As you likely know by now, a federal jury deadlocked last week on all three corruption charges against Illinois state Sen.

Conventional wisdom about violence is wrong, Jens Ludwig, director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, says in ...

More than five years ago, the Police Executive Research Forum recommended that the department overhaul its homicide ...

U.S. News and World Report has Kansas City listed as number eight on a list of 25 most dangerous places for 2024-2025. The ...

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According to The Pew Charitable Trusts’ 2025 State of the City report, poverty and violent crime in Philadelphia are ...

An Illinois judge on Thursday sentenced a man to life in prison without the possibility of parole for a 2022 mass shooting at an Independence Day parade in a Chicago suburb that killed seven people, ...

Lake County Judge Victoria Rossetti handed down seven consecutive sentences of natural life in prison without the possibility ...

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — The man who admitted to a 2022 mass shooting at a suburban Chicago Independence Day parade refused to ...

However, holidaymakers might want to think twice before booking their summer trips, as the Atlantic Ocean island group has one of the world's highest murder rates. The archipelago recorded 103 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Crash-and-grab thieves targeted a GameStop location on the Southwest Side early Sunday morning, Chicago police said. Officers responded to the Heart of Chicago neighborhood's 2300 ...