Earlier this week, the Department of Homeland Security announced that the scores of federal agents deployed in and around Chicago the last several weeks were responsible for a “historic drop in crime” ...

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 ...

A spatial analysis of crime in Chicago suggests that certain environmental and socioeconomic factors, such as building density, are linked with crime rates, but these relationships differ between ...

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