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CHICAGO — The ShotSpotter gunshot detection system could get another chance to stick around in Chicago as aldermen try to wrest control over the technology’s future from Mayor Brandon Johnson. Aldermen on Monday advanced an ordinance to give the City Council final say over violence prevention funding efforts removed by the mayor, such as ShotSpotter. The effort revives the contentious fight ...

Nine people were shot in two shootings Sunday in the Austin neighborhood.

CHICAGO — An investigation is underway after a man was critically injured by a driver who police say fled from a traffic stop on the South Side on Friday afternoon. According to police, it unfolded just after 3:15 p.m. in the 700 block of West 87th Street in Auburn Gresham. CPD officials say officers in […]

A 41-year-old man was sitting in his home when he was gunned down in Auburn Gresham. He has since died from his injuries.

A City Council committee will consider an ordinance Monday that could let individual alderpersons decide whether to continue ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology in their wards.

CHICAGO — A 16-year-old has been charged in connection with a shooting and car crash that injured four people and a newborn Saturday. Police announced Monday that the teen is facing multiple felony charges including attempted first degree murder. The teen was arrested Sunday and is accused of beating a 22-year-old woman then shooting into […]

The life-size sculpture, titled Thou Shalt Not Kill, shows a hooded victim of gun violence face down on the ground, bullet holes etched into his back, while Jesus weeps over him.

Six people were wounded in a shooting and car crash in Chicago's Auburn Gresham neighborhood Saturday afternoon that left four of the victims, including a...

About 12:15 p.m., four adults and the newborn were in a vehicle in the 7900 block of South Wood Street when someone began firing at them, hitting two people in the car, according to the Chicago police.

A gun-toting male demanded property from a victim who was trying to use a Chicago ATM on Friday morning — but the victim turned out to be a concealed carrier, and he fatally shot the would-be robber.What are the details?Chicago police said a 60-year-old man before 5:30 a.m. was at an ATM in the 1500...