CHICAGO — Preliminary numbers show Chicago finished the year with the lowest number of murders in 60 years. There were 416 murders in 2025, which is down nearly half of the pandemic peak of 805 in ...

CHICAGO — With one month left in the year, Chicago is on track to have the lowest number of annual murders in more than a decade. Newly released crime numbers show 390 people were murdered through the ...

(Bloomberg) -- Chicago is on pace to end the year with the fewest homicides since the 1960s, a triumph for a city that since the pandemic has been beset with high levels of violence. The third-largest ...

As overall crime continued to drop in Chicago in 2025, the city ended the year with the fewest homicides in 60 years. Preliminary crime data from the Chicago Police Department showed the number of ...

A Cook County jury has convicted a man in the 2021 execution-style murder of 71-year-old Woom Sing Tse in the Chinatown neighborhood in Chicago. Alphonso Joyner, 27, was found guilty of first-degree ...

Gun violence saw a steep drop from 2024. There were 2,274 shooting incidents in 2024, compared to 1,471 in 2025. There were 2,797 shooting victims in 2024 and 1,847 victims in 2025. Chicago police ...

The Chicago Police Department’s criminal homicide tally for June, July and August is the lowest in 60 years. And overall violent crime remains near its lowest point in more than four decades. As the ...

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