resources inside of a high-tech CTA support center to fight crime ...

A mass shooting in River North Wednesday night ripped off a scab on Chicago’s violence that was just beginning to form.

The Fourth of July weekend is traditionally a time for families to come together for food, fun and fireworks. Unfortunately, ...

Chicago’s gun violence proved unrelenting in 2021, as the fear and unease many neighborhoods have long felt spread into wealthier, traditionally safer parts of the city.

Chicago’s violence surged in 2016, as police community relations tanked in the months following the court-ordered release of video showing teenager Laquan McDonald’s killing on the Southwest ...

Fourteen people were injured and four were killed in a drive-by shooting outside a lounge in Chicago's River North ...