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 ...

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 ...

Six shooting deaths on the South and West sides, a fatal stabbing in Little Village and a vehicular homicide in Chicago Lawn. About a week into the new year, violence in Chicago ticked up slightly ...

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

Six shooting deaths on the South and West sides, a fatal stabbing in Little Village and a vehicular homicide in Chicago Lawn. About a week into the new year, violence in Chicago ticked up slightly ...

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.

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

(CBS) -- The family of a Rockford man killed in Mexico is calling on that country's president to stop the violence ... a 14-year-old boy from Chicago was critically wounded in an area that ...

Family, friends and community members light candles at a memorial for Ariana Molina, a 9-year-old girl who was killed in a mass shooting in Back of the Yards in April. Ten of her family members ...

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