John Jones, Fayetteville's first Office of Community Safety director, sat down with the Observer to talk about his goals for the newly formed office.

A shooting that left a 9-year-old girl dead and 10 other people injured in Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood is the ninth mass shooting in the area this year.

The Chicago City Council passed a “snap” curfew ordinance on June 18 that allows the superintendent to impose short-notice ...

Youth-based violence occurs when people between the ages of 10 to 24 intentionally use physical force or power to threaten or ...

In Chicago, cognitive behavioral therapy shows promise curbing youth violence By Meg Anderson Published February 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM PST Listen • 4:18 ...

ABC7 Chicago takes an in-depth look at gun violence in Chicago and its suburbs in the two-part special airing on Friday, August 5.

Chicago youth group Good Kids Mad City hosted a mayoral forum Wednesday to discuss issues important to the city’s younger population on the South and West sides, including how to stop gun violence.

One of the many tragic side effects of the pandemic was a dramatic spike in domestic and gender-based violence. According to a recent report, a statewide domestic violence hotline received more tha… ...

The last few years have not been easy for Black and Latinx Chicago youth. School closings, police violence, the COVID-19 pandemic and continued divestment of neighborhoods have only compounded ...

In the Englewood neighborhood on Chicago's south side, nearly 100 people were shot last year, and many of the young people living there will tell you the violence weighs on them. "It affect me as ...