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CHICAGO — With one month left in the year, Chicago is on track to have the lowest number of annual murders in more than a decade. Newly released crime numbers show 390 people were murdered through the ...

A Cook County jury has convicted a man in the 2021 execution-style murder of 71-year-old Woom Sing Tse in the Chinatown neighborhood in Chicago. Alphonso Joyner, 27, was found guilty of first-degree ...

Violent crime in Chicago continues to decline significantly so far in 2025, police data shows. The declines reflect a broader national trend of falling violent crime. Still, Mayor Brandon Johnson ...