Information about homicides is released daily by the city of Chicago. The release of homicide victims’ names is delayed by ...

"If they are going to prove this isn't self-defense," defense attorney Brandon Hicks said, "they should be able to tell who shot first in the confrontation." ...

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 ...

Use the table below to look up how the number of gang crimes reported in your neighborhood compared to the rest of the city.

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

Gary Shanklin Jr., 23, allegedly shot Nalisha Martin, 43, and Christopher Burks, 52, after a "confrontation" in the 1200 block of West 149th Avenue.

Programs partly funded by the flow of opioid settlement cash are beginning to turn the tide, experts and preliminary data ...

As U.S. police departments release preliminary or finalized 2024 crime numbers, many are reporting historic declines in homicides and drops in other violent crimes compared to 2023.

From 2010 to 2020, the total share of U.S. violent crime victims who were Black increased by 3.2 percent to 32.7 percent of ...

Many big cities have seen homicide numbers return to prepandemic norms. That hasn't yet been the case in Seattle.

New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Houston, Detroit, Baltimore and dozens of other cities have reported ...