A Chicago non-profit received $25 million in funding Thursday to lead a previously discontinued violence-prevention program ...

The program, which focuses on mentoring and therapy, relies on the idea that most violent crimes are emotional, not rational.

CHICAGO — A second man accused in the fatal shooting of two Chicago high school students in the Loop last year is now facing felony charges. Chicago police said 20-year-old James Allison, a ...

“It will be interesting to hear people give their thoughts on how well this worked,” Bae, an assistant instructional professor with the University of Chicago, told Block Club shortly before the map ...

Students, faculty, community members and protesters at an encampment at Deering Meadow at Northwestern University in April 2024. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times file Share Northwestern ...

Gun violence goes down as a result of that. My research center, the University of Chicago Crime Lab, we did a randomized trial with the City of New York a couple years ago where we helped put ...

Over 100 years ago, Georgiana Simpson became the first Black woman to attain a Ph.D. at an American university, making history not just on the University of Chicago campus ... Sam Light’s lab to learn ...

We got an exclusive look inside the Drug Enforcement Administration's lab in Chicago where those street drugs are being tested every day. From the streets of Green Bay just a few weeks ago to the ...

The University of Chicago Crime Lab completed a similar analysis in 2021 that showed deployment levels decline during the weekend overnight time periods when shootings are most common. However ...

with a high-tech research facility that would give a massive economic boost to the city of Chicago. The University of Illinois would operate the proposed $285 million facility, dubbed the ...