Chicago IL

Several new laws take effect in Illinois on July 1, 2025.

A man who was found shot to death on the city's Northwest Side has been identified, Chicago police said.

Chicago police recorded five homicides and 18 non-fatal shootings over the weekend, the best performance for the same weekend in at least a decade, according to HeyJackass, a site that independently tracks Chicago crime data. The most high-profile case was the fatal stabbing of a 56-year-old man at the Navy...

A 19-year-old has been charged in the deadly shooting of a 35-year-old man in Austin, Chicago police said.

The burglaries all happened between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. Friday, June 27.

CHICAGO - Two men have been charged with robbing and beating a man on a CTA bus in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood over the weekend. Chicago police say Jaylen Lechuga, 19, of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and Isaiah Miggins, 21, of Chicago, attacked a 47-year-old man on a bus in the 3400 block of South Indiana Avenue on...

Four new Chicago speed cameras which were turned on in May officially start issuing tickets Monday.

CHICAGO — A heated warning from a longtime Chicago alderman is reigniting debate over the city’s escalating violence and how leadership is addressing public safety. Chicago, once again, led the nation in homicides in 2024, prompting 41st Ward Alderman Anthony Napolitano to blast local leaders for what he described as...

CHICAGO — A 20-year-old woman was fatally shot in Washington Park Friday night, but it took 16 minutes for police and paramedics to find her body — a delay attributed to a wrong 911 address and the deactivation of ShotSpotter, Chicago’s now-defunct gunfire detection system. The tragedy...

CHICAGO — For the first time in over a decade, Chicago is on pace to close the first half of a calendar year with fewer than 200 homicides, as 2025 marks the city’s steepest drop in violent crime in recent memory. City data and law enforcement statistics show...