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Human settlement in Cook County, Illinois, United States of America
City and research data show violent crime in Chicago is concentrated in a set of South and West Side neighborhoods; community areas like Englewood, West Garfield Park and Austin repeatedly appear amon...
Chicago’s most crime-prone neighborhoods in 2025 are consistently identified across multiple reviews as , though exact ordering varies by source and metric. Published lists and datasets from February ...
and emerge in independent analyses as the community areas with the highest measured during the October 2024–October 2025 window and multi‑year averages respectively, while other South and West Side ne...
Multiple 2025 analyses converge on a consistent set of neighborhoods——as among Chicago’s most crime-prone, but official city summaries report citywide declines in violent and total crime through mid‑2...
City- and third‑party reporting shows violent crime in Chicago is highly concentrated in specific community areas rather than evenly spread across the city; multiple lists and datasets repeatedly flag...
Chicago’s anti-violence response centers on a mix of models, city-led violence-reduction tactics, and nonprofit-run workforce and therapeutic programs that target high-risk individuals and hot-spot ne...
Multiple 2025 lists and local reports identify , and other South and West Side neighborhoods as the highest-concentration violence hotspots in Chicago. Recent intervention funding and community progra...