November To Date
Shot & Killed: 11
Shot & Wounded: 43
Total Shot: 54
Total Homicides: 11

Week in Progress (11/3 – 11/9)
Shot & Killed: 10
Shot & Wounded: 30
Total Shot: 40
Total Homicides: 10

Year To Date
Shot & Killed: 475
Shot & Wounded: 2217
Total Shot: 2692
Total Homicides: 534

Out of the Office

Out of the officeWe’ll be out of the office this weekend which means the documenting of the silly decisions will have to wait until Sunday night.

In the meantime, start thinking of how best to disappoint your loved ones this upcoming holiday season with something sarcastic from ShopJackass! – tees, hoodies, posters, mugs and other crap. Plus, Santa Chalkie will be making his annual return soon so you better be good for goodness sake.

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2024 Shot Placement | Chalkie | Chicago

2024 Shot Placement

PlacementKilledWounded
head12283
chest107119
back35196
abdomen29149
face2771
neck2158
side1146
other/unknown1731472
As of 11/4/24
Chicago City Map of Homicides 2024

2024 Homicide Map

N'hoodHomicidesWounded
Austin48157
Englewood33166
Garfield Park27141
North Lawndale22127
South Shore2897
Auburn Gresham3183
Little Village1993
Grand Crossing3868
Humboldt Park1383
Near West Side1476
New City1574
Roseland2166
Chatham1965
West Pullman1655
Chicago Lawn1058
All Others171785
As of 11/4/24
2024 Homicide and Murder Trend | Chicago

2024 Homicide Trend

YearHomicidesWounded
20236122,351
20226792,746
20218013,500
20207413,238
20194872,111
20185492,280
20176422,767
20167463,420
20154712,334
20144182,027

Previous year data is reflective of November’s end totals.

Total Shot Trend 2024 | Chicago

2024 Total Shot Trend

YearKilledWoundedTotalFR%
20244662194266017.5%
20235042180268418.8%
20225662565313118.1%
20216963255395117.6%
20206242975359917.3%
20194161967238317.5%
As of 11/3/24
All years counted through date shown at the bottom of the table. Fatality rate (FR%) is total people fatally shot / total people shot.

T-Shirts, Sweatshirts & Crap

Walkie Talkie ShotSpotterWhen you’re a billion in the hole, which do you cut? $300M for “new neighbors” or $10M for the “walkie-talkie on a stick”? Why the walkie-talkie of course.

Brandon's Bodies 2024

2024 Brandon’s Bodies

DateKilledWounded
9/23 - 11/357

In conjunction with CWB Chicago’s “Brandon’s Bodies” series, the above illustrates Mayor Brandon Johnson’s decision to terminate its relationship with ShotSpotter.

2024 Gender of Victim | Chicago

2024 Gender of Victim

GenderKilledWounded
Male4611848
Female61328
As of 11/1/24
2024 Race of Victim | Chicago

2024 Race of Victim/Assailant

RaceVictimAssailant
Black39941
Hispanic10510
White/Other171
As of 11/1/24
2024 Cause of Death | Chicago

2024 Cause of Death

CauseHomicides%
Gunshot46388.7%
Stabbing234.4%
Trauma234.4%
Auto40.8%
Strangulation20.4%
Arson20.4%
Child Abuse10.2%
Drowning10.2%
Electrocution10.2%
Unknown20.4%
As of 11/1/24

Substack, IG, X & Others

Chicago Mayors' first year in office. We’ve set up a Substack channel where we’ll be posting longer form content that doesn’t necessarily work on the site. Subscribe if you like, or not. We spend most of our social media capital on Twitter/X, however we’ve been more active on Instagram of late and are close to becoming influencers, but only if influencer means having no influence. We’ve also set up a TikTok account so that we can participate in the banning. Plus we have a toehold on a number of smaller, alternative social media platforms to be used primarily as “just-in-case” backups: Odysee, Rumble, Minds and GETTR.

Officer involved shootings | Chicago Police

2024 Police-involved Shootings

YearKilledWounded
202436
Previous Year Totals
202355
2022221
2021913
2020713
201966
2018615
20171112
20161114
2015916
20141728
20131330
2012849
20112337
20101333
20091942
CPD Shot24
CPD Suicides3-

2009-2012 stats account for on duty CPD incidents only. 2013-2024 may include other police forces within Chicago, such as the Illinois State Police, Cook County Sheriff, various 3 lettered state/federal agencies, suburban departments or university police forces. On-duty as well as off-duty incidents are included. Historical data pulled from the Civilian Office of Police Accountability.

Self defense shootings and homicides | Chicago

2024 Self Defense

YearKilledWounded
2024317
Previous Year Totals
2023815
2022916
202157
2020119
201969
2018414
2017138
20161210
201553
As of 10/27/24

Stats do NOT include on/off-duty police or other law enforcement and are not limited to firearm related incidents; fatal stabbings are also included. Previous years’ stats reflect totals for entire year.

HeyJackass! Adjacent

Stack Shack Cards & ComicsIf you’re a PokĂ©mon player or collector, be sure to check out our colleague’s eBay store full of PokĂ©mon cards and lots. If you’re not, tell someone who is. We’re told sportsball cards and comics are on the way as well.

Age of victim | Chicago

2024 Age of Victim

CohortKilledWounded
Kids (0-12)828
Teens (13-17)38216
Young Adults (18-35)2931253
Middle Aged (36-54)147517
AARP (55+)3481
Unknown288
As of 11/1/24
Chicago Multi-victim or mass shootings

2024 Mass Shootings

VictimsIncidentsKilled
11 shot11
8 shot1-
7 shot42
6 shot21
5 shot64
4 shot1410
Hat Trick7034
2 shot26096
As of 11/1/24
Note: The Chicago Police Department defines a mass shooting as three or more shooting victims (non-fatal and fatal) per incident. This definition is based on the Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act of 2012, signed into law in January 2013.

Clearance Rate 2023 | Chicago

2023 Homicide Clearance Rate

Legal OutcomeHomicides%
Total Homicides627100%
No Suspect Charged48076.6%
Suspect Charged11919.0%
Bar to Prosecute193.0%
Death of Offender91.4%
As of 2/8/24

The clearance rate is a calculation of (Total Homicide Suspects Arrested + Bar to Prosecute + Death of Offender)/(Total Homicides – Police involved – Self Defense – Any homicide outside of CPD jurisdiction). Bar to Prosecute – investigators are sure they know who committed the crime but they just can’t convince prosecutors to approve charges. Death of Offender – investigators are sure they know who committed the crime but the alleged criminal dies before charges can be brought.

Chicago Homicides by Year, 1957 - 2019

Homicide Trend (1957-2023)

MayorTermHomicides
Richard J. Daley1955-197610,910
Michael Bilandic1976-19792,408
Jane Byrne1979-19833,202
Harold Washington1983-19873,295
Eugene Sawyer1987-1989978
Richard M. Daley1989-201114,653
Rahm Emanuel2011-20194,535
Lori Lightfoot2019-20232,945
Brandon Johnson2023-548
Note: Lightfoot’s tally is 12p, May 20, 2019 – 11:59a, May 15, 2023. Brandon Johnson’s tally started at 12p, May 15, 2023.

Police Scanner Frequencies

As more and more CPD frequencies move towards encryption, scanners are becoming useless. Check out CrimeIsDown’s Live Audio Feeds to listen to any zone that hasn’t been encrypted (yet) or use the official feeds with a 30+ minute delay on Broadcastify.

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*Source Data & Editor’s Note

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.