A new study shows Chicago’s crime decline is part of a national trend that’s driving murders, carjackings and sexual assaults below pre-pandemic levels.
The report from the Council on Criminal Justice shows nationally, violent crime rates for the first half of 2025 were lower than in the first half of 2019. In Chicago the drop in homicides from 2019 to 2025 was significantly larger than the national average.
The national study is the latest confirmation of Chicago’s receding violence, which spiked in 2020 and 2021 and has fallen in the years since…