The task force addressed its progress for the first time this week, nearly a year after the formation of the unit was first ...

There are helpful things to do that don’t require lots of money or a big political fight, writes Jens Ludwig, director of the ...

A woman accused of shooting another woman during a fight on the city’s West Side this week is now facing a felony charge.

Officers were already on patrol just after 9:40 p.m. Friday in the 400-block of North City ... Chicago students. The incident also comes just a few days after a town hall to discuss safety and gun ...

Police said the 14-year-old has been charged with reckless discharge of a firearm and unlawful use of a weapon, both felonies ...

25-caliber chrome handgun recovered at a Chicago police gun buyback ... the boy wouldn’t say where the gun came from, deferring to his attorney. “I got to fight and stay strong,” he told ...

Cook County Judge William Stewart Boyd turned over two old guns at Immaculate Conception Church in South Chicago ... the gun at another officer after they responded to a call of a gang fight.

The scene was similar to dozens of other gun buyback events held ... Government Association and Chicago Sun-Times reported in 2017. After that report, the city launched an investigation that ...

At least one person was killed and 15 others were hurt in weekend shootings across the city as of Saturday, according to Chicago police. The ages of the victims range from 17 to 57.

The Chicago Torture ... return home, the fight to end the list raises an existential question: How should the state treat people who’ve been convicted of gun violence after they’ve served ...

The boy was arrested Monday in Chicago, after being identified as the person who, just after 9:40 p.m. on March 28, fired a gun, hitting a 15-year-old boy in the 400-block of North City Front ...