Information about homicides is released daily by the city of Chicago. The release of homicide victims’ names is delayed by ...

A new report from the Council on Criminal Justice shows most major crime categories in Chicago are down below pre-pandemic ...

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

Chicago is seeing a historic drop in violent crime in the first half of the year. According to the Chicago Police Department, homicides and shootings are both down more than 30% in the first six ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson touted new crime numbers for July. On Tuesday, the mayor said there continues to be a downward trend in shooting deaths, shooting victims, and violent ...

Pritzker acknowledged there is no one reason Chicago's homicide rate is down 3% from last year, shootings down 40%, and ...

On this episode of "Paris on Politics," Illinois Senator Dick Durbin expresses concern, stating there's something that smells very fishy about the Department of Justice's secretive meeting last week ...

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 ...

After chipping away at a persistently low homicide clearance rate, the number of murders solved by Chicago police has dropped in 2020, department officials said Monday. The drop — from 50.3% … ...

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 data shows.

Chicago’s homicide victims in 2025 are often young, Black and male. Most homicide victims in Chicago died as the result of gunshot wounds. Sources: City of Chicago; Tribune reporting and archives ...