With 17 slayings, Humboldt Park is hardest-hit community area ...
With 17 slayings, Humboldt Park is hardest-hit community area
Inside the numbers
94 LAWRENCE
MALE VS. FEMALE
RACE OF VICTIMS In the past two years, the overwhelming majority of homicide victims have been black.
41
IRVING PARK
1
BELMONT
2010
2009
2010
2009
Male: 87.5%
Male: 87%
Black: 80.5%
Black: 77%
90 94
FULLERTON
REDEYE
Female: 12.5%
NORTH
CHICAGO
KEY TO THE MAP
White/ Hispanic: 19.5%
Female: 13%
White/ Hispanic: 23%
Note: In 2009, one of the victims was Asian; in 2010, the race of two victims was unknown.
MADISON
The map shows the 217 homicides in Chicago for the first six months of this year, based on preliminary police data. 184 homicide sites with one victim 13 homicide sites with multiple victims
AGE OF VICTIMS (2010)
290 ROOSEVELT HALSTED
Note: The victim’s age was not available for one of the homicides, so the numbers will not add up to 217.
55 35TH ST.
47TH ST.
67 victims 46 victims 39 victims 33 victims 25 victims 6 victims
41
90
12 and younger
94
13–19
20–25
26–30
31–40
41 and older
63RD ST.
2009 HOMICIDES There were 462 homicides in the city last year, down from 511 in ’08.
CAUSE OF DEATH (2010) Shot 176 victims Stabbed
E. JASON WAMBSGANS/TRIBUNE FILE
2
17 victims
4
SOURCES: CHICAGO POLICE; COOK COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINER’S OFFICE
Assault/trauma/abuse 12 victims
90 95TH ST.
57
Strangled 7 victims
94
Asphyxia 2 victims
[email protected]
Auto crash 2 victim
HIGH-PROFILE HOMICIDES
Arson 1 victim
mass shooting April 14 in the 7200 block of South 1 AMozart Street in Chicago Lawn left five people dead, including a 7-month-old boy and a 3-year-old girl. May 7, a man fatally shot a 22-year-old woman in an 2 On Old Navy store in the Loop before killing himself. man was strangled to death May 8 after 3 Ahe35-year-old allegedly stole items from a CVS store in the 2600 block of South Pulaski Road in South Lawndale. May 19, a 30-year-old Chicago police officer was 4 On shot to death in the 300 block of East 85th Street in Chatham. One of the alleged assailants in the incident also was shot to death. May 17, two men were found shot to death in a car 5 On in the 3100 block of West 48th Place in Brighton Park. A third man in the car, Andres Butron, right, died of asphyxia.
(All 2010 numbers are through June 30.)
In 2009 and 2010, more than four out of every five homicide victims were male.
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By Tracy Swartz CeaseFire’s West Humboldt Park office used to hang a sign showing the number of days since the neighborhood’s most recent shooting—fatal or otherwise. But recently, as the shootings increased in frequency, workers for the anti-violence initiative stopped hanging the sign because they didn’t want it to add to the neighborhood’s bad luck, outreach worker Derrick House said. From January through June, the Humboldt Park community area saw 17 homicides, all gunshot deaths, the most of any of Chicago’s 77 community areas, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. Citywide, 217 homicides were recorded for the first half of 2010, up from 204 during the same period in 2009, according to a RedEye analysis. Shootings and stabbings were up slightly compared with the first six months of 2009, and the number of stranglings more than doubled from three in the first half of 2009 to seven in 2010, RedEye determined. There also was an increase in multiple homicide cases. There was one triple homicide in all of 2009, when three teenagers were shot to death in February in South Chicago. In the first six months of 2010, there were four triple homicides and a shooting in Chicago Lawn in April killed five people. Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis acknowledged in a June news conference that “homicides continue to challenge” the police department. He blamed gang activity for the weekend of June 18, during which 54 people were shot and eight people were killed. House blamed a conflict within the Vice Lord gang for a rise in the number of shootings in the neighborhood where he lives and works. Humboldt Park’s 17 homicides is an increase from the 10 it recorded in the first six months of 2009. “It can get worse,” House said. “But it can change.”
ASHLAND
WESTERN
KEDZIE
6 months, 217 deaths
PULASKI
CICERO
coverstory
MORE ONLINE Check out RedEye’s interactive homicide map at homicides. redeyechicago.com, which now includes information on every homicide in Chicago since Jan. 1, 2008.
ALEX GARCIA/TRIBUNE FILE
3
5
2010 HOMICIDES (By month)
HOMICIDES FOR JANUARY THROUGH JUNE (By year) 47
47
50
268
279
284
238: Average number of homicides from January to June for the past 11 years
286 220
212
213
204
2004
2005
2006
2007
30 20
JAN WILLIAM DESHAZER/TRIBUNE FILE
TERRENCE ANTONIO JAMES/TRIBUNE FILE
231
204
217
2009
2010
23
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
2000
2001
2002
2003
2008
Note: Tallies from 2000–07 based on Chicago Police murder data released in 2009; some numbers may have changed since then. Tallies for 2008–10 from RedEye reporting; includes deaths where no murder charges were filed.
Inside the numbers
94 LAWRENCE
MALE VS. FEMALE
RACE OF VICTIMS In the past two years, the overwhelming majority of homicide victims have been black.
41
IRVING PARK
1
BELMONT
2010
2009
2010
2009
Male: 87.5%
Male: 87%
Black: 80.5%
Black: 77%
90 94
FULLERTON
REDEYE
Female: 12.5%
NORTH
CHICAGO
KEY TO THE MAP
White/ Hispanic: 19.5%
Female: 13%
White/ Hispanic: 23%
Note: In 2009, one of the victims was Asian; in 2010, the race of two victims was unknown.
MADISON
The map shows the 217 homicides in Chicago for the first six months of this year, based on preliminary police data. 184 homicide sites with one victim 13 homicide sites with multiple victims
AGE OF VICTIMS (2010)
290 ROOSEVELT HALSTED
Note: The victim’s age was not available for one of the homicides, so the numbers will not add up to 217.
55 35TH ST.
47TH ST.
67 victims 46 victims 39 victims 33 victims 25 victims 6 victims
41
90
12 and younger
94
13–19
20–25
26–30
31–40
41 and older
63RD ST.
2009 HOMICIDES There were 462 homicides in the city last year, down from 511 in ’08.
CAUSE OF DEATH (2010) Shot 176 victims Stabbed
E. JASON WAMBSGANS/TRIBUNE FILE
2
17 victims
4
SOURCES: CHICAGO POLICE; COOK COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINER’S OFFICE
Assault/trauma/abuse 12 victims
90 95TH ST.
57
Strangled 7 victims
94
Asphyxia 2 victims
[email protected]
Auto crash 2 victim
HIGH-PROFILE HOMICIDES
Arson 1 victim
mass shooting April 14 in the 7200 block of South 1 AMozart Street in Chicago Lawn left five people dead, including a 7-month-old boy and a 3-year-old girl. May 7, a man fatally shot a 22-year-old woman in an 2 On Old Navy store in the Loop before killing himself. man was strangled to death May 8 after 3 Ahe35-year-old allegedly stole items from a CVS store in the 2600 block of South Pulaski Road in South Lawndale. May 19, a 30-year-old Chicago police officer was 4 On shot to death in the 300 block of East 85th Street in Chatham. One of the alleged assailants in the incident also was shot to death. May 17, two men were found shot to death in a car 5 On in the 3100 block of West 48th Place in Brighton Park. A third man in the car, Andres Butron, right, died of asphyxia.
(All 2010 numbers are through June 30.)
In 2009 and 2010, more than four out of every five homicide victims were male.
90
By Tracy Swartz CeaseFire’s West Humboldt Park office used to hang a sign showing the number of days since the neighborhood’s most recent shooting—fatal or otherwise. But recently, as the shootings increased in frequency, workers for the anti-violence initiative stopped hanging the sign because they didn’t want it to add to the neighborhood’s bad luck, outreach worker Derrick House said. From January through June, the Humboldt Park community area saw 17 homicides, all gunshot deaths, the most of any of Chicago’s 77 community areas, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. Citywide, 217 homicides were recorded for the first half of 2010, up from 204 during the same period in 2009, according to a RedEye analysis. Shootings and stabbings were up slightly compared with the first six months of 2009, and the number of stranglings more than doubled from three in the first half of 2009 to seven in 2010, RedEye determined. There also was an increase in multiple homicide cases. There was one triple homicide in all of 2009, when three teenagers were shot to death in February in South Chicago. In the first six months of 2010, there were four triple homicides and a shooting in Chicago Lawn in April killed five people. Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis acknowledged in a June news conference that “homicides continue to challenge” the police department. He blamed gang activity for the weekend of June 18, during which 54 people were shot and eight people were killed. House blamed a conflict within the Vice Lord gang for a rise in the number of shootings in the neighborhood where he lives and works. Humboldt Park’s 17 homicides is an increase from the 10 it recorded in the first six months of 2009. “It can get worse,” House said. “But it can change.”
ASHLAND
WESTERN
KEDZIE
6 months, 217 deaths
PULASKI
CICERO
coverstory
MORE ONLINE Check out RedEye’s interactive homicide map at homicides. redeyechicago.com, which now includes information on every homicide in Chicago since Jan. 1, 2008.
ALEX GARCIA/TRIBUNE FILE
3
5
2010 HOMICIDES (By month)
HOMICIDES FOR JANUARY THROUGH JUNE (By year) 47
47
50
268
279
284
238: Average number of homicides from January to June for the past 11 years
286 220
212
213
204
2004
2005
2006
2007
30 20
JAN WILLIAM DESHAZER/TRIBUNE FILE
TERRENCE ANTONIO JAMES/TRIBUNE FILE
231
204
217
2009
2010
23
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
2000
2001
2002
2003
2008
Note: Tallies from 2000–07 based on Chicago Police murder data released in 2009; some numbers may have changed since then. Tallies for 2008–10 from RedEye reporting; includes deaths where no murder charges were filed.
