There were 37 homicides in the city last month, the lowest total for any such month dating back to at least 1970. That total is down 18 percent compared to July 2025 — a year that ended with Chicago’s lowest homicide total in 60 years — and is less than half the totals of July 2020 and 2021, which each saw more than 100 killings.
There were 37 homicides in the city last month, the lowest total for any such month dating back to at least 1970. That total is down 18 percent compared to July 2025 — a year that ended with Chicago’s lowest homicide total in 60 years — and is less than half the totals of July 2020 and 2021, which each saw more than 100 killings.
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Oh, good – now it’s finally safe for suburbanites to go back to hanging out in Chicago (LOL).
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6 days ago
Lots of layers to this onion. 1. Weather- a rainy, cooler July than normal. Notice how violence spiked on hot days and particularly, nights . 2. Police are now ordered to be on the spot paramedics. That probably saves a life or two. 3. Spot Shotters abscence has curtailed / eliminated previously reported incidents as soon as they occur. 4. Perhaps the bangers have worn each other out or, more likely, have been shipped out to the previously low crime suburbs and now live with Big Momma in the proliferating Section Eight housing? Any suburban police force that will/ can… Read more »
Actually it’s up 10% so far this year over last…
The violence we read about in the paper and on tv is really just a tip of the iceberg. Mugging,robberies,domestic abuse etc are crimes that don’t make headlines.
Amazing how nationwide immigration enforcement drops the murder rate precipitously. No connection there, right?
Reply to Irish Patriot
Do a regression analysis.
Reply to Irish Patriot
you would need to provide evidence for that conclusion since as everyone should know, correlation does not equal causation
Reply to ahimsa42
It’s pretty clear that a nationwide crackdown on immigration would cause a nationwide decline in crime the murder rate. This is common sense. I could tell you the sky is blue and like some inane redditor, you’d scream at me demanding sources.
Not impressed with this monthly total.
Just read one day’s reporting by CWB Chicago and you know what kind of awful place this is.
Oh, yeah, at least CTA NO VIOLENCE TOLERATED signs are up. That signage should have gone up and been enforced years ago. Kinda hard to clean up the streets with Far Left leadership and fewer police.
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