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Mar 12, 2024 · CHICAGO (March 12, 2024) – The number of violent crimes grew to its highest level in a decade last year, but the arrest rate dropped, according to a new analysis from the Illinois Policy Institute....
Most accurate 2021 crime rates for Chicago, IL. Your chance of being a victim of violent crime in Chicago is 1 in 186 and property crime is 1 in 31. Compare Chicago crime data to other cities, states, and neighborhoods in the U.S. on NeighborhoodScout.
For example, in 2023, the homicide rate in Chicago (one of the most segregated cities in the country) was 20 times higher for Black residents than it was for white residents. The good news: Year-to-date, homicides have decreased 12%, and shootings are down 14% percent.
Jun 16, 2021 · A recent New York Times quiz revealed some common misperceptions about crime trends, the most widely held of which involved Chicago. Readers were asked to rank Chicago nationally in murder...
- A Former Chicago Gang Member's Second Chance and The Man Who Made It Possible
- Social Media's Stark Effect on Violence in Chicago
- Longstanding Impact of Disinvestment in Communities
- The Debate Over Illinois' Pursuit For Criminal Justice Reform
- Young Chicagoans Share Heartbreak, Frustration of Growing Up with Violence
- How Crime Guns Are Traced in The Us: One Page at A Time
- Feds Willing to Bring Parallel Charges in Push to Target Illegal Guns
- Where Police Recover The Most Guns in Chicago
- As Children Die in Chicago, Some Ask: Where Is The Outrage?
Jermaine Rhodes never saw a better option. His relatives were gang members, so naturally, he became involved, too. "I started selling drugs in school at first," the Chicago resident explained. "Then, I moved to the corner around 14 or 15. And from there life got kind of good for a while. You get all the money, all the girls, all the clout, you get ...
While Chicago's violence is still driven by a combination of gangs, guns and drugs, it's also being fueled by social media. Lance Williams, a professor at Northeastern University, said it "kind of puts conflict on steroids." "Social media exacerbates the problem, because what it does is expands the platform for interpersonal beef," said Williams, o...
One Chicago community advocate remembers West Woodlawn as it was in the 1950s and 60s - a vibrant and bustling community. Siri Hibbler, the CEO of the Garfield Park Chamber of Commerce, paints a similar picture of 1970s East Garfield Park. “We had we had bowling alleys, skating rinks,” she said. “Everything that a kid wanted to do, they could do in...
Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a "landmark" criminal justice and police reforms bill into law earlier this year, bringing an end to cash bail in Illinois and implementing new "police accountability" protocols. But how will the reforms effect Chicago’s longstanding violence problem – if at all? Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx has called the changes...
For some Chicago teens, gunfire has claimed the lives of friends, family members and so much of their youth. NBC 5's Stefan Holt sat down with a group of young men who grew up in Englewood for their perspective on the city's violence epidemic and what needs to be done.
The process of tracing every single firearm used in a crime in the U.S. goes through a facility in West Virginia that houses millions of paper records of gun sales – so many that shipping containers were brought in for storage over concerns the floor might collapse – that staff page through one at a time as they trace thousands of guns each day, al...
Federal authorities in Chicago are targeting gun traffickers with a “strike force” unveiled earlier this year – and they say they’re willing to supersede local decisions with additional federal charges if they believe it’s warranted. “If you look at the violent crime going on in Chicago, we have a shooting cycle to disrupt,” said Kristen de Tineo, ...
Chicago police are on track to recover over 12,000 guns this year, a record high and more than New York City and Los Angeles combined. But those numbers look very different depending on where you are in the city. And even as more guns have been taken off the streets, shootings have continued to rise compared to last year. Data provided by Chicago p...
Annette Freeman will never forget where she was October 13, 1992. It was a day that changed her life and shook Chicago in profound ways. "I will never forget it was Tuesday and they had just gone back to school, it was the first day back," she said. "He was like, 'I don't want to go to school today,' and I said, 'You know you don't miss school!'" S...
Jan 3, 2022 · Chicago’s bloodshed was largely confined to just a handful of neighborhoods — 10 of the city’s 77 community areas accounted for more than half of all homicides citywide.
Oct 29, 2021 · Stepped-up efforts announced by the Chicago Police Department and City Hall haven’t kept violent crime from rising in the downtown area, according to a Chicago Sun-Times analysis of data from 16 beats in the Central, Near North and Near West police districts.
