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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.
That’s 45 fewer people killed when compared with 2023. Austin lead all community areas with the most homicides in 2024 — 47. Where each homicide occurred in 2024 (through Dec. 31)
Chicago pimp killed in bombing: Roger Touhy: Chicago: 1959-12-16: 1: Bootlegger murdered one month after being released from 29 years in prison: William Jackson: Streeterville, Chicago: 1961-08-11: 1: Gangster tortured to death by fellow gangsters on suspicion he was an FBI informant: Harry Aleman: Chicago: 1972-09-27
In the days after the massacre, Scalise was heard to brag, "I am the most powerful man in Chicago." Unione Siciliana president Joseph Guinta had recently elevated him to the position of the Unione's vice-president. Nevertheless, Scalise, Anselmi, and Guinta were found dead on a lonely road near Hammond, Indiana on May 8, 1929. Gangland lore has ...
A man suspected of shooting and killing eight people in suburban Chicago this weekend was related to most of the victims, authorities said Tuesday, a day after the 23-year-old fatally shot himself ...
Officials had only identified one of the victims, Simeon Bihesi, a 28-year-old man, as of midday Tuesday. The Cook County Medical Examiner's office said one of the victims was a 52-year-old man ...
Richard Benjamin Speck (December 6, 1941 – December 5, 1991) was an American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago, residence via stabbing, strangling, slashing their throats, or a combination of the three on the night of July 13–14, 1966. Speck also raped one victim before killing her. A ninth ...
This comes after days of anguish and fear for people living in the Chicago suburbs. ... Officials said one victim was found Sunday at a home in Will County. ... a 20-year-old woman, a 38-year-old ...