Listen to more stories on the Noa app. This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. On a mild spring night in Chicago, a woman told her 18-year-old ...

President Donald Trump has threatened for weeks to send National Guard troops to Chicago, claiming crime has transformed the city into a "killing field." However, Chicago Police data shows violent ...

Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of a two-part series on crime solutions from Katie Hill and Jens Ludwig of the University of Chicago Crime Lab. The overheated political moment we’re in has led people to ...

Organized crime in America is fairly fixed in its geographical associations, not counting the Corleones of Long Island. Chicago has The Outfit. New England the Patriarcas. New York the fabled Five ...

President Donald Trump mocked local officials last month, calling Chicago a “war zone” after they touted a drop in crime that brought the safest summer the city had seen since 1965. Now, his ...