Officials in Manhattan and Chicago touted sharp drops in homicides in the first six months of 2025, compared to the same ...

Information about homicides is released daily by the city of Chicago. The release of homicide victims’ names is delayed by two weeks to allow time for the victims’ families to be notified of a death ...

Leaders from various groups helping disrupt crime met to discuss what has been going on this summer in Chicago, and how to ...

The agency hasn’t released statistics for 2021 yet, but Chicago saw a 60% increase in homicides in 2020 compared to 2019. Change in crimes compared to 2022 by type from Jan. 1 to Mar. 27 Compared to ...

The Crime Lab study found spikes in homicides among the nation’s largest cities are not uncommon, but the spike in homicide rate in Chicago between 2015 and 2016 — an increase of from 478 ...

Chicago's homicide clearance rate – the percentage of cases in which police arrest or identify a suspect – fell from 17.1 in 2017 to 15.4 during the first six months of 2018, the ...

Though Chicago has a reputation as a murder haven, it didn’t have the nation’s highest per-capita (murders per 100,000 people) homicide rate. In 2015. Thirteen large cities – population ...

Chicago’s murder rate is high, and it has risen significantly in the last two years. But the recent rate of killings is not unprecedented: During the mid-1990s, Chicago experienced a higher toll ...

CHICAGO — Chicago’s homicide rate was the most of any city in the United States during 2021 and was the most in the Second City in a quarter-century. >> Read more trending news.

U.S. Murder Rate Declines, But Chicago's Goes Up Steve Inskeep talks to NPR Justice Correspondent Carrie Johnson and Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here, about the jump in the ...

On The Rise: Chicago's Homicide Rate Is Outpacing Last Year's The city is nearing 400 homicides, but the number of people shot is down from last year. Joshua Lott—AFP/Getty Images ...