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 ...

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

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

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 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, ...

After years of reeling from violent crime and homicide epidemic in Chicago, murders in the city fell by about 100 in 2018, while the figure still remains higher than the number of homicides in Los ...

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.

Cities such as Champaign, Rockford and Peoria have seen homicide rates per 100,000 residents surge in recent years, close to or surpassing Chicago’s levels.