South Chicago Crime Map

South Chicago is not the South Side

South Chicago is one official community area on the Southeast Side. It is not a synonym for every South Side neighborhood. The 6,300 total is this area only. South Shore, South Deering, and East Side are different files.

Searchers mix 'South Chicago' with 'Chicago Lawn' and with 'south side crime.' This page answers one question: 6,300 indexed CPD reports coded to the South Chicago community area.

The citywide 410,083 figure is the parent extract. South Chicago's 1.5 percent share is a slice of that parent, not a region-wide South Side percentage.

South Chicago's 6,300 reports are whatever CPD published with this community-area assignment in the indexed snapshot. Beats, districts, and wards are different geographies. If a map you saw used beats, it will not match 6,300 even when the street looks familiar. Stay on the community-area table when you cite this page.

Open data is not a live dispatch feed. A scanner or a 911 tracker can show events that have not yet appeared as Socrata rows, and the reverse can also happen when CPD republishes older records. Treat 6,300 as the published extract LocalCrimeVault indexed, then re-pull if you need a new as-of date.

Report volume, stated once

6,300 is a count of published police incidents. It is not 6,300 convictions. It is not a claim about every person who lives in South Chicago.

Industrial lakefront geography is not a separate subtotal in this packet. Do not assign the entire 6,300 to a mill, a park, or a single street. Assign it to the community-area tag.

The 410,083 citywide total is the only denominator this packet supports. South Chicago's share of about 1.5 percent is comparable to other LocalCrimeVault Chicago neighborhood pages that use that same city file. It is not comparable to FBI city tables, OEMC call logs, or a vendor dashboard that used a different cut.

Questions

How many crime reports are in South Chicago?

LocalCrimeVault indexes 6,300 CPD incident reports for the South Chicago community area, out of 410,083 reports citywide. That is about 1.5 percent of the city file. The total is not a South Side rollup. It counts police reports, not convictions.

Is South Chicago the same as the South Side in this data?

No. South Chicago is one community area with 6,300 indexed reports. The South Side contains many official areas, each with its own extract. This page does not sum them. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. South Chicago's 6,300 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 1.5 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.

Are South Chicago figures convictions?

No. 6,300 counts published Chicago Police reports. Court outcomes are not in this extract. Quote report volume. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. South Chicago's 6,300 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 1.5 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.

Where is the South Chicago incident table?

The South Chicago incident table lists the 6,300 indexed rows. The name slug aliases the numbered path. Citywide 410,083 reports are on the Chicago crime hub. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. South Chicago's 6,300 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 1.5 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.