Despite some headline-grabbing mayhem, Chicago’s gun violence fell to levels not seen in a decade in 2025, with a homicide ...

In 2025, Chicago had the fewest murders recorded since 1965, according to preliminary Chicago police data released Thursday.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson welcomed the New Year with a video message to residents focused on reflection, optimism, and ...

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

Chicago is on pace to finish the year with the fewest number of homicides in at least a decade. And violent crime overall is ...

Crime in Chicago had already declined dramatically before any federal deployment occurred. The reductions extended beyond ...

At times, 2025 brought deadly chaos to Chicago’s shimmering downtown: An 18-victim mass shooting in River North, the worst the city’s seen in years. The annual Christmas tree lighting marred by two ...

Early Sunday, four men getting into a Lamborghini were shot by four gunmen in the 400 block of North La Salle Drive. One man ...

A young mother said she and her 9-year-old son were beaten by a group of children and teens while walking Monday on Chicago's Far South Side, just blocks away from a Chicago Public School. According ...

Delphine Cherry looks out from her favorite spot in her home Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Hazel Crest, Ill. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) Delphine Cherry knows as well as anyone how intractable violent crime ...

Chicago experienced a spate of gun violence over the long Fourth of July holiday weekend during which 102 people were shot, including at least a dozen fatally, according to police reports.From July 3 ...

FBI found violence levels in Chicago increased 24 percent last year. — -- On a chilly Saturday, 20 volunteers sat in a movie theater-turned-church located on Chicago’s South Side, taking detailed ...