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Chicago Summer Shooting Trends 2019-2023

A new analysis from the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab found that more than a third of annual shootings in Chicago happened in the summer, with July alone accounting for 12% of the year’s incidents. Those shootings are not only concentrated in the summer months, they overwhelmingly impact a small geographic region of the city.

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Chicago Summer Shooting Trends 2019-2023

A new analysis from the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab found that more than a third of annual shootings in Chicago happened in the summer, with July alone accounting for 12% of the year’s incidents. Those shootings are not only concentrated in the summer months, they overwhelmingly impact a small geographic region of the city.

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  • Introduction
  • Overview of Summer Gun Violence Trends (2019 – 2023)
  • Share of Annual Shootings by Month
  • Temporal Trends of Gun Violence
  • Geographic Concentration of Gun Violence
  • Shootings by Grids & Community Areas
  • Robberies by Grids
  • Assessment of High Violence Grids
  • Conclusion

Source: Developed by the Crime Lab with Chicago Data Portal datasets

Based on data queried on 2024-04-17


Share of shooting incidents by month, 2019 – 2023
Using 5 years of historical data, we can anticipate the grids that will likely
experience a large share of the summertime shootings & robberies.
Questions?
Contact Roseanna Ander, Executive Director [email protected]
Contact Jens Ludwig, Pritzker Faculty Director [email protected]
Learn more at crimelab.uchicago.edu

Prepared by Javier Lopez & Thomas Ballard

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