Jul 2023

Violence Reduction Dashboard

The Violence Reduction Dashboard is hosted on the City of Chicago’s website and is associated with the City’s Open Data Portal.

To view and use the dashboard, click here.

Related Resources
Webinar: Overview of the City of Chicago’s Violence Reduction Dashboard
Webinar

Webinar: Overview of the City of Chicago’s Violence Reduction Dashboard

Jun 2025

The Crime Lab hosted a webinar that explored the City of Chicago’s Violence Reduction Dashboard—a publicly available tool launched to support efforts to reduce gun violence through transparent, real-time data.

Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence
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Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence

Apr 2025

Crime Lab Pritzker Director Jens Ludwig authored a book that argues the lack of progress in reducing gun violence ultimately stems from our having misunderstood the nature of the problem, and that behavioral science gives us a new way to understand – and solve – gun violence in America.

Local Gun Violence Dashboards
Data Tool

Local Gun Violence Dashboards

Jan 2025

Chicago’s Violence Reduction Dashboard, launched by the Crime Lab in 2021, is featured in a toolkit created by Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund as a part of its Gun Violence Data Fellowship.

Valuing the benefits of reducing firearm violence in the United States
Academic Paper

Valuing the benefits of reducing firearm violence in the United States

Jan 2025

This paper estimates the monetized value of the impact of reducing firearm violence and how that value is distributed across the population.

Latest Updates

Curbing gun violence in Chicago doesn’t require that we first end poverty
Op-Ed
Chicago Tribune
Oct 2025

Curbing gun violence in Chicago doesn’t require that we first end poverty

Crime Lab leaders Katie Hill and Jens Ludwig penned an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune highlighting the root causes of gun violence and the growing body of research showing that increased neighborhood vibrancy generates surprisingly large changes in the prevalence of gun violence, by as much as 30%.

A fighting chance
Media Mention
The University of Chicago Magazine
Oct 2025

A fighting chance

In The University of Chicago Magazine’s Fall ’25 issue, Susie Allen profiles Crime Lab Pritzker Director Jens Ludwig to discuss his book, “Unforgiving Places,” which challenges conventional wisdom on gun violence and suggests new approaches to solving the problem.

Researchers: Violence intervention and policing should complement, not compete against, each other
Op-Ed
Chicago Tribune
Oct 2025

Researchers: Violence intervention and policing should complement, not compete against, each other

The Crime Lab’s Executive Director Katie Hill and Pritzker Director Jens Ludwig discuss evidence-based solutions to crime, including violence intervention and data-driven policing, in an op-ed for the Chicago Tribune.