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CHICAGO — Not even America’s largest city, but Chicago sits at the top of the Gun Violence Archive mass-shooting database.
Chicago recorded 106 mass shootings in the 2,000-incident GVA export analyzed by SubX.News®, putting it ahead of every other city represented in the database.
Second-place Philadelphia recorded 61.
Chicago had 45 more mass shootings than Philadelphia, roughly 74% more.
Chicago vs Philadelphia
Killed: 76 vs 58 → Chicago 31% higher
Injured: 478 vs 262 → Chicago 82% higher
Total victims: 554 vs 320 → Chicago 73% higher
The gap gets wider from there.
Chicago recorded 179% more mass shootings than Memphis, 194% more than Dallas and 231% more than Houston.
Even more striking, New York City and Los Angeles, both larger than Chicago by population, don’t appear in the top five.
Chicago recorded 3.9 times as many mass shootings as New York City, 106 to 27.
Chicago recorded 4.2 times as many as Los Angeles, 106 to 25.
Chicago’s 106 mass shootings left 76 people dead and 478 wounded, 554 victims in all.
Not the biggest city. Not even close.
But #1 in this Gun Violence Archive mass-shooting dataset.
Population Makes the Gap Even Wider
Population size does not explain Chicago’s position.
New York City has more than three times Chicago’s population, yet Chicago recorded nearly four times as many mass shootings in the supplied GVA dataset.
Chicago vs New York City
Killed: 76 vs 14 → Chicago 443% higher
Injured: 478 vs 119 → Chicago 302% higher
Total victims: 554 vs 133 → Chicago 317% higher
Los Angeles also has a larger population than Chicago, yet Chicago recorded more than four times as many mass shootings.
Chicago vs Los Angeles
Killed: 76 vs 19 → Chicago 300% higher
Injured: 478 vs 106 → Chicago 351% higher
Total victims: 554 vs 125 → Chicago 343% higher
Adjusted for population, the disparity becomes substantially greater: Chicago’s mass-shooting incident rate in this dataset is roughly 10 times New York City’s and six times Los Angeles’, using recent population estimates.
Numbers also add context to broad claims that crime is falling in Chicago.
Decline in an overall crime index does not mean every category of violence is declining.
Chicago’s own recent violence data has shown increases in fatal shootings, homicide victimizations and multi-victim shootings even while broader violent-crime totals declined.
Crime may be down according to some broad measures and narratives.
Mass shootings in this GVA dataset tell a different story.
Crime Confidence Index™ puts these numbers into a larger context, measuring what violence means for people living, working and moving through Chicago.
All numbers count. Crime Confidence Index™ tells you what they mean.
Gun Violence Archive Mass Shootings USA
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/mass-shooting
