We are seeing big declines in crime across the country, suggesting that what’s going on may not be due to anything unique that Chicago’s doing.

Gun violence saw a steep drop from 2024. There were 2,274 shooting incidents in 2024, compared to 1,471 in 2025. There were 2,797 shooting victims in 2024 and 1,847 victims in 2025. Chicago police ...

(Bloomberg) -- Chicago is on pace to end the year with the fewest homicides since the 1960s, a triumph for a city that since the pandemic has been beset with high levels of violence. The third-largest ...

Click here to read a longer version of this piece, which originally ran on A City That Works' blog. We spend a lot of time talking about how police officers spend their time and the tools they are ...