Cook County invests $25M in initiatives to reduce gun violence, with funds aiding at-risk individuals and survivors through ...

Chicagoans who study and work on anti-violence initiatives share the strategies they’re using to keep homicides and shootings on a downward trajectory.

CHICAGO - Twenty-five million dollars in grants will help children who have survived gun violence, families who have been ...

More American children and teens die from firearms than any other cause, but there are more deaths — and wider racial disparities — in states with more permissive gun policies, according to a new ...

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 ...

The Scaling Community Violence Intervention for a Safer Chicago (SC2) program, which began in February 2024, has resulted in ...

Is ShotSpotter helping catch killers? Cleveland has spent $2.8 million on the tool, and there is growing evidence that it is ...

Seven people were killed and 37 others were shot in Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend, with a 16-year-old girl becoming ...

At least 50 people have been shot, six fatally, in gun violence across the city so far this Fourth of July weekend, Chicago police said. ABC7 is tracking holiday weekend shootings from the morning of ...

Texas has banned red-flag laws that allow guns to be temporarily taken from people in crisis and made it easier to own sawed-off shotguns.

Chicago experienced a rash of shootings as summer began, resulting in one fatality and nine injuries across various neighborhoods, including Englewood. No arrests have been made.

For decades, conservatives and liberals have fiercely debated what drives the nation's gun violence epidemic. A new book called "Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence ...