January To Date
Shot & Killed: 17
Shot & Wounded: 84
Total Shot: 101
Total Homicides: 22
January To Date
Shot & Killed: 17
Shot & Wounded: 84
Total Shot: 101
Total Homicides: 22
Week in Progress (1/21 – 1/27)
Shot & Killed: 3
Shot & Wounded: 19
Total Shot: 22
Total Homicides: 4
Final 2023 Totals (vs 2022)
Shot & Killed: 575 (-14%)
Shot & Wounded: 2502 (-15%)
Total Shot: 3077 (-15%)
Total Homicides: 646 (-12%)
On January 25th, 2013, we launched a questionably named site with the simple idea of illustrating “Chicago values”. To this day, we still have no idea what Chicago values are or what they are supposed to represent. No matter its representation or meaning, it made for a fantastic tagline.
In the past 11 years, we’ve recorded over 7,000 homicides, over 30,000 shot and wounded, hundreds of “death investigations”, thousands of carjackings, and over a billion dollars in CPD overtime all of which have resulted in nearly a million manually entered, stupidity-related data points.
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| Placement | Killed | Wounded |
|---|---|---|
| head | 5 | 4 |
| chest | 2 | 8 |
| back | 1 | 6 |
| face | 1 | 1 |
| leg | 20 | |
| arm | 5 | |
| abdomen | 4 | |
| unknown/other | 10 | 37 |
| As of 1/22/24 |
| N'hood | Homicides | Wounded |
|---|---|---|
| Austin | 1 | 8 |
| Garfield Park | 1 | 7 |
| Grand Crossing | 4 | 4 |
| Roseland | 1 | 5 |
| Englewood | 1 | 4 |
| Little Village | 1 | 4 |
| Auburn Gresham | 1 | 3 |
| Humboldt Park | 3 | |
| Near North Side | 3 | |
| South Chicago | 1 | 2 |
| Chatham | 2 | |
| Grand Boulevard | 2 | |
| Hyde Park | 2 | |
| Near West Side | 1 | 1 |
| New City | 1 | 1 |
| All Others | 6 | 19 |
| As of 1/22/24 |
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| Gender | Killed | Wounded |
|---|---|---|
| Male | 16 | 62 |
| Female | 3 | 7 |
| As of 1/22/24 |
| Race | Victim | Assailant |
|---|---|---|
| Black | 13 | 1 |
| Hispanic | 4 | - |
| White/Other | 2 | - |
| As of 1/22/24 |
| Cause | Homicides | % |
|---|---|---|
| Gunshot | 15 | 78.9% |
| Trauma | 2 | 10.5% |
| Stabbing | 1 | 5.3% |
| Strangulation | 1 | 5.3% |
| As of 1/22/24 |
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| Mayor | Term | Homicides |
|---|---|---|
| Richard J. Daley | 1955-1976 | 10,910 |
| Michael Bilandic | 1976-1979 | 2,408 |
| Jane Byrne | 1979-1983 | 3,202 |
| Harold Washington | 1983-1987 | 3,295 |
| Eugene Sawyer | 1987-1989 | 978 |
| Richard M. Daley | 1989-2011 | 14,653 |
| Rahm Emanuel | 2011-2019 | 4,535 |
| Lori Lightfoot | 2019-2023 | 2,945 |
| Brandon Johnson | 2023- | 426 |
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We compile our own dataset using the following sources: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Homicide Watch Chicago (no longer updated), DNAInfo Chicago (out of business), Chicago Redeye Homicide Tracker (long gone), NBC5 Chicago, Chicago Tribune’s Shooting Tracker (no longer updated) & Homicide Tracker (declared dead), Sun-Times Homicide Tracker, Cook County Medical Examiner, CPD’s Historical Data Set, City of Chicago Data Portal, Chicago Police Department Arrest Record Search, CPD CLEARMAP, Various CPD Dashboards, ISP Expressway Shooting Dashboard, CPD’s Media Major Incident Notifications and the needlessly woke Chicago Violence Reduction Dashboard.
Community areas and neighborhoods are determined by Crimeisdown.com’s most excellent Incident Map or the Chicago Tribune’s Boundaries App.
Editor’s note: All murders are homicides, but not all homicides are murders. We count homicides, whereas the CPD counts murders. A homicide, or a non-fatal shooting, regardless of type or by whom, within the city limits of Chicago counts towards our total metric, including anything on the expressways. CPD-involved, ISP-involved and justifiable homicides all count. Reckless homicides may count if the Medical Examiner rules that the cause of death was a homicide. Suicides do not count. Additional definitions can be found on the Glossary page.
All statistics, metrics, charts, graphs and other visualizations are preliminary based on the data available at the time. All incidents are subject to further analysis or change.
