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recorded in 2025 according to multiple city and local media tallies, a sharp year‑over‑year decline that city officials and analysts flagged as the lowest in decades . That count translates to roughly...
Chicago’s overall violent crime picture fluctuated from 2015–2024: homicides rose sharply in 2015 (468 murders) and remained elevated through the early 2020s, peaking around 2021 before declining to 5...
Chicago recorded roughly and ranks among the highest-large-city totals in that year, but per-capita rankings differ: Chicago’s is far above New York and Los Angeles while lower than smaller cities lik...
’s for calendar year 2024 is reported differently across outlets, but the city’s own summary and mainstream local reports put the count at roughly the mid‑500s — about 572 homicides in 2024 versus rou...
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 violent crime has fallen substantially in 2025 by several measures: an Axios review cited by the City says overall violent crime dropped 22.1% through the first nine months of 2025, and the ...
Chicago’s violent-crime levels from 2020–2025 show a mixed picture: year-to-year declines in homicides and shootings alongside persistent violent-crime rates that, by some FBI-derived comparisons in 2...
Chicago’s violent‑crime picture shifted markedly from 2015–2024: homicides and shootings trended upward into the pandemic years (peaking around 2020–2021) and then fell through 2022–2024, while aggrav...
Chicago’s official year-end homicide count for 2023 reported by the Chicago Police Department and widely cited in local reporting was 617 homicides (down from 709 in 2022), with police-data tallies of...
President Donald Trump was reported to have said “4,000 people murdered” in Chicago “over a very short period of time” during an October 2025 appearance; contemporary news accounts flag that figure as...
Chicago’s safety profile is mixed: , even as citywide violent crime and homicides fell substantially in 2025 compared with 2024. Visitors who stay in central tourist areas generally face lower risk, w...
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...
’s homicides plunged in 2025 to roughly 416 reported killings — the fewest in decades — and early 2026 data show the decline continuing, with January homicides down year‑over‑year (29 in January per C...
Evidence is mixed: several randomized and quasi‑experimental studies find body‑worn cameras (BWCs) reduce overall use‑of‑force and complaints—one Crime Lab paper reports a near 10% drop in use‑of‑forc...
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...
Chicago’s homicide rate declined modestly in 2023 and 2024 amid a mix of policing, city-led task forces, and community-violence initiatives, but the causal links between specific tactics and the decli...
Chicago’s available public summaries through 2024–early 2025 document , including homicides, shootings and many robbery measures, but the materials supplied do not provide a comprehensive, neighborhoo...