The Chicago Public Safety DataHub will track the most recent data on violent crime in Chicago and allow users to compare it ...

According to data from the city and Chicago Police Department, total violent crime is down at least 22% thus far in 2025, while there have been 90 fewer homicides and more than 400 fewer shootings ...

In Chicago, if you were to be shot today - you’d be more likely to die from your injuries than you would have been 13 years ago. That’s the finding of a new report from nonprofit news outlet ...

The City of Chicago has scaled up its Community Violence Intervention (CVI) program, resulting in a 39% decrease in shooting incidents, a 35% decrease in fatal shootings, and a 41% decrease in ...

Chicago saw a slight decrease in murders and shootings in 2024, with 573 murders and 2283 shooting incidents, compared to 620 murders and 2876 shooting incidents in 2023. Skip to content WGN-TV ...

Chicago authorities have made arrests of suspects in only 6% of the Windy City’s 19,000 non-fatal shootings in the past seven years, according to a deep dive conducted by the Chicago Sun-Times.

The economic impact of gun violence in the US reached $557 billion ... A 2021 report titled “The Evidence of Effectiveness,” from the Chicago nonprofit Cure Violence Global, demonstrated that cities ...

A Chicago lifeguard faces murder charges for fatally shooting one teen and injuring another near Douglass Park.

Threats of violence have sparked chaos at dozens of schools in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs since the beginning of the school year, leading to lockdowns, security screenings and days of remo… ...

In 1966, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Chicago's West Side to protest against discriminatory housing practices. The neighborhood went into an uproar following his assassination ...