Information about homicides is released daily by the city of Chicago. The release of homicide victims’ names is delayed by two weeks to allow time for the victims’ families to be notified of a death ...

Chicago residents reported 28,443 violent crimes during 2024. Attacks and threats were both up, with aggravated assaults ...

As 63-year-old George Levin finished up a Sunday dinner with his mother and sister, two men left a nearby apartment armed with duct tape, prosecutors said, and entered the Norwood Park home after ...

A Trace analysis found that between 2021 and November 2024, the rate of incidents with response times longer than six minutes ...

Project Unloaded, a 501(c)(3) organization, was born in 2022 after the rise of school shootings. As founder of Project ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The city of Chicago continues to grapple with gun violence, which impacts hundreds of people every year. As of July 7, 2024, there have been almost 1,200 total reported shootings ...

Some moms and families of CPS students who lost their lives to gun violence are still waiting for arrests to be made. Others know suspects are in custody — but it does not make grieving any easier.

Judge Thomas E. Nowinski has been reassigned to traffic cases, but Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans still defended Nowinski's ...

A Chicago organization on a mission to counter violence by reinvesting in people. “Luv City” empowers the city’s youth ...

In a case indicative of the justice system’s slowly changing attitude toward domestic violence, a judge Monday shaved more than three years off the sentence of a Chicago woman who said she shot ...

As of Friday, there have already been five mass shootings nationwide in 2025, according to the Gun Violence Archive. In Chicago, the total number of murders and carjackings also were down in 2024.