Watch FRONTLINE’s The Interrupters, a film about Chicago’s gang violence through the eyes ... 20s — shot by their peers in gang-related incidents. Most victims and their killers had a ...

CHICAGO — Seven people, including four men killed in a gang-retaliation attack at a fast-food restaurant and a pregnant woman found with a gunshot wound to the head, were gunned down Thursday in ...

The Windy City saw 3,550 shooting incidents and 762 murders ... Cohen suggested several steps for Chicago to get a handle on the gang violence: First, he said, the police must identify and ...

Shooting incidents have more than ... risen by about 60 percent in St. Louis. In Chicago, gang conflicts have long been fueling much of the gun violence. Police blame battles over turf and ...

A study done in 2002 on mass public shootings excluded incidents of gang activity and drug dealing. That is the motive behind most of Chicago's gun violence. 1 While weekend shootings gain ...

Steve Inskeep talks to Steve Gates of Youth Advocate Programs, a lifelong resident of one of Chicago's most violent neighborhoods, about the changing nature and daily experience of violence there.

Sunday`s uprising at Stateville Correctional Center, the second violent incident at the prison in two days, was instigated by inmates from a Chicago ... the two gang-related incidents, Peters ...

The rise in violence comes after the Chicago Police Department reported ... he was concerned about social media fueling gang disputes, with fatal incidents starting as a war of words on the ...

Chicago police are releasing more details ... which they described as "gang violence"-related. "Out of an abundance of caution, the Cinco De Mayo parade has been canceled to protect the safety ...

Since Jan. 1, Chicago police have recorded 2,364 shooting incidents and 487 homicides ... a sprawling city long associated with gang violence. “The gun violence problem in America gets a ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago police routinely monitor the funerals of known gang members as part of an anti-violence effort following ... of violent funeral-related incidents. So many gang funerals ...

Violent tension between biker gangs in Chicago, Illinois ... leading to various alleged acts of provocation and occasional violence. David Santillan, who served as president of the Mongols ...