Homicide rate surging for black Chicagoans, report finds
Chicago shooting scene
Crime scene tape blocks off the 1100 block of North Rockwell Street on June 19, 2016, in Chicago. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)
Dan HinkelContact ReporterChicago Tribune
Chicago's per capita homicide rate climbed over the last decade, and the chances of an African-American being killed in the city spiked drastically, according to a new report.
From 2005 to 2015, the city went from 17.3 homicides per 100,000 residents to a rate of about 18.8, according to a report from the Injury Prevention and Research Center at the Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.
But the report held particularly troubling news for African-Americans. The rate for blacks in Chicago jumped from 36.1 homicides per 100,000 residents in 2005 to 46.5 a decade later. Other studies have shown steep drops in the city's African-American population in recent years, but crime figures remain stubbornly high in many largely black neighborhoods.
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