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Chicago officials and community members are grieving the loss of 11-year-old Jayden Perkins who police say was fatally stabbed while trying "to protect his mother" in a domestic violence incident.
Can a club shut down following a shooting that takes a life reopen gradually months later this time as a BYOB “restaurant”?
Chicago city youth program aims to prevent violence 02:25. CHICAGO (CBS) -- Young people are engaging their communities to prevent violence in a brand-new City of Chicago program.
Chicago leaders have no real plan to deal with youth violence downtown ... The now-notorious violent youth riot in downtown Chicago last weekend got me thinking of a press conference way back in 2010.
Chicago's proposed "snap curfew" ordinance, which would allow Chicago police to impose a youth curfew anywhere in the city on as little as 30 minutes' notice, is back in the spotlight at City Hall.
Violence in Chicago has changed. An outreach group explains why and what needs to be done As Chicago stares down the Fourth of July holiday weekend, with 11 people killed as of Friday afternoon ...
Attendees had gathered to celebrate the release of an album by Chicago drill rapper Mello Buckzz, whose legal name is Melanie Doyle. The medical examiner’s office last week identified the four dead as ...
Dr. Ken Wilson, a trauma surgeon at University of Chicago Medicine and a POP volunteer, ... Doctors McGee and Wilson said the impact of violence on youth today makes the work POP does life-saving.
Since June 20, five kids under the age of 11 were shot and killed in Chicago, the Gun Violence Archive found, a research group that catalogs gun-related cases in the U.S.
Chicago School for the Arts students remember those who have died of gun violence on Thursday, May 30, 2013. Photo: Alex Garcia/Chicago Tribune Last week, Catherine Humikowski, the medical ...
In Chicago, Youth Violence Prompts Clampdown. 22 Students Slain So Far This Year; City's Public Schools Get Security Cameras and Extra Police. By Kari Lydersen. April 1, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. EDT.
It's part of a growing body of evidence that this type of therapy can be a powerful tool to reduce violence. On the east coast, another program using CBT called Roca, has seen similar results: In ...