Mayor Brandon Johnson and police Supt. Larry Snelling said city and department initiatives — like a robbery task force — have ...

The recent show of force in Streeterville might serve as a metaphor for the state of the current response to Chicago’s crime ...

Three Chicago men were charged in connection with two separate expressway shootings in 2022 and 2024, Illinois State Police ...

Shane Jason Woods is expected to testify during his trial for allegedly causing a wrong-way crash on I-55 that killed Lauren ...

Shane Jason Woods of Taylorville, who once admitted assaulting two people at the U.S. Capitol, now faces trial over the 2022 ...

The first quarter had the fewest Chicago murders since early 2019. The city’s annual murder count has been dropping since 2021. How do these numbers compare to national trends? So far ...

Chicago remains the homicide capital of America — 13 years ... the homicide rate in our neighborhood of Woodlawn by 50% from 2021 to 2022. Most of those kids running inside those mobs don ...

A nearly three-year upswing ended last summer, WBEZ finds. The first three months of 2025 had the fewest robberies of any ...

In addition to raising the age that kids can be detained from 10 to 12, starting in mid-2027 the bill would also raise the ...

A routine traffic stop in August 2021 ended in tragedy when a Chicago police officer was shot multiple times and his partner, ...

The last time Chicago recorded fewer than 500 homicides was 2015, at 493, according to city violence data. Chicago in 2021 saw the highest number of shootings and homicides in a quarter-century as ...

Dearest brothers and sisters, with deep sorrow I must announce the death of our Holy Father Francis,” Cardinal Kevin Farrell ...