Leaders from various groups helping disrupt crime met to discuss what has been going on this summer in Chicago, and how to ...

The city of Chicago saw a historic drop in homicides in the first half of the year, a trend that has largely been mirrored ...

The measure would have given CPD more control to prevent teen gatherings in downtown business and tourist districts.

The City Council needs 34 votes to override Mayor Brandon Johnson’s veto of an ordinance that would allow the police to enact ...

A violent Independence Day weekend has Chicagoans worried about violent crime, but it was a spike and not a trend. Crime is ...

Major cities across the country, including New York and Los Angeles, have seen significant dips in violent crime since the ...

A mass shooting in River North Wednesday night ripped off a scab on Chicago’s violence that was just beginning to form.

ABC7 is tracking gun violence across Chicago throughout summer 2025. 24/7 Live Chicago & Suburban Cook Co. North Suburbs West Suburbs South Suburbs NW Indiana Welcome, Mickey ...

How long will Chicago align its policies and imagination with the racial stereotype that young Black folks aren’t children and are somehow inherently dangerous and other?

Just weeks after a deadly mass shooting left four dead and 14 others injured outside of a business in River North, the owners have announced they are closing the doors for good. In a ...

Chicago’s gun violence proved unrelenting in 2021, as the fear and unease many neighborhoods have long felt spread into wealthier, traditionally safer parts of the city.

Fourteen people were injured and four were killed in a drive-by shooting outside a lounge in Chicago's River North ...