{"id":577752,"date":"2026-02-09T15:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/577752\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T15:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:53:09","slug":"tracking-number-of-victims-location-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/577752\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking number of victims, location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Information about homicides is <a href=\"https:\/\/data.cityofchicago.org\/Public-Safety\/Violence-Reduction-Victims-of-Homicides-and-Non-Fa\/gumc-mgzr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">released daily<\/a> by the city of Chicago. The release of homicide victims\u2019 names is delayed by two weeks to allow time for the victims\u2019 families to be notified of a death by Chicago police.<\/p>\n<p>The homicide figures do not include killings that occurred in self-defense or in other circumstances not measured in Chicago police statistics. Homicide data from the Illinois State Police, which patrols the city\u2019s expressways, also is not included here.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"46JTRFrHsR\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/12\/29\/2025-chicago-violence-steep-decline\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago violence continued to plummet in 2025 despite high-profile crimes<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After a two-year spike during the pandemic and national outrage over police accountability, Chicago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/criminal-justice\/ct-chicago-police-end-of-year-statistics-20230101-csik4prl5nbwjg5sv4bw75xj3y-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">began to see a decline<\/a> in homicides in 2022. Homicide and nonfatal shooting totals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/criminal-justice\/ct-cpd-year-end-20240101-czl3beotkjbtrc42y3y5z2gzgq-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">fell again<\/a> in 2023, but the city was roiled by robbery and carjacking crews responsible for an overall uptick in violence. Then 2024 was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2024\/12\/31\/as-2024-ends-johnson-and-snelling-again-point-to-drops-in-murders-shootings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">third consecutive year<\/a> of decreasing homicides in Chicago, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/12\/29\/2025-chicago-violence-steep-decline\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025 was the fourth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Data, which is updated on this page weekly, is through Feb. 6, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><b>The number of people slain so far in 2026: 38.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>That\u2019s 9 fewer people killed when compared with 2025.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Roseland and West Garfield Park have recorded the most homicides so far in 2026: 3.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Where each homicide occurred in 2026 (through Feb. 6)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Chicago\u2019s homicide victims in 2026 are often young, Black and male.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Most homicide victims in Chicago in 2026 died as the result of gunshot wounds.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Sources: City of Chicago; Tribune reporting and archives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Information about homicides is released daily by the city of Chicago. The release of homicide victims\u2019 names is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":530413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5461,235192,55494,235190,235193,4219,235191,235194,5416,4221,5386,1818,9620],"class_list":{"0":"post-577752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-chicago-crime","10":"tag-chicago-crime-2026","11":"tag-chicago-homicides","12":"tag-chicago-murders","13":"tag-chicago-murders-2026","14":"tag-crime","15":"tag-crime-rate-in-chicago","16":"tag-crime-rate-in-chicago-2026","17":"tag-deaths","18":"tag-homicide","19":"tag-il","20":"tag-illinois","21":"tag-murder"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}