Chicago's murder rate soars 72% in 2016; shootings up more than 88%. Police say most of the violence was contained to a few pockets in the city. read more
There were 480 murders in 2015, the most in the city since 1997. The bloodshed has brought trauma to the lives of thousands of people. City police investigated 27 shooting incidents, 12 of which were fatal, just in the last week of December 2016. read more