Chicago showed signs of progress in the city's fight against crime in 2025, as police data showed homicides were down more ...

As overall crime continued to drop in Chicago in 2025, the city ended the year with the fewest homicides in 60 years.

Chicago saw the fewest homicides in a single year in 2025 in six decades, according to data released by the Chicago Police ...

With only a handful of days left before the calendar turns to 2026, Chicago is on pace to see its lowest homicide total since ...

Chicago is on pace to finish the year with the fewest number of homicides in at least a decade. And violent crime overall is ...

Chicago’s struggles around public safety were the subject of many Chicago Tribune editorials in 2025. As part of our annual ...

Delphine Cherry knows as well as anyone how intractable violent crime is in Chicago. In 1992, her teenage daughter was gunned down in one of the city's toniest neighborhoods — a bystander caught up in ...

President Donald Trump mocked local officials last month, calling Chicago a “war zone” after they touted a drop in crime that brought the safest summer the city had seen since 1965. Now, his ...

President Donald Trump said he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and ...