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Happy Friday, eve! We’ve been talking about the “snap curfew” ordinance for months, but the debate is finally over. Yesterday, a group of pro-“snap curfew” alders fell short in getting the 34 votes ...
The Council fell six votes shy of overriding Johnson’s veto of an ordinance allowing the Chicago police superintendent to ...
Columbia’s Office of Violence Prevention Advisory Committee met Tuesday for the second time, as city leaders and law enforcement work to build collaborative strategies to address violent crime. So far ...
The Scaling Community Violence Intervention for a Safer Chicago (SC2) program, which began in February 2024, has resulted in ...
The recent incidents have sparked conversations about the need for collective action in addressing the violence that affects ...
Can a club shut down following a shooting that takes a life reopen gradually months later this time as a BYOB “restaurant”? The answer in Chicago is a resounding yes, and the cost has been horrific.
River North mass shooting sees 4 killed, 14 wounded after rapper's party The attack happened Wednesday night outside a restaurant as people were leaving an album-release party for Chicago rapper ...
Four people were killed and 14 were injured in a drive-by shooting in Chicago's River North neighborhood July 2, police said. The shooting happened at about 11 p.m. when a dark-colored vehicle ...
Luv City is a West Side non-profit helping teens from all over Chicago get engaged to help reduce violence, by introducing them to media production.
The murder of 11-year-old Jayden Perkins has become an example of how domestic violence victims and their families are left vulnerable by the justice system.
At least 20 people have been shot, three fatally, in shootings across Chicago so far this weekend, police said.
Tere, who arrived in Chicago in 2023, has a pending asylum application. Yet she fears the health care and the sense of normalcy she’s worked so hard to find will disappear as President Donald Trump’s ...