Coverage of Chicago's lethal crime tends to downplay, or leave out entirely, the fact that the number of homicides here has plummeted since the early 1990s, from a rate of over 30 per 100,000 ...

Chicago homicides, left, and city sticker ticketing rates from 2011-2015. (Homicides map courtesy of The New Republic, sticker tickets map by ProPublica Illinois) ...

There is one map of Chicago. It repeats itself over and over again. ... rates of violent crime, pharmacy closures, COVID-19 cases and deaths, and the list goes on and on. ...

Murders in Chicago have decreased 29% compared with 2021, and most types of other violent crime also continue to fall. A map showing homicides by community area comparing 2024 to 2019. City of ...

As of mid-2024, robbery rates in the U.S. have varied widely across cities, with some urban areas experiencing particularly high levels of this crime.

The Crime Lab data analysts looked at homicide rates by policing district, using current boundary maps for all years. They adjusted for population decrease or increase, and analyzed homicides ...

In Chicago, it isn't just murders and shootings that are up. New data from the FBI shows it is all violent crime. 24/7 Live Chicago & Suburban Cook Co. North Suburbs West Suburbs South Suburbs NW ...

The rate peaked at 4.2 as transit use dropped to a low point in 2021. After three years of partial ridership recovery, the CTA’s violent crime rate for the first half of this year was 3.4.

Look at any map of Chicago measuring crime or poverty, and you’ll see a disheartening picture: The communities with less economic opportunity have more crime. This is not a new revelation ...

A new analysis from the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab pinpoints where and when violent crime primarily occurs in the city — down to the hour and 1,000-by-1,000-foot block.

Still, others try to map crime rates to economic ups and downs. Patterns of drug and alcohol abuse, as far as I can tell, sometimes seem to correlate with crime but often do not.

The rate began creeping up in 2016 as violent crime increased in many city neighborhoods, then soared in 2020 after ridership plummeted upon the pandemic’s arrival. The rate peaked at 4.2 as ...