John Jones, Fayetteville's first Office of Community Safety director, sat down with the Observer to talk about his goals for ...

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 ...

While city staff said the program had been a long time coming, the vote eerily came on the same night that a 14-year-old boy was injured in a shooting in ...

Youth organizers expressed gratitude for Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago alderpersons who listened to young people.

IMPD Chief Chris Bailey appeared in a video post Friday afternoon on X, once again calling for parents to step up.

Amid a holiday crime spike in Jackson, residents say the violence isn’t everywhere — just in certain parts of the city.

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.

4 killed, 14 hurt in Chicago mass shooting: 'Absolute chaos' Two men and two women were killed, all in their 20s, police said.

At least four people were killed and more than a dozen others injured in a Wednesday night mass shooting outside a nightclub in Chicago’s River North neighborhood.

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 ...