“The presence of even one murder has a great cost,” said Kim Smith, the director of national programs at the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab. Violence interruption and intervention programs have ...

As U.S. police departments release preliminary or finalized 2024 crime numbers, many are reporting historic declines in ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Chicago woman has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a 1-year-old girl on the city's West Side, police said. Police said 37-year-old Marisol Vazquez was ...

according to a study from the University of Chicago Crime Lab. After city officials and police worked together, the city's Public Service Department increased trash cleanup and checked lights in ...

One of those killed in the attack was Kareem Badawi, a University of Alabama student. The school's president Stuart Bell confirmed the news in a statement posted on the school's website and shared ...

When Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation” on Feb. 24, 2022, University of Chicago Prof. Konstantin Sonin called the full-scale invasion of Ukraine “the end of ...

“We’re not in the clear by any means,” as Kim Smith, a director at the University of Chicago Crime Lab, put it. Chicago will always be vulnerable to unrelenting violence, unless we all do ...