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 ...

A Chicago man was arrested this week nearly two months after he allegedly battered and carjacked a man at gunpoint on the ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...