Chicago Has 32,000+ Shooting Victims in Last Decade Alone
Democrats push back against Trump administration’s claims Chicago is a ‘war zone’ even as evidence shows more than 32,000 people have been shot in the Windy City over the past decade.
Breitbart News pulled data from the Chicago Sun-TimesCNN, and the Chicago Police Department (CPD), to offset the overall number of shooting victims for each year, starting in 2016 and ending October 4, 2025.
The numbers below include all shooting casualties in our time frame, fatal and non-fatal combined:
- 2016 – 4,349 (CNN)
- 2017 – 3,457 (CNN)
- 2018 – 2,876 (From the sun)
- 2019 – 2,639 (From the sun)
- 2020 – 4,090 (From the sun)
- 2021 – 4,385 (CPD)
- 2022 – 3,485 (CPD)
- 2023 – 2,876 (CPD)
- 2024 – 2,758 (CPD)
- 2025 ytd – over 1,500
Adding the numbers above shows the total number of shooting victims to be at least 32,415.
Breitbart News reported that at least 30 people were shot over the past weekend, five of them fatally.
According to the Chicago Tribunemore than 330 people have been murdered in Chicago so far in 2025.
Related: Democrat-run Chicago under siege
Despite the violent decade of shooting victims and the current murder tally, the Hill quoted Illinois Governor JB Pritzker (D) as saying that it is the Trump administration that “[wants] To create the “war zone” to justify sending more troops.
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