Information about homicides is released daily by the city of Chicago. The release of homicide victims’ names is delayed by ...

Pritzker acknowledged there is no one reason Chicago's homicide rate is down 3% from last year, shootings down 40%, and ...

On this episode of "Paris on Politics," Illinois Senator Dick Durbin expresses concern, stating there's something that smells very fishy about the Department of Justice's secretive meeting last week ...

Officials in Manhattan and Chicago touted sharp drops in homicides in the first six months of 2025, compared to the same ...

A new report from the Council on Criminal Justice shows most major crime categories in Chicago are down below pre-pandemic levels, including homicides and sexual assaults.

Chicago is seeing a historic drop in violent crime in the first half of the year. According to the Chicago Police Department, homicides and shootings are both down more than 30% in the first six ...

Chicago’s murder rate is high, and it has risen significantly in the last two years. But the recent rate of killings is not unprecedented: During the mid-1990s, Chicago experienced a higher toll ...

The Crime Lab study found spikes in homicides among the nation’s largest cities are not uncommon, but the spike in homicide rate in Chicago between 2015 and 2016 — an increase of from 478 ...

Chicago's homicide clearance rate – the percentage of cases in which police arrest or identify a suspect – fell from 17.1 in 2017 to 15.4 during the first six months of 2018, the data shows.

KOTLOWITZ: Well, I think, you know, some perspective - 20 years ago, the homicide rate in Chicago was twice what it is today. So there's been, in some ways, terrific progress over the past couple ...