Shootings in Chicago have increased 78% in just the past seven days, according to fresh data from CPD analyzed by the NBC 5 Investigates team.
Those skyrocketing shooting statistics are contributing to a troubling Chicago crime spike across all of February and March. The city has seen back-to-back months with shootings up significantly from one year ago, along with homicides during February and March.
While two months doesn’t necessarily make a trend, the climbing numbers are raising concerns.
A shooting in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood is one of the latest. A 25-year-old woman walking near Rush Street and Chicago Avenue when she was shot in her thigh Monday night by a stray 9mm bullet — one of nine shots fired from a passing car that was targeting a vehicle that then crashed.
According to CPD crime statistics from late March reviewed by NBC 5 Investigates, there were 32 shootings in the city between March 23 and March 29. During the same period in 2025, there were 18 shootings. That reflects a 78% spike in shootings.
For the entire month of March this year, shootings jumped 15% from a year ago. A similar increase during February saw shootings rise 13% during that month.
“Anytime you see a significant increase in crime like that, you have to be concerned,” said retired Chicago Chief of Detectives Eugene Roy. “At the same time, this is like being a championship sports team. You end up playing against yourself. You’re trying to better your own record.”
The former CPD official said that with uniform police staffing down, today’s swearing in of nearly 250 new officers is a positive sign. But Roy said that alone is hardly enough to ward off increased street shootings and homicides heading into this summer.
“You have be more judicious about where and when you deploy your officers and what sort of missions you give them, what sort of assignments you give to them,” Roy said. “This reminds me of when I was growing up in the 60s and the 70s. Government is under attack; our institutions are under attack. There’s a shock, there’s a change in the way people respect other people and not for the better.”
With the jump in shootings, murders citywide have also surged in the past two months: increasing 16% in March and 18% in February compared to a year ago.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was asked Tuesday by NBC Chicago’s political reporter Mary Ann Ahern about the mounting murders and shootings.
“The safest cities in America have one thing in common and that is that they invest in people,” Johnson said at an unrelated news conference in City Hall. “I believe that as long as we are taking the concerted effort to invest in education, transportation, health care, good paying jobs, housing. I believe that we can build the type of city we can all be proud of.”
He pointed to all crime in the city being down this year by 3%.
On Tuesday, Chicago police officials provided this statement: “The men and women of the Chicago Police Department are working around the clock to enhance safety in every community throughout the city. We are continuing to review and adjust patrol resources as needed to combat crime patterns and trends as they occur. Additionally, our detectives remain committed to identifying and arresting violent offenders to remove them from our streets so they cannot cause any more harm and trauma in our city.”
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