Chicago Violence

For more than 50 Chicago women who have lost children to violence rallied against the city's high crime rate in honor of Mother's Day Sunday. The d...

UPDATE: Since this story was originally posted, at least 9 other people were shot in Chicago. WLS reports that the shootings continued through Sunday ...

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 ...

CHICAGO — Homicides in Chicago spiked by 60 percent during the first three months of the year despite an increase in police resources in some of...

CHICAGO -- A nephew of Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade was one of 13 men shot – two fatally – during a violent six-hour stretch in Chicago, an...

U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) weighed in on the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin Wednesday, and said he hopes those outraged about the unarmed black...

Ron Holt was leaving the press conference when he nearly stepped into the path of a briskly marching Garry McCarthy, the Chicago police superintendent...

A Chicago man was ordered held lieu of $750,000 bail Thursday after allegedly making a telephone threat against Mayor Rahm Emanuel. King Heard, 64...

Rev. Michael Pfleger has participated in a fair share of funerals and anti-violence marches near his church on Chicago's South Side. Gun violence is a...

An 11-year-old boy who was playing outside with friends on an unseasonably warm day was shot Tuesday afternoon in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood. ...

The family of a Chicago student who was fatally stabbed by a classmate Thursday morning said when they heard the news, it felt "like a bad dream." ...

Updated story CHICAGO -- At least one student has died and another is hospitalized in critical condition following a stabbing at a school on Chicag...

At least 20 people, including one child and several teens, have been wounded so far during a violent and unseasonably warm weekend in Chicago. The...

The Chicago Crime Commission released an updated book about Chicago gangs this week, which reveals that the Windy City has more gang members than any ...

For Chicagoans, violence is often much too close to home. So how do we put an end to this violence and create peace?

At least 14 people were wounded by gunfire on an unseasonably warm Thursday in Chicago. The violence began about 1:15 p.m., when a 20-year-old man...

Rev. Corey Brooks has been on the ground only once in the six weeks since he began living, praying and preaching from a tent pitched on the windswept ...

An 18-year-old woman from the Northwest suburbs, shut out of a New Year's Eve concert because she didn't bring an ID, was sexually assaulted and beate...

An off-duty Chicago Police officer was killed Thursday night while working security at a West Side grocery store. According to NBC Chicago, Clifto...

Two people were killed and five others wounded Tuesday night when a gunman opened fire at a Church's Chicken restaurant on Chicago's South Side. T...

Chicago's Uptown neighborhood has been plagued by violence in recent weeks, and one alderman says gangs are to blame. As CBS Chicago reports, at l...

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has been dogged by questions about his presidential ambitions since he announced his run for mayor more than a year ago. Th...

Updated story A 6-year-old Chicago boy was hospitalized Sunday after he was shot in the chest by his teenage uncle during an apparent game of "cops...

Chicago police have launched an investigation into a disturbing Internet video which shows a young man punching an apparently homeless older man, knoc...

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