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Chicago experienced a significant decline in violent crime rates in 2025, with a high homicide clearance rate, making it one of the cities with notable progress in crime reduction.
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...
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...