Updated December 14, 2024 by the ABC7 Data Team
Updated December 14, 2024 by the ABC7 Data Team

ABC7 is tracking crime and safety across the city of Chicago and in your neighborhood.

You can choose which crime to explore:

Homicides
579

Last 12 months
Through December 06

Average Homicides
718

Yearly average
2021 to 2023

Homicide Rate
21.7

Per 100,000 people
Last 12 months

Average Homicide Rate
27

Per 100,000 people
2021 to 2023


Homicides over the last 12 months are trending down 7.5% compared to 2023, according to Chicago Police Department data through December 06.

However, the murder rate over the last 12 months is down compared to the annual average over the last three years, and the frequency of killings remains higher than it was before the pandemic.

The city averaged 11 homicides a week over the last 12 months. In 2019, that number was 10 a week.

One way to think about the danger: four years ago, the murder rate was 18.7 per 100,000 residents.

That was already considerably higher than the risk of dying in a vehicle crash in Illinois.

During the pandemic, a person’s chance of being murdered in Chicago rose to almost three times the likelihood of dying in a crash.


The risk is not the same neighborhood to neighborhood.

ABC7’s data team looked at the Chicago Police Department’s crime incident data by community area from 2019 through December 06, 2024. Totals here include murders, but not involuntary manslaughter or justifiable homicide.

A closer look at Chicago homicides by neighborhood

The map color codes each neighborhood by the homicide rate over the last 12 months. The three darker blues highlight neighborhoods where the murder rate is higher than the citywide rate.

You can click any neighborhood to see detailed numbers or the buttons at the bottom of the map to switch between numbers and rates. You can search for a street, place, landmark or zip code to zoom to that location.