Murders fall 42 percent in Chicago
CHICAGO - Three months after Chicago notched the most murders in the nation, officials are touting a dramatic downturn in crime...
For Chicago parents, Jonylah Watkins’ funeral a cautionary tale
theGRIO REPORT - Six-month-old Jonylah Watkins laid lifeless in a pink dress as her parents saw her 3-foot casket close Tuesday saying 'goodbye' for the last time...
Are gangs a bigger threat than guns in Chicago?
theGRIO REPORT - This year, Chicago received national attention because if its violence issue, a problem that along with other undesirable traditions, has plagued the city for years...
Chicago: Obama expected to talk gun violence
theGRIO REPORT - As President Barack Obama returns home to Chicago Friday, many residents are coming off of an emotionally charged re-awakening of the violence issue plaguing the city’s streets...
Prosecutor: Chicago gang war led to Hadiya Pendelton's death
CHICAGO (AP) - Two men circled a park on Chicago's South Side looking for members of a rival gang before one crept up on a group seeking shelter from the rain under a canopy and opened fire, striking a 15-year-old honor student who once made a video protesting gang violence, prosecutors said Tuesday...
Violence, gangs scar Chicago community in 2012
CHICAGO (AP) - These three violent snapshots of a single Chicago street are not exceptional. It's been a bloody year in the nation's third-largest city...
In Newtown’s shadow, Chicago’s bleak gun toll goes on
NBC NEWS - The cost of gun violence is astonishingly high in Chicago, calculated in both deaths and bullet- battered communities, but also dollars...
Chicago cops increase security at gang funerals
NBC CHICAGO - Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Wednesday the police will start treating funerals of reputed gang members as "gang events." That means increased police presence at funerals as well as searches and pat-downs outside churches and funeral homes.
Rick Ross cancels NC show due to death threats
theGRIO REPORT - Rapper Rick Ross has canceled his show this weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, allegedly due to threats made by gang members in the area...
Street gangs hit Native American reservations
theGRIO REPORT - Native Americans live in some of the most extreme cases of rural poverty in the world and in recent years have encountered many of the same issues plaguing some of the country’s largest urban centers...
