Details about homicides is launched each day by the town of Chicago. The discharge of murder victims’ names is delayed by two weeks to permit time for the victims’ households to be notified of a dying by Chicago police.
The murder figures don’t embrace killings that occurred in self-defense or in different circumstances not measured in Chicago police statistics. Murder knowledge from the Illinois State Police, which patrols the town’s expressways, additionally just isn’t included right here.
After a two-year spike throughout the pandemic and nationwide outrage over police accountability, Chicago started to see a decline in homicides in 2022. Murder and nonfatal capturing totals fell once more in 2023, however the metropolis was roiled by theft and carjacking crews liable for an general uptick in violence.
Information, which is up to date on this web page weekly, is thru Oct. 26, 2024.
The variety of folks slain to this point in 2024: 494.
That’s 23 fewer folks killed when put next with 2023.
Austin leads all neighborhood areas with probably the most homicides to this point in 2024 — 45.
The place every murder has occurred to this point in 2024 (by Oct. 26)
Sources: Metropolis of Chicago, Tribune reporting
Chicago’s murder victims in 2024 are sometimes younger, Black and male.
Most murder victims in Chicago died as the results of gunshot wounds.
Sources: Metropolis of Chicago; Tribune reporting and archives
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