(Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune via AP)As a brutal year continues in Chicago, the city’s spiking homicide numbers have resulted in grim milestones and headlines. At its current pace, Chicago could have more than 730 homicides this year, possibly eclipsing the city’s highest death toll in nearly two decades. Chicago had 78 homicides in October alone, police say, a number that most major cities nationwide did not reach through the entire first half of the year. The uptick in bloodshed in Chicago has drawn national attention, as it is one of numerous big cities whose homicide totals have increased recently. This increase nationwide last year was driven by a handful of big cities such as Chicago, Baltimore and Washington, which had most of the uptick in homicides.

Source: Washington Post November 01, 2016 17:29 UTC