"While the city has followed a national trend of lowered gun violence, it has stood nearly alone in seeing a spike in robberies — nearly 40% more victims than the year before.
And more robbers are carrying guns, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab. In 2019, about 40% of robberies involved a gun. That surged to 60% in 2023.
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Other violent crime was also up in the city this past year: a 17% increase in aggravated battery and an almost 7% rise in assaults.
While there were fewer carjackings, car thefts were way up, more than three times higher than before the pandemic."
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