Overall, violent crime in Chicago is down 23% compared to last year. Robberies are down 35% year to date. Motor vehicle thefts are down 23% year to date and burglaries are down 20% year to date.

Defending Chicago in a recent Fox News interview, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said it was “not in the top 30” of “big cities” with the highest rates of murder. But in 2024, Chicago had the 15th highest ...

A recent survey from security company SafeWise pegs Chicago as the No. 1 metropolitan area for parcel theft, based on the ...

President Donald Trump has threatened for weeks to send National Guard troops to Chicago, claiming crime has transformed the city into a "killing field." However, Chicago Police data shows violent ...

Chicago is on track to have the lowest number of annual murders in more than a decade, with 390 people murdered through the ...

Fox News anchor Bret Baier confronted Gov. JB Pritzker, D-Ill., over Chicago’s murder rate on Wednesday. During an exclusive Fox News Channel interview, Baier and Pritzker clashed over the murder rate ...

Vice President JD Vance slammed Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Sunday, saying he should "suffer some consequences" for his handling of Chicago’s high crime rate. "I think that Governor Pritzker has ...

President Donald Trump mocked local officials last month, calling Chicago a “war zone” after they touted a drop in crime that brought the safest summer the city had seen since 1965. Now, his ...