Chicago saw an incremental decrease in homicides for the third consecutive summer, according to a Tribune review of city violence data. The city recorded 186 homicides between June 1 and Aug. 31, data show. Another 764 people suffered nonfatal gunshot wounds in that span.
Officers work the scene where a 24-year-old man was shot on the 1300 block of North Rockwell during the Labor Day holiday Monday Sept. 2, 2024, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)Guns and victims still remained on the scene as Chicago police investigate an early morning shooting near the 31st Street Beach on Friday June 21, 2024 (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)An ambulance transports a person at the scene where a 26-year-old man was fatally shot and a 25-year-old woman was shot on the 100 block of East 21st Street in the Near South Side neighborhood on Saturday, July 6, 2024, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)Chicago Police and U.S. Postal Inspector Police investigate the scene on the 12100 block of South Harvard where a U.S. mail carrier was shot and killed in the West Pullman neighborhood, Friday, July 19, 2024. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)Bullet casings sit at the scene where a 47-year-old man and a 39-year-old man were shot on the 2400 block of West Monroe Street early Sunday July 7, 2024 in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)Raven Adams, center, attends a memorial event at Monroe Street and Campbell Avenue in Chicago on Friday, May 31, 2024, days after her daughter Reign Ware, age 5, was shot and fatally wounded. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune)Parked CTA trains at the Forest Park CTA Blue Line Station in Forest Park on Sept. 3, 2024, following an early morning mass shooting that claimed the lives of four people. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)People prepare to march for peace on West Jackson Boulevard in Chicago on June 21, 2024, near the Oakley Square apartment complex where Jai’Mani Amir Rivera was shot and killed. Chicago recorded 186 homicides between June 1 and Aug. 31, data show, compared to 190 homicides in summer 2023. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune)Chicago Police and U.S. Postal Inspector Police investigate the scene on the 12100 block of South Harvard where a U.S. mail carrier was shot and killed in the West Pullman neighborhood, Friday, July 19, 2024. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, right meets with Toni Strong Upshaw, seated, in the 7100 block of S. Woodlawn Avenue in Chicago on Friday, July 5, 2024, after a vigil for some of Upshaw’s descendants who were shot and fatally wounded in the block a day earlier. Upshaw criticized the mayor and the police department but later apologized for her comments. Johnson said she had no need to apologize. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune)Funeral procession for Cook County Sheriff’s Deputy Rafael Wordlaw who was fatally shot during an attempted robbery, at St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church in Harvey on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, in Chicago. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)Chicago Police and U.S. Postal Inspector Police investigate the scene on the 12100 block of South Harvard where a U.S. mail carrier was shot and killed in the West Pullman neighborhood, Friday, July 19, 2024. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)Jariyah Cook, 4, right, waits as her siblings walk through the door to their grandmother’s home after school on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, in Chicago. Jariyah’s father, Joseph Cook, was fatally shot last week. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)People look on at the crime cene of a fatal shooting of two people at La Villita Park in the Little Village neighborhood in Chicago on Thursday, May 30, 2024. The park includes a soccer field and is across from the Cook County jail. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)Officers work the scene where a 25-year-old man was fatally shot on the 5800 block of South Elizabeth Street in the Englewood neighborhood early Sunday July 7, 2024 in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)Frank Mixon, center left, and Zariah Windbush, center right, mourn the deaths of their loved ones in the 7100 block of S. Woodlawn Avenue in Chicago on Friday, July 5, 2024. A mass shooting a day earlier left at least three people dead. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune)Ald. David Moore, 17th, talks with area residents in the 1200 block of West 73rd Place on Saturday, June 15, 2024, in Chicago. Moore has set up an encampment in the block to bring attention to violent crime and drug dealing in the neighborhood, with the hope his presence will lead to community and law enforcement engagement in dealing with the problems. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)A bike sits on the ground at the scene where a 24-year-old man was shot on the 1300 block of North Rockwell during the Labor Day holiday Monday Sept. 2, 2024, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)
