Obscenity in Chicago — Crime Statistics 2026
96 indexed reports · 0.0% of Chicago incidents · 0 arrests in recent sample.
What is obscenity in Chicago?
Obscenity covers creating, selling, or distributing material that appeals to prurient interest, depicts sexual conduct in a patently offensive way, and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value — the constitutional Miller test codified in Illinois at 720 ILCS 5/11-20. Child pornography is charged under separate, far more serious statutes.
Chicago PD files obscenity and the sale/distribution of obscene material under their own IUCR descriptions. It is one of the smallest categories in the data, with only a handful of reports per year.
LocalCrimeVault has 96 obscenity reports indexed in Chicago — 0.0% of all tracked incidents. The most recent full month on record (June 2026) logged 4 reports, up from 1 in May 2026.
Other offense types in Chicago
Top categories citywide: Theft (99,072), Battery (76,864), Criminal Damage (47,011).
How common is obscenity in Chicago?
Obscenity accounts for 96 indexed police reports in Chicago (0.0% of tracked offenses). Data comes from City of Chicago Open Data — Crimes.
- How many obscenity incidents are in Chicago?
- LocalCrimeVault has 96 indexed obscenity reports in Chicago, sourced from City of Chicago Open Data — Crimes.
- What share of obscenity reports lead to arrest?
- In our most recent sample of 0 obscenity records, 0 (0%) include an arrest flag in the source data.
- How often is obscenity data updated?
- Chicago crime records sync nightly from the open-data portal. New reports appear on type and incident pages after the sync and deploy pipeline completes.