A state representative from Chicago has been robbed at gunpoint....
Chicago Breaking News | Posted 10.18.2009 | Chicago
A 21-year-old man was stabbed in his abdomen Saturday while visiting Navy Pier, officials said....
Chicago Tribune | Annie Sweeney | Posted 10.12.2009 | Chicago
Homicides continued to decline this year in Chicago through September, including homicides of school-age children, according to Police Department stat...
Charles Butler | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
While I hate to say I told you so, however I told you so. I predicted that the Chicago 2016 Committee would lose the bid for the Olympics. My reasons...
Kevin Coval | Posted 10.06.2009 | Chicago
The city will be abuzz with language and records of now from people who are normally never heard from, the youth. Seen and now heard. And safe.
Chicago Sun-Times | MAUREEN O'DONNELL AND FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.06.2009 | Chicago
On his first day back at work after the Olympics debacle, Mayor Daley called a high-level meeting Monday with city and school officials to seek an ans...
Chicago Breaking News | Posted 10.05.2009 | Chicago
Police were reporting few leads this morning in the weekend beating death of the longtime owner of a Lincoln Square bar, but the alderman in the area ...
AP | CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 10.04.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — The funeral of a Chicago teen who was beaten to death on his way home from school drew civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson and ...
AP | Posted 10.01.2009 | Chicago
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is sending Attorney General Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan to Chicago next week to discuss ...
CBS 2 | Posted 10.01.2009 | Chicago
A 14-year-old boy is in critical condition after police say he was chased down and beaten by a mob of other teens in the Edgewater neighborhood, in an...
Chicago Sun-Times | Lynn Sweet | Posted 09.30.2009 | Chicago
First Lady Michelle Obama, off to Copenhagen on Tuesday night to lobby for Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid, said the rash of crime in Chicago won't hurt th...
Huffington Post | Posted 09.30.2009 | Chicago
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the beating death of 16-year-old honor student Derrion Albert was discussed at President Obama's morning meeti...
The Daily Northwestern | Lauren Kelleher | Posted 09.28.2009 | Chicago
According to acclaimed author Alex Kotlowitz, an unlikely tool - public health - can be used to help combat violence in Chicago's impoverished neighbo...
Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 09.21.2009 | Chicago
A man was charged Thursday for the violent attack on a rookie firefighter early Wednesday in the North Side's Lincoln Park neighborhood, police said....
Tracy Siska | Posted 09.19.2009 | Chicago
The differences between crime rates for different areas of the city have deep social roots. You cannot expect communities that have been all but written off to not struggle with violence.
Chicago Tribune | Liam Ford and Pat Curry | Posted 09.19.2009 | Chicago
An off-duty Chicago firefighter was beaten in the Lincoln Park neighborhood this morning, suffering facial fractures and internal bleeding....
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 09.17.2009 | Chicago
UPDATED Uptown residents are furious over escalating neighborhood violence and what they perceive as their alderman's ambivalence to it. Fed up afte...
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 09.13.2009 | Chicago
Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis denied Thursday that the media spotlight on muggings in Lincoln Park and Lake View has turned up the political...
NBC Chicago | ANDREW GREINER | Posted 09.12.2009 | Chicago
Chicago police released the man they labeled a "person of interest" in a string of Lincoln Park muggings. ...
Huffington Post | Posted 09.03.2009 | Chicago
An uncharacteristic violence spree continued last night in Lincoln Park and Lakeview as three more men were attacked, becoming the fifth, sixth and se...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 08.29.2009 | Chicago
At least 15 people were wounded in shootings on the South and West Sides Tuesday night and early this morning, according to police....
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 08.06.2009 | Chicago
News reports characterizing the Taste of Chicago and Friday night's Independence Day fireworks show in Grant Park as "peaceful" have led some bloggers...
Chicago Sun-Times | MARK J. KONKOL | Posted 07.24.2009 | Chicago
Chicago is home to four of the top 25 most dangerous "neighborhoods" in the country, including a sliver of Washington Park that ranked No. 2, a recent...
AP | Posted 07.19.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Illinois Senator Dick Durbin has asked Attorney General Eric Holder to help lower the youth crime rate in Chicago. Durbin visited wit...
AP | Posted 07.02.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago had seven shooting deaths in 24 hours this weekend, and police say they have no suspects in custody. All seven victims were m...
Fox Chicago | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago