By Sam Charles | scharles@chicagotribune.com | Chicago Tribune
PUBLISHED: December 29, 2024 at 5:00 AM CST
Chicago police officers work at the scene where a man was fatally shot in the Uptown neighborhood on Oct. 1, 2024. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)
Despite recording more than 570 homicides in 2024, Chicago actually saw signs of improvement, with that total marking the third consecutive year the city recorded fewer killings than the one prior.
In fact, 2024 was the first year since the COVID-19 pandemic that the city had fewer than 600 slayings before the turn of the calendar. The official figure was 571 just before Christmas, but no one is
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