Violent crime can hurt job opportunities in high-poverty neighborhoods
Violent crime can hurt job opportunities in high-poverty neighborhoods
Policymakers can create conditions to help businesses and residents succeed.
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Police union contracts hinder discipline in Illinois’ biggest cities
How Illinois’ collective bargaining rules protect police misconduct
Illinois red-light cameras have collected more than $1B from drivers since 2008
Asset forfeiture in Illinois: What it is, where it happens, and reforms the state needs
Majority of Illinoisans support criminal-justice reform
Everything Illinoisans should know about the SAFE-T Act
Everything Illinoisans should know about the SAFE-T Act
The omnibus criminal justice reform bill became highly politicized, mixing fact and fiction. Here is where it stands.
What to know about flock cameras in Illinois
What to know about flock cameras in Illinois
Many want better safeguards in the use of the law enforcement tool.
See which Chicago CTA stations have the highest crime rates
See which Chicago CTA stations have the highest crime rates
Cicero on the Blue Line had the highest rate in the city.
Three things to know three years later about the end of cash bail in Chicago
Three things to know three years later about the end of cash bail in Chicago
Reforms could diminish the risk of new crimes committed on pretrial release.
Paul Vallas: Making the SAFE-T Act safe
Paul Vallas: Making the SAFE-T Act safe
The well-intentioned law must be adjusted to deny pretrial release to repeat violent offenders and those suspected of violent crimes.
Chicago homicides lowest in more than 10 years
Chicago homicides lowest in more than 10 years
The number in the year ended in May was the fewest since 2014.
July 4: Illinois 1 of only 3 states that bans fireworks
July 4: Illinois 1 of only 3 states that bans fireworks
An outdated state law is meant to prevent injuries, which have significantly decreased, and prevents Illinois from benefiting from an industry worth billions of dollars.
Vallas: In police misconduct mess, trial lawyers holding taxpayers hostage
Vallas: In police misconduct mess, trial lawyers holding taxpayers hostage
Kim Foxx’s policy of issuing mass exonerations without case-by-case scrutiny has invited a flood of costly litigation.
Chicago violent crime at decade low as arrest rates rise
Chicago violent crime at decade low as arrest rates rise
Violent crime in Chicago fell to more than a decade low in 2025. It dropped across 88% of the city’s neighborhoods as arrests rose.
Chicago ranks among America’s least safe cities
Chicago ranks among America’s least safe cities
While Aurora sits near the top of the safety rankings, Chicago lands near the bottom undermining claims by Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson.
CTA violent crime nears decade high as feds threaten funding cuts
CTA violent crime nears decade high as feds threaten funding cuts
Chicago Transit Authority violent crime hit its second-highest level since 2015, while the arrest rate dropped. CTA crime is threatening federal funding.