Burglary reports in Chicago

Burglary is entry, not robbery

Illinois and IUCR treat burglary as entering a building without authority with intent to commit a theft or felony. Robbery is taking property by force or threat, usually from a person. Theft is taking without that force and often without that entry. CPD keeps the three as separate primary types. This page's 17,300 rows are only burglary.

Residential versus commercial burglary, and attempted versus completed, may appear in IUCR codes or descriptions on the table. The packet facts do not include those splits, so none are quoted here. Forced-entry language on a row is CPD's wording, not a LocalCrimeVault recode.

Attempted burglary language, when CPD wrote it, stays on the row. This page does not publish an attempt subtotal because the packet facts give 17,300 as one primary-type count among 410,083 city incidents. Filter IUCR codes on the overlay if you need that cut, and keep CPD's wording in the footnote.

Volume among 410,083 city incidents

At 17,300 reports, about 4.2 percent of indexed Chicago incidents carry IUCR primary type Burglary. That share is about report volume in a harvest of 410,083 city reports, not about which events residents fear most.

Burglary maps are sensitive. A pin at a block does not identify a household by name. Official community area labels are the city's 77 areas. Dense counts can reflect apartment stock, commercial strips, or reporting habits. The open-data file does not assign a cause.

Apartment-dense community areas can show more burglary reports because there are more units, more doors, and more chances to file. The open-data file does not adjust for housing stock. Official community area names are the city's 77 areas. A raw rank of 17,300-row geography is not a burglary rate.

Reading the burglary table

Use date and community area filters on the 17,300 rows. Location is typically a block range. Time-of-day fields, when CPD publishes them, describe the report, not a verified entry minute. Missing geography is left blank; LocalCrimeVault does not impute a community area.

An arrest flag is not a conviction and is not proof the property was recovered. Recovery and loss dollars are not packet facts. Stay with the report count when you cite this page.

If a later news story uses a different burglary total, check date rules and whether attempts were included. This harvest's claim is 17,300 CPD incident rows with primary type Burglary. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify those rows as robbery or as theft.

Reports versus court cases

A burglary row can remain on the city portal if no one is charged. Unfounded reports may persist until CPD updates the source. The 17,300 total is the harvest count of primary type Burglary in the 410,083-incident Chicago index. Quoting it as convictions overstates legal outcomes.

CPD and the City of Chicago publish the incidents. LocalCrimeVault indexes IUCR primary types as filed. If a later charging document uses a different statute, that change may never appear on the public incident row.

Chicago hub and type overlay

The burglary type hub is the live table for these 17,300 Chicago reports. The Chicago hub shows burglary beside theft, robbery, and motor vehicle theft so the 4.2 percent share sits in context. A cross-city burglary page uses other agencies' definitions; some call similar events breaking and entering.

Cite 17,300 as Chicago Police Department incident rows with IUCR primary type Burglary among 410,083 city reports (about 4.2 percent). Keep unlawful entry distinct from robbery (force or threat against a person) and from theft without that entry. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify charges across those types.

Residential versus commercial splits, and attempt versus completed, belong on IUCR codes and descriptions. This packet has one total. Publishing a residential subtotal here would invent a number. Filter the 17,300-row table and keep CPD's wording.

Citing burglary without folding in robbery or theft

Time-of-day fields, when published, describe the report as CPD filled them, not a verified minute of entry. Missing geography is left blank. Official community area names are the city's 77 areas. A pin on a block is not a named household.

Recovery and loss dollars are not packet facts. An arrest flag is not a conviction. If a later charging document uses a different statute, that change may never appear on the public incident row. Record 17,300 with the 410,083 denominator and the harvest you used.

Questions

How many burglary reports are in the Chicago index?

This extract lists 17,300 Chicago incidents with IUCR primary type Burglary, about 4.2 percent of 410,083 city reports. The source is Chicago Police Department open data. The figure counts police reports, not convictions, unique burglars, or dollar losses. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify CPD charges. Burglary is 17,300 of 410,083 indexed Chicago incidents in this harvest.

Is burglary the same as robbery in Chicago data?

No. Burglary is unlawful entry of a structure as CPD coded it. Robbery is taking property by force or threat. Theft is taking without that force. This page covers only the 17,300 burglary rows. Mixing the types inflates property-crime or person-crime totals depending on how you group them.

Does the table show residential versus commercial burglary?

Those distinctions may appear in IUCR codes or descriptions on individual rows. The packet facts supply one primary-type total, 17,300, so this narrative does not publish a residential subtotal. Filter the live table and keep CPD's labels. Community areas are official city geography. The packet has one total, 17,300; filter the table for residential codes.

Does a burglary incident mean someone was convicted?

No. Public rows are reports. They can exist without an arrest or after charges are declined. The 17,300 count is report volume among 410,083 indexed Chicago incidents. Court records are a different system than the city open-data crime file. Quote 17,300 as CPD report volume among 410,083 city incidents, not as verdicts.