Republican state Sen. Steve McClure says Chicago’s rising violent crime numbers and data showing arrests have now dipped to ...

Less than two minutes after arriving on the scene and going up to the sixth floor, officers encountered Timothy Glaze. At ...

But one experiences about twice as many shootings per capita as the other. The University of Chicago economist Jens Ludwig ...

Chicago residents reported 28,443 violent crimes during 2024. Attacks and threats were both up, with aggravated assaults ...

A Trace analysis found that between 2021 and November 2024, the rate of incidents with response times longer than six minutes ...

As 63-year-old George Levin finished up a Sunday dinner with his mother and sister, two men left a nearby apartment armed with duct tape, prosecutors said, and entered the Norwood Park home after ...

In the past few days, police have arrested suspects in two of Chicago’s most horrific murder cases last year. Arrested Friday was Deron Wolfe, 19, who was charged with first-degree murder and armed ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The city of Chicago continues to grapple with gun violence, which impacts hundreds of people every year. As of July 7, 2024, there have been almost 1,200 total reported shootings ...

Six shooting deaths on the South and West sides, a fatal stabbing in Little Village and a vehicular homicide in Chicago Lawn. About a week into the new year, violence in Chicago ticked up slightly ...

A 33-page evaluation of the first year of the push dubbed the People’s Plan for Community Safety promises to continue working to reduce crime and violence by “addressing the root causes of harm and ...

IDPH launches a new dashboard for tracking firearm violence and deaths by county to inform prevention efforts in Illinois.