Leaders from various groups helping disrupt crime met to discuss what has been going on this summer in Chicago, and how to ...

Officials in Manhattan and Chicago touted sharp drops in homicides in the first six months of 2025, compared to the same period last year.

Chicago's violent crime rate has been slowly rising since 2019, after steady declines from a high in 2016. There were nearly 27,700 violent crimes reported in the city so far this year, ...

A violent Independence Day weekend has Chicagoans worried about violent crime, but it was a spike and not a trend. Crime is ...

The rate peaked at 4.2 as transit use dropped to a low point in 2021. After three years of partial ridership recovery, the CTA’s violent crime rate for the first half of this year was 3.4.

Chicago saw fewer murders — at 695 — last year than in 2021, when the city saw 804, according to Chicago police crime stats. Still, the 2022 murder rate is higher than the pre-COVID rate in 2019.

Embattled Chicago cops are making fewer arrests than any time in the last 20 years -- even as violent crimes soar to record highs, according to alarming data. Arrests were made in just 12% of ...