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Shootings, Homicides in Chicago Both Down More than 30% Through First Half of 2025: Police [1]

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Date: 2025-07-11

Shootings, Homicides in Chicago Both Down More than 30% Through First Half of 2025: Police





Shootings and homicides across Chicago are each down more than 30% through the first half of 2025 compared to the same time last year after the city recorded its fewest homicides for any June in more than a decade.

According to data from the city and Chicago Police Department, total violent crime is down at least 22% thus far in 2025, while there have been 90 fewer homicides and more than 400 fewer shootings compared to last year.

Through the first half of 2025, the CPD recorded 188 homicides and 665 shootings, which mark declines of 32% and 39%, respectively. City data shows significant declines in other categories of violent crimes including carjackings (down 51%), robberies (down 32%), aggravated assaults (down 18%) and aggravated batteries (down 9%).

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The number of sexual assaults recorded this year is up less than 1%, according to the data.

Chicago also closed out the first half of 2025 with its fewest homicides in any June since 2014, according to the CPD. With 34 homicides recorded last month, June 2025 saw half the number of homicides as June 2024 (68).

Aside from June 2014, no other single month of June in Chicago has had fewer than 40 homicides since at least 1970, according to CPD data.

So far in July, four people were killed in a River North mass shooting and nine people were killed by gunfire or other means over the extended Fourth of July weekend.

That total was also a significant decline from 2024 when more than 100 people were shot and 19 were killed over the holiday weekend, though the 2024 weekend was four days long compared to a three-day weekend this year.

According to the CPD, officers have recovered 5,513 illegal firearms so far in 2025, for an average of 32 per day.

Deputy Mayor for Community Safety Garien Gatewood this week said limiting access to those weapons is “our No.1 issue.”

“We have a problem with access to guns in this city, just the sheer volume,” he said at a press conference Tuesday, calling them “weapons of mass destruction” and noting that police have recovered more than 20,000 firearms during Mayor Brandon Johnson’s term in office.

“It’s important that, one, we are able to hold folks accountable, able to continue to do the work to continue to get guns off our streets,” he added, “but I think people just need to understand just the sheer volume and access to guns in our city from surrounding areas that are brought into our city is one of the major problems.”

Note: This article was first published July 11, 2025, and updated with video July 28, 2025.

WTTW News coverage of policing and police reform is supported by The Joyce Foundation.

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