Stalking in Chicago — Crime Statistics 2026
1,036 indexed reports · 0.2% of Chicago incidents · 0 arrests in recent sample.
What is stalking in Chicago?
Stalking is a course of conduct — two or more acts of following, monitoring, threatening, or communicating — directed at a person that the offender knows would cause a reasonable person to fear for their safety or suffer emotional distress. Illinois law (720 ILCS 5/12-7.3) makes stalking a Class 4 felony, with aggravated stalking and cyberstalking charged more severely.
Chicago PD files simple stalking, aggravated stalking, and cyberstalking under distinct IUCR descriptions. A large share of reports are connected to domestic-violence cases and orders of protection.
LocalCrimeVault has 1,036 stalking reports indexed in Chicago — 0.2% of all tracked incidents. The most recent full month on record (June 2026) logged 47 reports, up from 10 in May 2026.
Other offense types in Chicago
Top categories citywide: Theft (99,072), Battery (76,864), Criminal Damage (47,011).
How common is stalking in Chicago?
Stalking accounts for 1,036 indexed police reports in Chicago (0.2% of tracked offenses). Data comes from City of Chicago Open Data — Crimes.
- How many stalking incidents are in Chicago?
- LocalCrimeVault has 1,036 indexed stalking reports in Chicago, sourced from City of Chicago Open Data — Crimes.
- What share of stalking reports lead to arrest?
- In our most recent sample of 0 stalking records, 0 (0%) include an arrest flag in the source data.
- How often is stalking 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.