Chicago Gun Violence

Following a bloody holiday weekend where gun violence claimed the lives of 11, including a 13-year-old boy, and wounded more than 40 others, Mayor Rah...

Making our neighborhoods safe won't be easy. We need to provide the young with the best, not the worst, educational opportunities. We need the police to make protecting the citizens of those streets a greater priority.

CHICAGO — After an especially bloody weekend in Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the city's police commanders said Tuesday they have a new plan f...

At least seven people -- including two youths, aged 12 and 14 -- were fatally shot over the weekend in Chicago while the NATO summit and the protests ...

After a bloody weekend plagued by gun violence, shootings this week suggest that firearm access in Chicago remains a significant source of the city's ...

A Chicago mother who was shot, along with her daughter, while sleeping in their bedroom in West Pullman is speaking out about the incident. Tonishi...

Three people were killed and seven others injured in shootings Friday evening into Saturday morning in Chicago, continuing what has already been a blo...

A 1-year-old girl is in critical condition after she and her mother were shot while sleeping in their South Side home. Tonishia Allen, 24, and he...

Hundreds of Chicagoans poured into the streets on the city's West Side Sunday to rally against youth violence not only in solidarity with slain Florid...

Gun violence killed one and injured at least eight overnight Saturday in Chicago. According to the Chicago Tribune, a man in his 20s was found dead...

Two men were fatally shot and 11 others wounded, many critically, in gun violence over a bloody six-hour period in Chicago Thursday evening, on the ci...

Three Chicago men were fatally shot inside an apartment on the city's South Side Tuesday evening. Terry L. Brown, 34, was found dead inside the apa...

A 20-year-old McDonald's employee has been charged in the near-fatal shooting of a decorated Chicago police officer. Paris Sadler is due to appear ...

After a particularly bloody weekend in Chicago that left 10 dead and at least 40 wounded in a rash of gun violence, city officials and community membe...

Updated story A Chicago police officer was shot in the chest and critically injured after he chased after an alleged curfew violator in the city's...

At least 10 people were killed and 40 others wounded in one of the most violent Chicago weekends in recent history. The Chicago Sun-Times reports ...

Two Chicago teens were charged Sunday in the weekend shooting death of 6-year-old Aliyah Shell in the city's Little Village neighborhood. Juan Barr...

A 6-year-old girl was fatally shot Saturday afternoon -- one of five individuals wounded within one hour in separate shootings across the city and one...

Two men were killed, one of them a teenager, and at least six others were hurt in shootings in Chicago Saturday evening into early Sunday. Edgar De...

Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy on Wednesday announced that his department removed 131 illegal guns from the city's streets on New Year's...

A Chicago eighth grader was killed Wednesday evening after he walked out of his apartment. Deontae Malone, 15, of the city's Marquette Park neighbo...

Four people were hospitalized Sunday after being shot inside a Back of the Yards home on Chicago's South Side. Police discovered two 17-year-old b...

A 13-year-old girl was hospitalized in critical condition after she was shot in the chest early Sunday in Chicago's West Englewood neighborhood. Ac...

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was among the attendees at a Monday memorial honoring some 260 Chicago Public School students killed by violence during the...

A man celebrating his 24th birthday with family and friends early Sunday was killed when a masked gunman entered the Northwest Side surprise party and...