It's time to dispense with the 'conventional wisdom' approach that has brought little progress, writes the director of the ...

It was a jarring act of violence that again put Chicago in an unwanted spotlight and left River North on edge. A drive-by shooting into a crowd of people waiting outside a lounge on Chicago Avenue ...

The Democratic primary race for the Illinois 9th Congressional District is heating up with at least a dozen candidates, ...

Putting aside red and blue, doctors on the front lines of gun violence are teaching families how to protect themselves and ...

Gun violence is highest in Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods, where organizers say tackling poverty is the only way to create ...

It’s the first time since 2014 that fewer than 200 killings were recorded in Chicago between January and June, data shows.

Recent research at the Feinberg School of Medicine is framing gun violence as a public health crisis, focusing on the holistic social conditions — such as unemployment, poverty and more — that ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson joined WGN-TV on Wednesday, May 7, for a town hall marking two years since his swearing-in. The topic discussed included his approach to gun violence prevention in ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — State and local leaders credit a state-funded anti-violence program with what they say has lead to a significant decline in gun violence in Chicago and throughout Illinois.

You would think, If you don’t go to school, you can’t learn. It’s super intuitive. And yet, you get kids to come to school more often, and they don’t learn. Demsas: Wait. What’s going on?

Chicago mothers search for answers after losing sons to gun violence CHICAGO (CBS) -- A 16-year-old Chicago Public Schools student was remembered coming up on a year after he was gunned down while ...

October 8, 2024 Teens, Social Media, and Reducing Gun Violence: A Roadmap – Moderated by WTTW’s Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices Host Joanna Hernandez – Nina Vinik (Project Unloaded), Jadine Chou (CPS), ...