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

The Lake County Coroner's Office investigated 65 homicides in 2024, it said, a 12% decrease from the 74 in 2023 and a 35% ...

Chicago saw eight homicides in the first six days of 2025, and another 28 people suffered nonfatal gunshot wounds.

"If they are going to prove this isn't self-defense," defense attorney Brandon Hicks said, "they should be able to tell who shot first in the confrontation." ...

Use the table below to look up how the number of gang crimes reported in your neighborhood compared to the rest of the city.

With 2024 winding down to a close, homicides across the United States are poised to plummet for the third straight year.

IDPH launches a new dashboard for tracking firearm violence and deaths by county to inform prevention efforts in Illinois.

Programs partly funded by the flow of opioid settlement cash are beginning to turn the tide, experts and preliminary data ...

New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Houston, Detroit, Baltimore and dozens of other cities have reported ...

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 ...

Then 2024 was the third consecutive year of decreasing homicides in Chicago. Data, which is updated on this page weekly, is through Jan. 5, 2025. The number of people slain so far in 2025: 8.

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 ...