Tramier Pate, 25, was sentenced to 85 years in prison for the first-degree murder of 14-year-old Omarius Gates during a ...

Homicides and shootings are falling fast in Chicago, but experts say deeper change is needed to close the gap with safer big ...

The Safe Gun Storage Act requires owners to keep weapons in a locked box around minors and at-risk individuals. Another bill ...

Two new gun laws were signed by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker this week, bringing changes to things like gun storage and ...

With gun violence still a persistent problem despite recent drops in Chicago, Gov. JB Pritzker signed a pair of gun control ...

A steep decline in violent crime comes as President Trump amplifies concerns about crime, at times citing misleading ...

Joseph Czuba, who stabbed an innocent 6-year-old Palestinian boy 26 times, died in prison just months after his sentencing.

President Donald Trump is under pressure to release Justice Department files related to the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case, but he has shifted the focus ...

Research presented to the county's Criminal Justice Coordinating Council indicate young adults are a critical population in ...

President Donald Trump has claimed that cashless bail reforms have led to rising crime in U.S. cities. However, data has not determined the impact of cashless bail on crime rates.

Naperville ranked No. 19 on U.S. News & World Report’s 2025-26 list of “Safest Places to Live in the U.S.,” tying with Palatine and coming in after Buffalo Grove at No. 18 and Arlington Heights at No.

The holiday crime stats are a big improvement over 2024, when 100 people were shot and 19 were killed, and over 2023 when 73 were shot, 11 fatally. It’s been six years, in fact, since the ...