President Obama may have gotten our troops out of Iraq, but the gunfire in his hometown of Chicago is still earning it a searing nickname coined by young people who live there. On Easter weekend, 45 ...

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Spike Lee appeared on Chicago’s South Side Thursday with parents who have lost children to the city’s gun and gang violence to defend his choice to make a movie about the ...

The teenagers who live among the persistent sirens, screams and gunshots in Briana Lawrence’s Englewood neighborhood have their own name for Chicago: “Chiraq.” The term sums up their feeling that ...

During a memorial service on July 20 in Chicago, Audry Miller mourns granddaughter Shamiya Adams, 11, who was killed by a stray bullet. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) Chicago did suffer 516 ...

Rising rap artist Pohhla is a bit different than a lot of his contemporaries. Whereas some artists may be apprehensive to take a conscious stand in their music, Pohhla feels like it is his ...

Violence in this great American city matures so notoriously that film director Spike Lee now purportedly seeks a new nickname for the Windy City: Chiraq. The name merges Chi-town with Iraq – as if ...

With dozens of shootings in a weekend, the Windy City has earned another, deadlier moniker. Until Obama can get the guns off the streets of his hometown, the bloodshed won’t stop. Special ...