With only a handful of days left before the calendar turns to 2026, Chicago is on pace to see its lowest homicide total since ...

Chicago is on pace to finish the year with the fewest number of homicides in at least a decade. And violent crime overall is also significantly down.

Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a two-part series on crime solutions from Katie Hill and Jens Ludwig of the University of Chicago Crime Lab. Read Part 1 here. Some of our fellow Chicagoans have come ...

For the first time, five of Chicago's professional sports teams are joining together to work on a vital social issue, lending their broad reach and resources in support of solutions to decrease ...

City officials and their nonprofit partners point to programs and tactics, but much of what’s happening is outside of their ...

Chicago is on pace to end the year with the fewest homicides since the 1960s, a triumph for a city that since the pandemic ...

The Chicago Sports Alliance, the collaboration of five of Chicago's professional sports teams, announced it will move forward in 2019 to lend the teams' collective reach and resources in support of ...

When two Chicago nonprofits and a team of academic researchers conducted a low-cost randomized, controlled trial on a youth-violence prevention program, they didn’t just gain solid data that proved it ...

The Chattanooga Police Department announced that Neighborhood Policing Captain Daniel Francis has completed the University of Chicago Crime Lab’s Policing Leadership Academy, a nationally recognized ...

President Donald Trump’s threats to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago sent ripples through America’s third-largest city as many residents defended their home against Trump’s escalating rhetoric ...