Cook County, IL. Records Highest Number of Murders Since 1994
The county, which contains the city of Chicago, logged 1,009 homicides in 2021, the highest number in 27 years and 100 more than in 2020,
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Cook County has logged 1,009 homicides in 2021, the highest number in 27 years and 100 more than in 2020, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. More than half the people murdered were under the age of 30, with the youngest being a 1-month-old baby boy. Black people made up 81 percent of homicide victims and Latinos made up nearly 15 percent. The last time the county passed 1,000 murders was in 1994 with 1,141. Last year, the toll was 986, and the year before that it was 675. The most homicides on record for any year in Cook County was 1,229 in 1991. More than three-quarters of the homicides this year — 777 — have been in Chicago, where murders and shootings are both above all of last year. At least 4,105 people have been shot in Chicago this year, 8.1 percent more than last year and 69 percent more than in 2019.
