The number of homicides, shootings and violent crimes in the city is falling, according to the latest data from Chicago Mayor ...

More than six years after actor Jussie Smollett said he was the victim of a hate crime in Chicago that he was later accused of staging, the actor has reached a settlement with the city.

A 17-year-old boy was charged in connection with the 2024 shooting death of a 25-year-old man on Chicago’s South Side.

The homicide figures do not include killings that occurred in self-defense or in other circumstances not measured in Chicago ...

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In January 2019, Smollett reported to police that he had been the victim of a racist and homophobic attack in a Chicago neighborhood. He described the incident as a hate crime. After an investigation, ...

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice cuts hundreds of federal grants for violence prevention, hurting victims and ...

For decades, conservatives and liberals have fiercely debated what drives the nation’s gun violence epidemic. But a new book called “Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence ...

CHICAGO - A 39-year-old man was stabbed to death on the city’s South Side on Saturday morning. The attack happened in the 3500 block of South Rhodes Avenue in the Douglas neighborhood, according ...

Crime rates in rural communities are consistently higher than in urban centres, suggests new data presented in a Statistics Canada report — a long-term trend one criminologist says is unsurprising.