“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 ...

An Illinois daycare employee has been charged with child endangerment for allegedly placing a 4-year-old boy in a freezing alley and a trash can as punishment.

A new analysis from the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab pinpoints where and when violent crime primarily occurs in the city — down to the hour and 1,000-by-1,000-foot block. The new numbers ...