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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.
Attempted murder (48 counts) Aggravated battery (48 counts) On July 4, 2022, a mass shooting occurred during an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois, United States. The shooting occurred at 10:14 a.m. CDT (UTC−05:00), roughly 15 minutes after the parade had started.
01:07. An Illinois man was charged Tuesday with murder in connection with the Labor Day shooting of four people who authorities said were sleeping in their seats on a Chicago-area commuter train ...
Alton Spann. Motive. Robbery. The murder of Zheng Shaoxiong occurred in Chicago, United States on November 9, 2021, when Dennis Zheng Shaoxiong, a 24-year-old graduate at the University of Chicago, [1] was fatally shot by Alton Spann, a 19-year-old Chicago resident, on the sidewalk in the 900 block of East 54th Street in Hyde Park. [2]
Updated September 3, 2024 at 8:21 AM. Four people fatally shot on a commuter train in the Chicago area early Monday appeared to be attacked while asleep in their seats, police said. The victims ...
CBS. CHICAGO (CBS) — Four people were killed in a mass shooting on a CTA Blue Line train in west suburban Forest Park on Monday morning. All four victims were passengers on a Blue Line train as ...
Official misconduct. On July 6, 2024, Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old black woman, was shot and killed in her home by Sean Grayson, a white deputy of the Sangamon County Sheriff's Office in Woodside Township near Springfield, Illinois, United States. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] Massey called 911 about a possible prowler. Grayson and an unidentified deputy ...
The police department’s 2021 clearance rate of 50%, a two-decade high, came in part because the number of murders it blamed on suspects who are now dead rose sharply from previous years.