At least eight people were injured in shootings around Chicago on Monday, capping off a weekend that was the city's most violent of the year so far. ...

A 15-year-old boy was fatally shot by a Chicago police officer Sunday night in the third police-involved shooting of the weekend — the city's most v...

CHICAGO — Chicago Police are investigating several shootings after a violent weekend that left at least seven people dead and more than three do...

Story by Erica Demarest, courtesy DNAinfo Chicago: CHICAGO — Six people were killed and at least 13 others wounded in shootings between Saturday ...

Story by Tanveer Ali, courtesy of DNAinfo At least eight people were wounded, including three teenagers, in shootings citywide overnight. In Gre...

With homicides in Chicago so far this year at a reduced level not seen since the 1960s, the city is touting its policing strategies in response to the...

Clearly "voter power" will not pry lawmakers out of the NRA's cold dead hands but "consumer power" can and will. Ninety percent of the nation wants universal background checks and the fight is moving into the marketplace.

An 18-year-old woman killed during a drive-by was among the dozen people shot in just a six-hour span Monday. April McDaniel, 18, and four others ...

A 32-year-old Chicago mother was wounded in a shooting in broad daylight while walking her child home from school in the city's Pill Hill neighborhood...

A northwest suburban man is dead after he was shot multiple times following an argument with another man in the South Side Back of the Yards neighborh...

After his father was gunned down in Chicago's Auburn Gresham neighborhood two years ago, Patrick Sykes was so determined to escape the city's violent ...

Sunday morning, some teens shot at some other teens on my block. In fact, it happened directly in front of my house.

A 56-year-old woman who was found in the South Shore neighborhood with a single gunshot wound was among four people killed in a violent 12-hour span t...

Though Memorial Day weekend shootings were down from last year, gun violence marred the long weekend in several Chicago neighborhoods, leaving six dea...

Story by Erica Demarest, courtesy of DNAinfo Chicago. Six people have been killed and at least 11 others wounded in shootings across the city sinc...

Following Chicago's staggering 2012 total of more than 500 homicides, the human toll of gun violence in the Windy City is well-known. Now, a new ...

A Chicago boy was found gunned down in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the city's South Side Tuesday evening. Authorities identified the vic...

In yet another violent weekend in Chicago, a 12-year-old boy was among at least 23 people shot in gun-related incidents that left five dead citywide. ...

At least 11 people were wounded in overnight gun violence in Chicago -- and three of the victims died. The first fatal shooting happened around 7:2...

Two people were killed and at least 11 others were wounded in overnight shootings citywide in Chicago. A 19-year-old man was shot multiple times in...

People need a break from consistently viewing violence all over the news and when we have good news to report, we as leaders should step in and push the envelope by advocating for continued coverage of the significant reductions in Chicago homicides.

Two years ago, the names of towns like Newtown, Conn., Aurora, Colo. and Oak Creek, Wis. didn't sound all that different from anywhere else in the cou...

The relative of a long-time Englewood peace activist and an 82-year-old breast cancer survivor were among the three people killed and nearly dozen peo...