Stalking in Chicago — Crime Statistics 2026
1,101 indexed reports · 0.2% of Chicago incidents · 0 arrests in recent sample.
Chicago Police Department records in this index include 985 incidents coded as Stalking among 410,083 Chicago reports. Stalking is a course-of-conduct IUCR primary type as CPD labeled the report. The 985 figure counts public incident rows, not convictions, not orders of protection, and not unique victims. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify CPD charges and does not describe individual cases.
Key figures
- 985 Chicago incidents are coded Stalking in an index of 410,083 city reports.
- Stalking is a distinct IUCR primary type; do not silently merge it with assault.
- The total counts reports, not unique victims, orders of protection, or convictions.
- Geography is block-level. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify CPD charges.
Course-of-conduct reports on the CPD feed
Stalking on the public extract is the primary type CPD assigned. Related conduct can also be filed as harassment-like codes under Other Offense, as Assault, or under other types depending on how the report was written. This page does not add those types together. The headline is 985 rows labeled Stalking.
A single course of conduct can produce one report or several. The 985 count is rows, not unique victims and not unique suspects. Cyberstalking versus in-person descriptions, when present, live on the table as CPD wrote them. This packet does not include those subtotals.
Illinois stalking statutes describe a course of conduct. The public extract still stores rows. One course can produce several of the 985 rows among 410,083 city incidents. The count is reports, not unique victims. This page does not invent a unique-victim figure.
Cite 985 among 410,083 Chicago incidents. Course-of-conduct reports do not equal unique victims. This page will not invent that unique count. Keep assault and residual harassment codes on their own hubs unless you disclose a custom mix.
Share of the 410,083-incident extract
Relative to 410,083 Chicago incidents, 985 stalking reports are a small share. Small share is not a statement that stalking is rare in victimization surveys; those surveys are not packet facts. The honest open-data number is 985 CPD rows in this harvest.
Maps use block-level geography and official community area names. Pins must not be treated as identifying a victim's home. Coarse location is a privacy feature of the public file.
Harassment-like residual codes under Other Offense are not automatically stalking. Keep 985 attached to IUCR primary type Stalking. LocalCrimeVault does not recode those residual rows onto this hub.
Protective-order databases are not 985. Quote CPD IUCR primary type Stalking. Block-level maps must stay coarse. Official community area names are the 77-area list. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify charges or describe individual cases.
Full neighborhood guide: Stalking reports in Chicago →
Questions
- How many stalking reports are in the Chicago CPD index?
- This extract lists 985 Chicago incidents with IUCR primary type Stalking, in a city file of 410,083 reports. The source is Chicago Police Department open data. The figure counts police reports, not unique victims, orders of protection, or convictions. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify CPD charges.
- Is stalking the same as assault or harassment in this data?
- Not automatically. CPD files Stalking as its own primary type. Assault and residual harassment-like codes can sit under other types. This page covers only the 985 stalking rows. Do not merge types without listing what you combined. Read IUCR codes on the table for the language CPD used.
- Does a stalking row mean a conviction?
- No. Public incident rows are reports. They can exist without an arrest or after charges change. The 985 count is report volume among 410,083 indexed Chicago incidents. Court orders and verdicts live in other systems. This page does not describe individual cases. The 985 count is report volume among 410,083 city incidents, not unique victims.
- Can the map identify a victim's home?
- CPD's public extract uses block-level ranges and official community areas, not street-number addresses. Treat geography as coarse on purpose. Use the type table and Chicago hub for aggregate location as published, not to identify people. The 985-row map uses CPD block ranges, not street-number addresses of victims.
Offense types are CPD IUCR primary categories on the public incident feed. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify charges.
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 1,101 stalking reports indexed in Chicago — 0.2% of all tracked incidents. The most recent full month on record (August 2026) logged 11 reports, down from 41 in July 2026.
Latest reports
Other offense types in Chicago
Top categories citywide: Theft (104,336), Battery (82,131), Criminal Damage (50,256).
How common is stalking in Chicago?
Stalking accounts for 1,101 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 1,101 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 1 stalking records, 0 (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.