With only a handful of days left before the calendar turns to 2026, Chicago is on pace to see its lowest homicide total since ...

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

Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of a two-part series on crime solutions from Katie Hill and Jens Ludwig of the University of Chicago Crime Lab. The overheated political moment we’re in has led people to ...

Chicago is on pace to end the year with the fewest homicides since the 1960s, a triumph for a city that since the pandemic has been beset with high levels of violence.

Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a two-part series on crime solutions from Katie Hill and Jens Ludwig of the University of Chicago Crime Lab. Read Part 1 here. Some of our fellow Chicagoans have come ...

Overall crime continued to drop as the number of murders in Chicago decreased from 587 in 2024 to 416 last year, when scores of federal immigration agents flooded the city and President Trump ...

On a mild spring night in Chicago, a woman told her 18-year-old boyfriend she wanted money for a barbecue. He rounded up three teenage friends, each with a long criminal record, and, according to ...