Look at any map of Chicago measuring crime or poverty, and you’ll see a disheartening picture: The communities with less ...

CHICAGO - A man was robbed at gunpoint on Chicago's Near North Side early Tuesday. At about 2:40 a.m., a 44-year-old man was ...

Simply put, racketeering means engaging in an illegal scheme. It’s used in the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations ...

Three masked individuals left the Speedway gas station, 18002 Halsted St., with an undisclosed amount of cash and merchandise ...

CHICAGO - Four people were shot, including a 13-year-old girl, while inside a business in Chicago's Back of the Yards ...

A Chicago man was arrested this week nearly two months after he allegedly battered and carjacked a man at gunpoint on the ...

Next week marks one year since Illinois outlawed cash bail, and advocates and critics of the change have been waiting ...

Crime is a major issue in this year’s election, yet major media ignored the release of a significant new government report showing a surge in violent crime. The increase in violent crime during the ...

A man has been charged with robbing a store at gunpoint Wednesday in the Logan Square neighborhood. Johnny Hunt, 27, was ...

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday on the rise of hate crimes, GOP senators offered no words of condolence to Hanan Shaheen, the mother of Wadee Alfayoumi, the boy stabbed to death in ...

whether or not that feeling is tied to recent crime. Ensuring safety should be a broader effort that includes more agencies and a regional focus that doesn’t end at the Chicago city limits ...

"The mayor referenced the veto because the thing that passed is in violation of the Separation of Powers Act," Chicago ...