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Old 06-05-2009, 11:16 AM
 
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i was wondering this because i seen somewhere the numbers for LA city and LA county, and i know we can find Chicago numbers but is there anyway we can find the Cook County numbers? i want to see how it compares to LA county numbers. It seems for LA that the county has more murders than the city and i want to see how chicago and cook county compare and how Cook and LA county compare
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Old 06-05-2009, 11:18 AM
 
Location: Chicago- Lawrence and Kedzie/Maywood
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No, I have never found any.
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Old 06-05-2009, 11:19 AM
 
Location: Chicago, Illinois
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Just use city data and go town by town. If you are at work, you can knock it out in under an hour. I would guess that you can add an extra 100 murders for Cook County cities that reside outside of Chicago, probably more.
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Old 06-05-2009, 11:36 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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Old 06-18-2009, 03:24 PM
 
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http://www.isp.state.il.us/docs/cii/...g27_to_200.pdf

Here is the Illinois State Police report for 2007. They haven't released the 2008 report as of yet. Crime was up in 2008, but has dropped back down for 2009 so far.....

Cook County: 80 murders for 2,455,801 people - 3.25/100,000
Chicago City: 443 murders for 2,832,854 people - 15.64/100,000

Total: 554 murders for 5,288,655 people

Rate: 10.47/100,000

Other Metro Counties:

DuPage: 11 for 932,670 - 1.18/100,000
Kane: 20 for 493,735 - 4.05/100,000 (triple the rate from a year earlier)
McHenry: 0 for 312,373 people - 0/100,000
Lake: 10 for 713,076 people - 1.40/100,000
Will: 18 for 668,217 people - 2.69/100,000
DeKalb: 3 for 100,139 people - 3/100,000
Grundy: 0 for 45,828 people - 0/100,000
Kendall: 1 for 88,158 people - 1.13/100,000

Illinois Metro Total: 617 for 8,642,851 - 7.14/100,000

Illinois Metro Minus Cook County: 63 for 3,354,196 - 1.87/100,000
Illinois Metro Minus City of Chicago: 174 for 5,809,997 - 2.99/100,000

Crazy how concentrated the crime is in certain areas of the West/South side of Chicago. I didn't realize how overwhelmingly safe from murder most of the metro area is.

I looked at the numbers from 2007 about 18 months ago using the district homicides and the population of community areas to roughly figure up that 75% of Chicago's murders occur in areas with roughly 25% of the city population.

Based on that you could say that (based on 25/75% of Chicago's population and murders)

708,213 people deal with 332 homicides a year in the city for a rate of - 46.88/100,000
2,124,639 people deal with 111 homicides a year in the city for a rate of - 5.22/100,000

So for the Illinois metro (can you tell I'm a bored accountant at work)

South/West Chicago: 332 for 708,213 people - 46.88/100,000
Remainder of City/Metro: 285 for 7,934,638 - 3.59/100,000

How's that for a spread, jeez. Of course those numbers aren't totally accurate, but I did spend a lot of time on them, and the community areas are small enough that they generally ran with the police districts. It's pretty on-target.

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Old 06-18-2009, 03:28 PM
 
Location: Chicago: Beverly, Woodlawn
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i was wondering this because i seen somewhere the numbers for LA city and LA county, and i know we can find Chicago numbers but is there anyway we can find the Cook County numbers? i want to see how it compares to LA county numbers. It seems for LA that the county has more murders than the city and i want to see how chicago and cook county compare and how Cook and LA county compare
Dude, you seem really obsessed with the murder stuff. Can't you get your fix with some reruns of Forensic Files.
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