Homicides

Philadelphia is more unsafe than it “should” be, based on its population. Matt Slocum/AP Images by Rayan Succar, New York University and Maurizio Porfiri, New York...

Medical Examiner’s Office Releases Preliminary 2022 Data The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office is releasing preliminary statistics for cases it handled in 2022. The Office’s...

Chicago police say 2014 has gotten off to a markedly less bloody start than recent years in the Windy City, though they admit that...

CHICAGO (AP) — Following a year when Chicago led the nation in homicides with more than 500, the city's Police Department said Wednesday that...

  While the majority of cities had goose eggs for murder counts in the FBI's newly-released crime statistics for 2012, Chicago stood out...

The recent bloody headlines out of Chicago relayed the sad tale of the city's deadly weekend, where seven people were killed in shootings and more than 50 were victims of gunfire. Thanks in part to news coverage, America's third largest city has become synonymous with runaway gun violence, and especially deadly weekend shootouts. Sadly, that type ...

            In the hours after Chicago's homicide count for this year passed its total for all of 2011, more...