Highest in 25 Years: Cook County Saw 1,087 Homicides in 2021, 836 of Which Happened in Chicago
On the bright side, Chicago had its lowest amount of burglaries since the 1960s!
Posted by Mary Chastain Monday, January 3, 2022 at 07:00pm 40 Comments
The Cook County Medical Examiner’s (CCME) officer recorded 1,087 homicides in 2021, 836 of which happened in Chicago.
Gun-related homicides made up 1,002 of those homicides.
The CCME has not handled this many cases since 1994:
Blacks accounted for 80 percent of the county’s homicide victims, with Latinos accounting for more than 14 percent of county-wide homicide deaths in 2021. Men accounted for 88 percent of the county’s homicide victims.
In 2021, 86 homicides were recorded with victims under the age of 18. Of those, 12 were under the age of 10.
The Chicago Police Department said 797 were killed in the city. The number did not include those killed on the expressways since the Illinois State Police handles those crimes.
But when you include those homicides the number goes up to 836. Chicago saw 4,300 gunshot victims. The number includes those who died and were wounded.
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