Chicago Fraud

Chicago · Fraud · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Chicago police open data recorded 15,746 fraud incidents, 6.6% of all 239,507 incidents reported in the city that year and down 4.1% from 2024. That is about 579 per 100,000 residents, compared with 309 per 100,000 across the 58 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 12,366 fraud incidents have been published.

Fraud in Chicago by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)12,366——
202515,746579down 4.1%
202416,414603down 6.8%
202317,604647up 2.2%
202217,232633down 4.3%
202118,003662down 3.6%
202018,670686down 3.2%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 283,997 fraud incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most fraud (2025)

  1. Near North Side 1,218 incidents
  2. Loop 778 incidents
  3. Near West Side 680 incidents
  4. Lake View 620 incidents
  5. Austin 535 incidents
  6. West Town 517 incidents
  7. Lincoln Park 363 incidents
  8. South Shore 352 incidents

Neighborhood names as published by the police feed; counts are not adjusted for population.

Questions

How many fraud incidents were reported in Chicago in 2025?

15,746, according to Chicago Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is fraud going up or down in Chicago?

Reported fraud was down 4.1% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 8.6% compared with 2022 (falling over three years).

Where does this data come from?

Source: Chicago Police Department open data. TheCrimeMaps.com groups each published offense into a crime type; counts are police-reported incidents, not convictions, and some reports are reclassified or removed by the source later.

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