Final 2016 Totals
Shot & Killed: 722
Shot & Wounded: 3658
Total Shot: 4380
Total Homicides: 808
Final 2016 Totals
Shot & Killed: 722
Shot & Wounded: 3658
Total Shot: 4380
Total Homicides: 808
Homicides | Wounded | |
---|---|---|
January | 57 | 246 |
February | 46 | 156 |
March | 50 | 281 |
April | 40 | 274 |
May | 69 | 339 |
June | 76 | 373 |
July | 75 | 381 |
August | 98 | 398 |
September | 69 | 301 |
October | 82 | 348 |
November | 83 | 323 |
December | 61 | 239 |
Neighborhood | Homicides | Wounded | Total |
---|---|---|---|
Austin | 92 | 445 | 537 |
Englewood | 85 | 356 | 441 |
Garfield Park | 58 | 326 | 384 |
North Lawndale | 34 | 243 | 277 |
Humboldt Park | 28 | 168 | 196 |
New City | 43 | 137 | 180 |
Roseland | 32 | 147 | 179 |
Auburn Gresham | 31 | 140 | 171 |
Grand Crossing | 33 | 127 | 160 |
South Shore | 24 | 104 | 128 |
Chicago Lawn | 20 | 97 | 117 |
Little Village | 17 | 87 | 104 |
West Pullman | 10 | 94 | 104 |
South Chicago | 18 | 73 | 91 |
Chatham | 20 | 67 | 87 |
All Others | 251 | 1039 | 1290 |
As of 1/1/17 |
Placement | Killed | Wounded |
---|---|---|
head | 266 | 133 |
chest | 175 | 197 |
back | 69 | 371 |
abdomen | 46 | 236 |
neck | 26 | 79 |
face | 19 | 91 |
side | 19 | 70 |
shoulder | 6 | 166 |
other | 15 | 2189 |
As of 1/1/17 |
Year | Killed | Wounded |
---|---|---|
2016 | 11 | 14 |
2015 | 9 | 16 |
2014 | 17 | 28 |
2013 | 13 | 30 |
2012 | 8 | 49 |
2011 | 23 | 37 |
2010 | 13 | 33 |
2009 | 19 | 42 |
2016 POs | - | 9 |
Cause | Homicides | % |
---|---|---|
Gunshot | 716 | 90.0% |
Stabbing | 44 | 5.5% |
Arson | 10 | 1.3% |
Trauma | 8 | 1.0% |
Child Abuse/Neglect | 8 | 0.9% |
Assault | 6 | 0.8% |
Auto | 3 | 0.4% |
Other/Unknown | 4 | 0.5% |
As of 2/24/17 |
Race | Victim | Assailant |
---|---|---|
Black | 626 | 108 |
Hispanic | 133 | 31 |
White/Other | 41 | 6 |
Self Defense | - | 12 |
Police | - | 11 |
Unknown | - | 632 |
As of 2/24/17 |
Gender | Killed | Wounded |
---|---|---|
Male | 732 | 3,285 |
Female | 68 | 378 |
As of 2/24/17 |
2014 | 2015 | 2016 | YoY % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Jan | 103 | 149 | 299 | +100% |
Feb | 72 | 75 | 189 | +152% |
Mar | 120 | 209 | 329 | +57.4% |
Apr | 263 | 236 | 310 | +31.3% |
May | 269 | 322 | 403 | +25.2% |
June | 280 | 293 | 442 | +50.8% |
July | 322 | 321 | 448 | +39.5% |
Aug | 296 | 358 | 481 | +34.3% |
Sept | 247 | 362 | 364 | +0.6% |
Oct | 245 | 235 | 422 | +79.5% |
Nov | 160 | 197 | 400 | +103% |
Dec | 241 | 252 | 295 | +17.0% |
As of 1/1/17 |
Legal Outcome | Homicides |
---|---|
No Suspect Charged | 621 |
Suspect Charged | 149 |
Self-Defense | 12 |
Police-Involved | 11 |
Murder/Suicide | 6 |
# of Victims | # of Incidents | # Killed |
---|---|---|
7 shot | 2 | 4 |
6 shot | 1 | 1 |
5 shot | 12 | 12 |
4 shot | 25 | 10 |
Hat Trick | 98 | 34 |
2 shot | 459 | 141 |
As of 1/1/17 |
Killed | Wounded | Total |
---|---|---|
715 | 3,680 | 4,395 |
As of 1/5/17 |
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 |
*Costs assume the following:
Cost estimates provided by Chicago Killings Cost $2.5 Billion.
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.