CTA · Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026

Violent crime on the Blue Line, Clark/Lake to Chicago, last 12 months

Crime reports CPD logged at CTA stations, trains, buses and bus stops, from City of Chicago data.

41

incidents on the Blue Line, Clark/Lake to Chicago

At 3 stations of 33

1 per 130,000

entries (rides) per report (est.)

5.31M entries · Ridership published through Aug 31, 2026; Sep 1 – Nov 3, 2026 estimated.

66

same dates a year earlier

Nov 4, 2024 – Nov 3, 2025 · -25 (-38%) this year · 1 per 130,000 vs 1 per 74,000 rides (est.)

Blue Line · Clark/Lake to Chicago

Entries per report, darker = more oftenover 200,000100,000–200,00050,000–100,00025,000–50,000under 25,000Size = incidents. none. outside Chicago (no CPD data).

Blue Line · Clark/Lake to Chicago

Incidents: 41
Rate: 1 per 130,000 rides
Stations: 3
Most incidents: Clark/Lake (29)

Homicide 1
Criminal sexual assault 1
Robbery 6
Aggravated assault 1
Aggravated battery 7
Simple battery 25

Blue Line stations · all 33, Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026

Blue Line stations in order, incidents and rate per ride (1 incident per X entries)
Station	Incidents	Per ride


	6	1 per 110,000
	2	1 per 280,000
	7	1 per 190,000
	6	1 per 180,000
	10	1 per 270,000
+ 5 lines	29	1 per 130,000
	9	1 per 100,000

	3	1 per 220,000
	10	1 per 130,000
	9	1 per 160,000
	5	1 per 220,000
	3	1 per 370,000
	5	1 per 310,000
	4	1 per 280,000
	2	1 per 290,000
	3	1 per 290,000
	1	1 per 510,000
	0	none
low ridership	0	none
	4	1 per 190,000
	outside Chicago	–
	18	1 per 180,000

Per ride = 1 incident per X entries (rides). Ridership through Aug 31, 2026, later days estimated.

Time of day · Blue Line stretches and stations, rate per ride, Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026

Time of day on the Blue Line, by stretch or station, Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026

41 reports of violent crime incl. simple battery

Reports per ride by stretch and 4-hour block, Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026. Each cell reads 1 report per X rides; a dash means too few reports or not rated.
Stretch	12–4 am	4–8 am	8 am–noon	noon–4 pm	4–8 pm	8 pm–12 am
Blue Line172 reports	not rated: too few survey trips for this block	1 per 160,000	1 per 270,000	1 per 370,000	1 per 300,000	1 per 40,000
Cicero – Kedzie-Homan35 reports · via Pulaski	not rated: too few survey trips for this block	fewer than 10 reports	fewer than 10 reports	fewer than 10 reports	fewer than 10 reports	1 per 2,200
Clark/Lake – Chicago41 reports · via Grand	not rated: too few survey trips for this block	fewer than 10 reports	fewer than 10 reports	fewer than 10 reports	1 per 140,000	fewer than 10 reports

Rides per report, darker = more dangerousover 200,000100,000–200,00050,000–100,00025,000–50,000under 25,000too few reports or not rated

Each cell: 1 report per X rides in that block, Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026

About these numbers

Crime types. Violent = homicide, criminal sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault and aggravated battery. “Include simple battery” (on by default here, unlike other pages) adds battery without a weapon or serious injury.
Stations and lines. An “L” report counts at the nearest station within 150 m (901 of 1,041 in these dates); the rest count only in the All CTA and All “L” totals. A line or part of a line adds up its stations, so a report at a station several lines share (Clark/Lake, the Loop, Roosevelt) counts on each of them. Stations outside Chicago have no CPD data.
Per ride. “1 per X rides” = one incident for every X station entries or bus rides (entries, not riders; a shared station's entries count for each line); X = 1,000,000 ÷ incidents per million. Ridership is published monthly (through Aug 31, 2026); later days use the latest 12 months' daily average. Stations under 500K entries a year are flagged “low ridership”.
Buses. A bus report is shared among routes within 50 m, weighted by ridership. Route rates need 1M+ rides a year; the route table needs 2M+.
Time of day. The first tab rates each 4-hour block per ride: CTA publishes no hourly ridership, so riders in a block are estimated as entries (or bus boardings) × that block's share of CTA trips in CMAP's My Daily Travel survey; its ⓘ note has the details. The other tabs count reports by the hour the City recorded. Unknown times are often logged at midnight or noon, which lifts those hours.