As U.S. police departments release preliminary or finalized 2024 crime numbers, many are reporting historic declines in homicides and drops in other violent crimes compared to 2023.

“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 helped decrease gun violence and homicide numbers in ...

Chicago residents reported 28,443 violent crimes during 2024. Attacks and threats were both up, with aggravated assaults hitting a 20-year high.

Launch of Hyde Park Discovery between UChicago, Deerfield Management to accelerate research into life-saving treatments

More than three years after his conviction on sweeping gang racketeering charges, reputed Four Corner Hustlers boss Labar Spann will get a new trial after a surprise disclosure showed a prosecutor had promised a star witness less time in prison than what was told to the jury.

President Trump said he told King Abdullah II of Jordan during a phone call Saturday that he would like Jordan and Egypt to take in more Palestinians from Gaza, an idea that is likely to reignite debate about the future of nearly two million Palestinians.

The Latent Fingerprint Unit of D.C.’s long-troubled crime lab regained its accreditation, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Friday.

The Department of Forensic Sciences lost its accreditation in 2021 over concerns of mishandling evidence and overall lab practices.

D.C.'s crime lab is once again fully accredited. Since 2021, the lab was not cleared to analyze evidence like DNA, firearms and fingerprints. WASHINGTON - D.C.s Department of Forensic Science is fully accredited again after losing its accreditation in 2021.

DNA analysis indicated remains found in late September match a jawbone found in the same area in 2022 that was matched to a missing Elmira man.

Shahzad, who works for the Nature Conservancy, said he spent almost every free moment last year looking for birds. The 27-year-old ended up logging 294 birds, a new record for Cook County, which is a hot spot for bird-watching in the Midwest.

Two persons of interest have been taken into custody for questioning in connection to a murder that has rattled neighbors in Norwood Park, according to Chicago police.