After a bloody first weekend in October, Chicago’s murder rate is now the highest it’s been for half a decade, and despite slight declines month-over-month, the city has now seen more than 600 homicides — a 50% increase from 2019 according to figures from the Chicago Police Department.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the city crossed the 600 homicide threshold last weekend after 53 people were shot and 5 were killed in a rash of city-wide violence. That’s a significant jump from the weekend before, where inclement weather kept many people at home, and only around 35 people were shot, though 5 people were killed.
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