Chicago crime — August 2024
22,244 reported incidents · 0 arrests recorded in this sample.
The August 2024 slice on LocalCrimeVault currently holds 22,244 Chicago Police Department incidents with a report date in 2024-08. The rows come from CPD's public extract on the City of Chicago open-data portal. Twenty-two thousand two hundred forty-four is city-wide monthly report volume, not a late-summer festival scoreboard and not a conviction file.
Key figures
- 22,244 Chicago CPD incidents in this index have a report date in 2024-08.
- The August total is city-wide across IUCR types.
- No festival-weekend subtotal is published.
- Counts are police reports, not convictions.
August report dates in the CPD feed
The 22,244 rows are every indexed CPD incident whose report date falls in 2024-08, all IUCR primary types included. Lollapalooza-weekend calendars, Air and Water Show dates, and back-to-school shopping periods are not packet subtotals. If those days produced reports, they sit inside 22,244 when the report date is in August. This page will not attribute the month total to any event.
Report date is the membership rule. An occurrence in July that was reported in August is in. An August occurrence reported in September is not in this slice. The packet does not quantify that lag.
IUCR labels on the overlay are CPD's. Filter for one type if you need it. The month page does not recode charges and does not publish a type mix, because type counts are not in the facts.
August 2024 in Chicago is 22,244 indexed CPD incidents with report dates in 2024-08. Festival weekends are not broken out. Lakefront pins, if denser, are still one row each toward 22,244. Do not write a Grant Park subtotal from this packet. Report date can differ from occurrence date. Cite the CPD extract and the current harvest. Later rows can still arrive.
Lakefront pins are still not a festival subtotal
Official community area names appear when CPD published them. The 22,244 headline belongs to Chicago as a whole, not to Grant Park, not to the lakefront, and not to any single area.
Festival corridors and beach-adjacent pins may look dense in an August table. That is a table observation about report locations, not a packet fact about event crime. Block-level pins are not venue identifications.
Blank community areas still count toward 22,244. Filtering them out of the overlay will shrink the visible set below the headline.
On the 2024-08 overlay, official community area names are the geography this Chicago index supports when CPD published them. The 22,244 headline is not Austin, not Near North Side, and not any other single official area. Researchers who need one area should filter the table and caption the subset as a subset. Block-level coordinates, when present, are offset public-record locations. They do not identify a resident, a school, or a storefront by street number. CPD incident rows can lack an area; those rows still sit inside 22,244. LocalCrimeVault does not impute a community area to complete a pin map. Festival-corridor or lakefront density, if you observe it after sorting, is a table observation about report locations, not a packet fact about event crime. Keep 22,244 attached to Chicago as a whole for 2024-08.
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Questions
- How many Chicago CPD incidents are indexed for August 2024?
- LocalCrimeVault currently indexes 22,244 incidents with a report date in 2024-08. The source is Chicago Police Department open data. The mix includes all IUCR primary types in that window. The figure counts police reports, not convictions. 22,244 is the current indexed total for Chicago report dates in 2024-08, drawn from Chicago Police Department records on city open data. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify charges. Later harvests can still move the integer.
- Does 22,244 break out festival weekends?
- No. The packet has one month total. Event-weekend reports, if they exist, are inside 22,244 when the report date falls in 2024-08. Filter the overlay by date. This page does not publish a festival subtotal. The packet facts give one month total for Chicago in 2024-08. Event-day isolation requires a date filter on the overlay. This page does not invent a subtotal that is not in the facts. Counts remain reports, not convictions.
- Is the August total a lakefront-only figure?
- No. 22,244 is city-wide. Official community area names appear when CPD published them. Lakefront pins, if denser, are report locations, not a packet fact about festival crime. 22,244 is city-wide for Chicago. Official community area names appear when the source published them. Some rows lack geography. Filter the overlay for a single official community area; do not treat the headline as that area's volume. Block-level pins are not household identifications.
- Does an August 2024 incident row mean a conviction?
- No. Public incident rows are reports. Arrest flags are not court findings. LocalCrimeVault indexes CPD incidents by report date and does not reclassify charges. Public incident rows for Chicago in 2024-08 are Chicago Police Department reports across IUCR primary types. An arrest field is not a court finding. LocalCrimeVault indexes by report date and does not treat 22,244 as a guilty-finding total. Court outcomes live in a different system.
Chicago Police Department incidents via the city open-data portal (Socrata), indexed on LocalCrimeVault. Counts are reports, not convictions.