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  2. University Park, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    University Park is a village in Will County with a small portion in Cook County in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is a south suburb of Chicago. The village is one of the region's few planned communities; it was developed in the 1960s as Wood Hill, then Park Forest South, and finally University Park. Governors State University was established in ...

  3. Rogers Park, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Rogers Park. /  42.0100°N 87.6700°W  / 42.0100; -87.6700. Rogers Park is the first of Chicago's 77 community areas. Located 9 miles (14 km) from the Loop, it is on the city's far north side on the shore of Lake Michigan. The neighborhood is culturally diverse and features green spaces, early 20th century architecture, live theater, bars ...

  4. Timeline of organized crime in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The car was impounded by the police. [174] [175] May 3, 1962 – Chicago-area Burglar Jimmy Miraglia went missing. [175] May 15, 1962 – The bodies of burglars Jimmy Miraglia and Billy McCarthy were found in the trunk of a car on west 55th Street. They were badly beaten and their throats were slit.

  5. Crime in St. Louis - Wikipedia

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    For 2016, the population of St. Louis was reported as 314,507. Crime in St. Louis includes an overview of crime both in the city of St. Louis and in the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area. Crime in the city increased from the 1960s through the early 1990s as measured by the index crime rate. Despite decreasing crime, rates of violent crime and ...

  6. Crime in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Policing. In 2019, Illinois had 846 state and local law enforcement agencies. Those agencies employed a total of 48,240 staff. Of the total staff, 38,539 were sworn officers (defined as those with general arrest powers). Illinois has 303 sworn officers per 100,000 residents.

  7. West Garfield Park, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Crime. The neighborhood's 21 murders in 2014 occurred at a rate of 116 per 100,000, giving this neighborhood the highest murder rate in Chicago. In a city that sees 2,000 shootings per annum, they occur in West Garfield Park at a rate of 411 per 100,000. In 2016, the violence increased further, with a total of 31 murders, resulting in a murder ...

  8. Crime in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Overview. Chicago saw a major rise in violent crime starting in the late 1960s. Murders in the city peaked in 1974, with 970 murders when the city's population was over three million, resulting in a murder rate of around 29 per 100,000, and again in 1992, with 943 murders when the city had fewer than three million people, resulting in a murder rate of 34 murders per 100,000 citizens.

  9. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Wikipedia

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    Website. illinois .edu. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ( UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) [12] [13] is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. It is the flagship institution of the University of Illinois system and was established in 1867.