Overall crime continued to drop as the number of murders in Chicago decreased from 587 in 2024 to 416 last year, when scores ...

Chicago recorded 435 homicides in 2010, marking the city’s lowest murder rate in 45 years, according to preliminary statistics released Saturday by the Chicago Police Department. The 2010 total was ...

Chicago has seen fewer murders so far this year than any year since 1965, officials said. The city finished November down 25 percent in shootings, 20 percent in murders and 15 percent in overall crime ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7--The brief freeze of $30 million in federal aid to Chicago schools last Friday and the surprise release of the funds yesterday drew angry comments today from all parties involved in ...

Chicago police reported a 6 percent decrease in murder through the first 10 months of 2014 compared to the same time period last year. The 33 murders in October tied 2013 for the fewest in the month ...

Chicago is on pace to see its fewest murders in a half-century, officials said, marking a major turning point just one year after the violence-plagued city logged 500 homicides — the most of any city ...

The weather event known as a derecho is a widespread summer storm capable of traveling thousands of miles with hurricane-force winds of up to 100 mph. A Spanish word, derecho (deh-ray’-cho) is the ...

Reviewed by Erik S. Gellman in African arts (Los Angeles) 56 (1) spring 2023, pages 95-96. (N1.A258 AFA). In the 1960s and early 1970s, Chicago witnessed a remarkable flourishing of visual arts ...