Chicago crime — April 2025
18,716 reported incidents · 0 arrests recorded in this sample.
LocalCrimeVault currently indexes 18,716 Chicago Police Department incidents with a report date in 2025-04. The source is CPD's public incident feed on the City of Chicago open-data portal. April's 18,716 rows are a city-wide monthly slice, not a conviction tally and not a single IUCR type. LocalCrimeVault does not rewrite CPD charges.
Key figures
- 18,716 Chicago CPD incidents in this index have a report date in 2025-04.
- The April total is city-wide across IUCR primary types.
- Holiday and school-calendar days are not published as subtotals.
- These rows are police reports, not convictions.
April as a report-date filter, not a story
Membership in 2025-04 is a date field, not a narrative about spring weather or school calendars. The 18,716 rows are CPD incidents whose report date falls in that month, every primary type included. This page will not invent an Easter, spring-break, or tax-deadline subtotal. Those events, if they produced reports, sit inside 18,716 only when the report date is in April.
IUCR primary types on the overlay are CPD's labels. Filter the table if you need one type. The month page does not recode charges and does not rank types, because type counts are not in this packet.
Report date can differ from occurrence date. An event that happened in March can be reported in April; an April occurrence can be reported later. This packet has one integer: 18,716 indexed reports with April report dates.
Anyone citing Chicago for 2025-04 should keep 18,716 glued to report date, not to occurrence date, and not to a spring-break story. Easter and tax-week civic calendars can produce reports; this packet does not isolate them. Filter the overlay if you need a narrower April window. Official community area names on rows are the city's list when CPD filled the field. The 18,716 headline is still city-wide. LocalCrimeVault does not impute blank areas or rewrite charges.
Where the 18,716 rows sit on the map
Chicago community area names on the table are the official city list when CPD filled that field. The headline 18,716 is not one area. Blank geography stays blank. LocalCrimeVault does not guess an area from a nearby pin.
Block-level coordinates, when present, are offset public-record locations. They do not identify a resident, a business, or a school by street number. Do not treat a cluster of April pins as a named-place indictment.
If downtown or lakefront rows look dense after you sort the overlay, that is a table observation. It is not a packet fact about Loop crime. Stay with 18,716 as the city-wide April total.
On the 2025-04 overlay, official community area names are the geography this Chicago index supports when CPD published them. The 18,716 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 18,716. 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 18,716 attached to Chicago as a whole for 2025-04.
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Questions
- How many Chicago police reports are indexed for April 2025?
- LocalCrimeVault currently indexes 18,716 CPD incidents with a report date in 2025-04. The feed is Chicago Police Department open data. The count covers all IUCR primary types in that month window. It is a report total, not a conviction total.
- Can I get an Easter or spring-break count from this page?
- No. Packet facts supply one number: 18,716. Holiday and school-calendar days are not broken out. If those days produced reports, they are inside 18,716 when the report date falls in 2025-04. Use a date filter on the overlay for a narrower window.
- Does 18,716 belong to one neighborhood?
- No. It is a Chicago city-wide monthly total. Official community area names appear when CPD published them. Some rows have no area. Filter the table for a single area; do not treat the headline as that area's count. 18,716 is city-wide. Filter the overlay for one official community area. Pins are not household identifications.
- Are April 2025 incident rows court outcomes?
- No. They are police reports. Arrest flags are not convictions. LocalCrimeVault indexes CPD incidents by report date and does not reclassify charges. Court files live in a different system. Public incident rows for Chicago in 2025-04 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 18,716 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.