Safety Concerns Growing After Opening Of Panera Cares In Lakeview
Concern about safety is growing in one Chicago neighborhood and some of the people who live there say a unique restaurant may be to blame.
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Concern about safety is growing in one Chicago neighborhood and some of the people who live there say a unique restaurant may be to blame.
A Chicago alderman wants to add a fee to your electric bill so the city can hire more police officers.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel says it's a crime-fighting game-changer.
Gov. Quinn has signed a law that will allow school officials and law enforcement authorities to share juvenile criminal records on a limited basis.
Police Supt. Garry McCarthy says despite the weekend violence that left nine dead, officers were able to diffuse a potentially dangerous situation on Michigan Avenue.
After months of criticism and complaining President Obama finally reacts to the horrific crime rate and record-breaking murder rate in Chicago.
Many who supported Obama in 2008 did so because they believed that he would help black Americans. The criticism four years later is that having a black president in the White House hasn't helped African Americans at all.
Throughout the city and suburbs and across America, this is the National Night Out.
Flash mobs were once innocent social experiments, but now are all too often racial attacks. Unfortunately, the media continues to paint a rosy picture and fails to report the violence and crime they cause.
As cities struggle to contain gang violence, which claims lives and holds communities hostage, federal government is sending in special agents to help -- but not to Chicago.
Twelve residential buildings on the South and West Side were scheduled to be torn down Thursday, in an effort to eliminate hives for gang activity and violent crime.
The man in charge of promoting Chicago conventions and tourism is backpedaling on reports quoting him as saying that the recent crime wave in the city is going to damage his best efforts, unless it is quickly quelled.
For America's big cities: the people who are supposed to have, need to have, and claim to have all the answers simply don't have a clue.
Violence has become not just a problem for Chicago's most dangerous areas, but the adjoining neighborhoods as well.
Chicago Police and the Chicago Transit Authority believe they have a plan to try to cut down on the number of serious crimes that are committed on buses and trains.
Passengers on the CTA Red Line may want to be more alert, as new research says it's the line most targeted by criminals.
Chicago doesn't make the top 10, according to recent FBI violent crime statistics.
In a weekend marred by a rash of shootings that left at least eight people dead and 40 wounded – as well as three violent mob attacks on innocent people in and around downtown, police Supt. Garry McCarthy emphasizes that the problem of violence in Chicago is "not going to be solved overnight."
The first week of summer has proven to be less violent this year in Chicago. But CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports Police Supt. Garry McCarthy stopped well short of saying "mission accomplished."
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has long insisted it would take more than a police force to rid some neighborhoods of gangs, guns and drugs. With a 52 percent rise in the murder rate so far this year, the Emanuel administration is now rolling out the "community" component to its crime-fighting efforts.
Police officers in the northwest suburb are using all kinds of apps to help keep criminals at bay. CBS 2's Mai Martinez reports.
Police First Deputy Supt. Al Wysinger is talking about plans to cut crime in the struggling Englewood and Harrison districts. But Wysinger says simply hiring more police officers is not the answer.
Police say on Wednesday, no shootings or homicides were reported in Chicago for a period of 24 hours, for the first time in nearly a year.
