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 ...

Thieves crashed a vehicle after carjacking a woman at gunpoint Thursday night in the Washington Heights neighborhood, ...

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

There is an era in the history of many cities that is inextricably linked, in the public imagination, to crime and ...

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 ...

The debate over ShotSpotter, Chicago's gunshot detection technology, is set to continue as some City Council members push for ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A store clerk was robbed at gunpoint in the Logan Square neighborhood Wednesday night, Chicago police said. The incident occurred at about 9:28 p.m. in the 2700-block of West North ...

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 ...