An unidentified man, 32, was pulled from a burning home early Wednesday in the 7100 block of South Rhodes Avenue, Chicago ...

Conventional wisdom about violence is wrong, Jens Ludwig, director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, says in ...

Police said the man moved toward officers while holding a knife. The shooting occurred at the Grand Regency of Jackson Park ...

A man was killed after an apartment fire in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood Wednesday morning, Chicago police said.

A man died in a Chicago apartment fire caused by unattended cooking; the building had no working smoke alarms. Firefighters ...

For decades, conservatives and liberals have fiercely debated what drives the nation’s gun violence epidemic. But a new book ...

University of Chicago behavioral economist Jens Ludwig says social intervention is an important factor in reducing violence ...

Tourism agencies in both cities recently distributed information to their members, outlining the decline, which appears to be ...

An economist at the University of Chicago argues that some of our basic views about gun violence are incorrect and that some ...

Jens Ludwig, director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, is the author of the forthcoming book “Unforgiving Places: The ...