Chicago crime — April 2026
12,294 reported incidents · 634 arrests recorded in this sample.
LocalCrimeVault currently indexes 12,294 Chicago Police Department incidents whose report date falls in April 2026 (2026-04). The total is a city-wide monthly slice of the CPD public incident feed, published through the city's open-data portal. It mixes every IUCR primary type. It is a count of police reports, not convictions, and LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify CPD charges.
Key figures
- 12,294 Chicago CPD incidents in this index have a report date in April 2026.
- The monthly total is city-wide and includes all IUCR primary types.
- The slice uses report date, not a separate occurrence-date total.
- Counts are police reports, not convictions.
April 2026 as a report-date window
The 12,294 figure includes each indexed incident with a report date in April 2026, from property taking to person-crime labels and residual IUCR types. One row is one incident in the extract. Multiple victims can share a report; multiple reports can involve the same people. The month total is rows, not unique persons.
CPD's public file carries both timing fields on many rows. This slice is defined by report date in 2026-04. If you need occurrence-date volume, that would be a different cut, and this packet does not provide it. Stay with 12,294 as the report-date count.
April 2026 contains 12,294 indexed rows, enough that a single community-area filter will look small next to the city-wide headline. That is expected. The overlay is for drilling down; the 12,294 figure stays the unfiltered report-date total.
A city-wide mix, not a district blotter
April's 12,294 reports span Chicago. Police districts and official community areas (the city's 77-area list) appear on rows when present. The headline number is not "crime in one neighborhood." Adding a few community areas from a filtered table will undercount if other areas or blank-geography rows are left out.
Block-level locations are not door addresses. They are the privacy-preserving geography of the open-data extract. Do not treat a pin as naming a resident.
Weekend versus weekday patterns, if you need them, come from the table's date column. This packet does not include that split. Do not invent an April weekend subtotal. CPD and the City of Chicago publish the incidents; LocalCrimeVault indexes them.
Full neighborhood guide: Chicago police reports — April 2026 →
Questions
- How many Chicago CPD incidents are indexed for April 2026?
- LocalCrimeVault currently indexes 12,294 incidents with a report date in April 2026. The source is Chicago Police Department open data. The figure counts police reports across all IUCR primary types, not convictions or unique offenders. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify CPD charges. The 12,294 mix includes every IUCR type with a report date in April 2026.
- Does April 2026 include only violent crime?
- No. The 12,294 total is the full monthly mix: theft, battery, damage, and every other primary type CPD filed with a report date in 2026-04. Filter the table for a single type. The month page is a date slice, not a violence index. The 12,294 headline is city-wide, not one community area.
- Is this a community area total?
- No. 12,294 is city-wide. Community area names on rows are official city geography when CPD published them. Some rows lack area. Do not treat the headline as Austin, the Loop, or any other single area. Use the table filters for geography. Quote 12,294 as report-date volume for 2026-04 in the current index.
- Does an April 2026 row mean a conviction?
- No. Public incident rows are reports. They can exist without an arrest. The 12,294 count is monthly report volume. Court outcomes live elsewhere. Block-level maps are not identifications of residents. The 12,294 count is monthly report volume, not convictions or unique offenders.
Monthly counts are CPD incidents with a report date in that month, via LocalCrimeVault.