1 Dead, 23 Wounded In New Year's Weekend Shootings Across Chicago
At least 16 other people were wounded in shootings across Chicago between 8:30 p.m. Friday and 6:30 a.m. Monday.
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At least 16 other people were wounded in shootings across Chicago between 8:30 p.m. Friday and 6:30 a.m. Monday.
Overall, Chicago saw 650 murders in 2017, down from 771 the previous year, according to Chicago Police.
Pamela Bosley said Chicagoans are desensitized to gun violence.
Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin said leaders in Chicago and Cook County have failed to protect many communities from violent crime.
During a press conference in South Korea, the president was asked if he would consider "extreme vetting" for gun purchases.
At least eight of the guns he bought were later recovered in the possession of other people, including minors and felons, in Indiana, Illinois and Ohio.
For the eighth-straight month this year, Chicago saw a reduction in gun violence in October, the police department announced Wednesday.
Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood is trying to go beyond treating wounds to address the gun violence plaguing the area.
The group of students from 20 schools hit hard by violence heard from Dr. Greg Primus, a former Bears wide receiver who played three years in Chicago and went on to become a surgeon.
Kennedy says the state must be tough on railroad companies that fail to protect shipments of guns that make their way through Illinois.
Bank officials said Thursday that poverty, racial and economic inequities, and a lack of opportunity are factors behind Chicago gun violence
Brent Turpin, a special education teacher in Englewood, was arrested Tuesday and faces one count of conspiracy to dispose of a firearm and ammunition to a known felon.
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Chicago Police Department officials say the city's investment in crime-fighting technology is helping officers.
A man was caught with a loaded handgun in his carry-on bag Thursday morning at Midway International Airport.
A group of Chicago youths has launched an effort to camp out overnight this summer in neighborhoods plagued by shootings.
The shooting death of a young woman on Ohio Street this past weekend has community activists and a candidate for Governor calling for new thinking in the effort to stop gun violence.
Family members say Jervon Morris, who had several disabilities, was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Police have released a sketch of the suspect who sexually assaulted and robbed a woman at gunpoint last month in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood on the South Side.
The rain hasn't stopped the shootings in Chicago this weekend, but it did postpone a prayer line to honor gunshot victims.
Two were people shot on Tuesday evening in the Belmont Central neighborhood, bringing Chicago's gun violence toll to 1,000 victims this year.
Police say two students accused of planning to carry out a shooting at their suburban Chicago middle school didn't have any weapons nor apparently any access to guns.
A group of men held up a tow truck driver at gunpoint on the West Side early Friday, then took off in the car that was being towed.
Chicago Aldermen approved a further crackdown on party buses, but further revisions may require state law changes.
Police said Judge Raymond Myles and the woman were getting ready to go to the gym shortly before 5 am, when they were shot outside his home.
