The Chicago City Council and Mayor Brandon Johnson approved a resolution on Wednesday calling for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza as crime runs rampant throughout the Windy City.
CHICAGO — A Chicago drill rapper previously charged in a high-profile 2017 quadruple murder case that was eventually dropped has been ordered held without bond on new federal gun charges alleging he threw a loaded, fully automatic pistol out a window during a police raid on Friday. Maurice Harris, 26, who goes by the moniker “Drench,” was charged in a criminal complaint made public Monday with .
After more than 770 homicides were recorded in Chicago in 2016, then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration pressed Illinois lawmakers to pass a measure that would increase minimum prison sentences for repeat gun possession offenders. The law that legislators ultimately approved took effect in 2018, and was a rare bit of policy common ground for Emanuel and Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner. But in .
On each Sunday in July, the Tribune’s Opinion section has published original essays dealing with a problem that takes so much of our attention 12 months of the year: the scourge of gun violence in Chicago. We hardly needed to reiterate the consequences of the status quo: Gun violence undermines Chicagoans’ sense of personal safety and traumatizes the city’s most vulnerable citizens, it hurts .
Violence in two Chicago neighborhoods erupted early Monday as Pride celebrations were wrapping up, when three separate incidents left several people hurt and in.