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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...
Available reporting and public dashboards show widely varying totals for Chicago-area spending tied to migrants and undocumented immigrants since 2020: municipal vendor-contract counts exceed $600 mil...
Available reporting shows that 2024 homicide rankings vary by data set and city-size threshold: several sources name Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, Baltimore and Birmingham among the highest‑rate U.S. c...
Multiple analyses in the provided materials conclude that a substantial list of U.S. cities reported , but the exact list varies sharply across sources. The Newsweek-derived list identifies 22 cities ...
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...
The various analyses disagree on a single definitive top-five list for U.S. cities with the highest per-capita homicide rates in 2024, but two clusters emerge: one grouping that lists , and another th...
Chicago’s homicide count fell in 2023 but its per‑capita murder rate remained high among large U.S. cities: the city recorded roughly 617 homicides in 2023 and, by several widely used measures, a homi...
Multiple organizations compile 2024 city-level homicide rates using three main data inputs: local police department incident counts, the FBI’s national reporting systems (UCR/SHR and, increasingly, NI...
Available reporting shows no single definitive total labelled “Chicago spent on illegal immigrants since 2020,” but multiple outlets and data portals place city vendor payments and combined city/state...
Claims that “Chicago has the highest murder rate among U.S. cities” are contested in recent reporting and depend entirely on which dataset, city sample and population cutoffs are used: some analyses o...
Chicago recorded one of the highest total homicide counts and the highest homicide rate among the nation’s large cities in 2024, with Wirepoints reporting , substantially higher than reported rates fo...