Chicago violent crime trends up as arrests trend down

By Patrick Andriesen

01/29/2025

Chicago residents reported 28,443 violent crimes during 2024. Attacks and threats were both up, with aggravated assaults hitting a 20-year high.

TAGS: Chicago, crime

Chicago mayor spends $700K per ‘affordable’ apartment unit

By Patrick Andriesen

12/12/2024

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s first effort at building “affordable” housing is costing nearly $700,000 per unit. Similar units in the same area cost $126,583.

TAGS: affordable housing

South Side gets 2.5X as many tickets per red-light camera as North Side

By Patrick Andriesen

11/11/2024

Red-light cameras on the city’s South Side issued the most tickets per intersection between October 2023 and September 2024, more than 2.5 times as many as cameras on the North Side. Citywide, fines are up to $61.4 million for past 12 months.

TAGS: red light cameras

Democratic delegates might have tough time finding Chicago’s migrant crisis

By Kurtis Karg, Dylan Sharkey

08/08/2024

Chicago’s migrant crisis has been national news and a $430-million headache. But those in the city for the Democratic National Convention will have a hard time seeing the problem because the city has moved shelters out of downtown and to the South Side.

TAGS: immigration

Vallas: 10 things you should know about Chicago crime today

By Paul Vallas

07/18/2024

Independence Day weekend was bloody in Chicago. City leaders are doing little other than pointing fingers. Here are 10 things Chicagoans should know about the current crime problem.

TAGS: Chicago, crime

Chicago committee looks at free-market solution to affordable housing

By Josh Bandoch

07/15/2024

Josh Bandoch, head of policy for the Illinois Policy Institute, testimony about how accessory dwelling units can help fix Chicago’s affordable housing shortage. City regulations and mandates can derail this free-market solution, though.

Black Chicagoans 20X likelier to be homicide victims; arrest rate hits record low

By Patrick Andriesen, Jon Josko

05/30/2024

Black Chicagoans were over 20 times more likely to become homicide victims during the past 12 months than their white peers, with 9-in-10 homicides on the South Side and West Side. Hopes of catching killers hit a new low.

TAGS: Chicago, crime

Chicago mayor loses tax hike support on South Side, West Side

By Dylan Sharkey, Jon Josko

03/20/2024

Voters on the South Side and West Side of Chicago supported Mayor Brandon Johnson just a year ago. They just vehemently rejected his plan to raise the real estate transfer tax, which threatened businesses and lacked details about easing homelessness.

TAGS: Brandon Johnson

Vallas: CTU’s community schools less about students, more about union power

By Paul Vallas

03/05/2024

Boosting “sustainable community schools” and killing selective enrollment and other public-school choices is the Chicago Teachers Union’s answer to fix city schools. But the push is about union power rather than raising student achievement.

Where are you most likely to get shot in Chicago?

By Patrick Andriesen

02/22/2024

Nearly 1 of every 900 Chicagoans was shot last year, and 1 in 5,000 killed by gunshot. Where was the greatest risk? The Austin neighborhood reported the most fatal shootings as well as the most shootings overall, with 1 shooting for every 414 residents

South Side

Chicago violent crime trends up as arrests trend down

Chicago mayor spends $700K per ‘affordable’ apartment unit

South Side gets 2.5X as many tickets per red-light camera as North Side

Democratic delegates might have tough time finding Chicago’s migrant crisis

Vallas: 10 things you should know about Chicago crime today

Chicago committee looks at free-market solution to affordable housing

Black Chicagoans 20X likelier to be homicide victims; arrest rate hits record low

Chicago mayor loses tax hike support on South Side, West Side

Vallas: CTU’s community schools less about students, more about union power

Where are you most likely to get shot in Chicago?

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