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South Lawndale. / 41.8500°N 87.7100°W / 41.8500; -87.7100. South Lawndale is a community area on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois. Over 80% of the residents are of Mexican descent and the community is home to the largest foreign-born Mexican population in Chicago.
Overview. Chicago saw a major rise in violent crime starting in the late 1960s. Murders in the city peaked in 1974, with 970 murders when the city's population was over three million, resulting in a murder rate of around 29 per 100,000, and again in 1992, with 943 murders when the city had fewer than three million people, resulting in a murder rate of 34 murders per 100,000 citizens.
Cody King. June 22, 2024 at 7:11 PM. CHICAGO - A ShotSpotter alert led Chicago police to the victim of a deadly shooting in the Little Village neighborhood. The shooting occurred just before 3:30 ...
June 10, 2024 at 6:58 AM. CHICAGO - A man was killed and another was critically wounded in a shooting Sunday night in the Little Village neighborhood. Officers found two men, 23 and 35, suffering ...
Cody King. June 23, 2024 at 4:50 PM. CHICAGO - A deadly shooting in the Little Village neighborhood has left one man dead and two women hospitalized, one of whom is in critical condition. The ...
2018 Little Village fire. On August 26, 2018, a fire began early that morning in Chicago 's Mexican-American Little Village neighborhood. The fire killed ten children, including six children under the age of 12. [2] The fire is the deadliest residential fire to have occurred in Chicago since 1958. [3] In the aftermath of the fire, multiple ...
June 12, 2024 at 6:28 AM. CHICAGO - A 14-year-old boy was shot and critically wounded Tuesday night in the Little Village neighborhood. The teen was on the sidewalk around 8:30 p.m. when shots ...
Impact on crime rates, schools, and housing Crime rates and schools. Papachristos et al. (2011) related the number of coffee shops, a marker of gentrification, to the decrease in crime rates in neighborhoods in Chicago between 1991 and 2005. However, the study found that gentrification was associated with increased crime rates in black ...