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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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...