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 ...

A Pew Research report in 2016 found that “voters are usually more likely to say crime is up than down, regardless of what official statistics show.” For decades, Gallup has asked people ...

And more robbers are carrying guns, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab. In 2019, about 40% of robberies involved a gun. That surged to 60% in 2023.

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

Meanwhile, 67 Chicago police officers have been shot at — 10 of them struck by bullets — so far this year. That’s nearly a four-fold increase from last year.

A man passes crime scene tape as members of the Chicago Police Department investigate a fatal shooting in front of a church in the 2800 block of East 79th Street on Dec. 25, 2016. Armando L ...

We look at where most of America’s gun violence happens. By German Lopez and Ashley Wu Since a gunman killed seven people at a Chicago suburb’s July 4 parade, more than 160 people have died ...

In Chicago, a program called CeaseFire is working to curb violence by helping at-risk youth find employment and patrolling the streets to stop crimes before they happen. Shooting And Getting Shot At ...

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 ...

I get a sense of that when I talk with young men in Chicago who participate in violence prevention efforts. Kids are wearing that ice-grill for some very real reasons in their world.