CTA · Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026

Violent crime on the Red Line, last 12 months

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

222

incidents on the Red Line

At 33 stations

1 per 200,000

entries (rides) per report (est.)

44.7M entries · Ridership published through Aug 31, 2026; Sep 1 – Nov 3, 2026 estimated.

349

same dates a year earlier

Nov 4, 2024 – Nov 3, 2025 · -127 (-36%) this year · 1 per 200,000 vs 1 per 120,000 rides (est.)

Red Line

Entries per report, darker = more oftenover 400,000200,000–400,000100,000–200,00050,000–100,000under 50,000Size = incidents. none. outside Chicago (no CPD data).

Red Line

Incidents: 222
Rate: 1 per 200,000 rides
Stations: 33
Most incidents: 69th (19)

Homicide 1
Criminal sexual assault 12
Robbery 95
Aggravated assault 34
Aggravated battery 80

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

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

+ Purple, Yellow	12	1 per 91,000
low ridership	1	1 per 370,000
	1	1 per 910,000
	3	1 per 360,000
	4	1 per 200,000
	0	none
	1	1 per 900,000
	2	1 per 310,000
	1	1 per 700,000
	1	1 per 680,000
+ Purple	5	1 per 300,000
	6	1 per 150,000
	2	1 per 1,100,000
+ Brown, Purple	11	1 per 240,000
+ Brown, Purple	5	1 per 520,000

	4	1 per 280,000
	3	1 per 590,000
	7	1 per 380,000
	13	1 per 190,000
	2	1 per 1,800,000
	2	1 per 670,000
	10	1 per 140,000
	3	1 per 270,000
+ Green, Orange	15	1 per 170,000

	7	1 per 260,000
	11	1 per 110,000
	0	none
	14	1 per 52,000
	15	1 per 38,000
	19	1 per 48,000
	12	1 per 99,000
	14	1 per 47,000
	16	1 per 120,000

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

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

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

222 reports of violent crime

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
Red Line222 reports	not rated: too few survey trips for this block	1 per 290,000	1 per 490,000	1 per 260,000	1 per 330,000	1 per 38,000
Garfield – 69th48 reports · via 63rd	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 7,600
79th – 95th/Dan Ryan42 reports · via 87th	not rated: too few survey trips for this block	fewer than 10 reports	fewer than 10 reports	fewer than 10 reports	1 per 80,000	fewer than 10 reports
Roosevelt – Sox-35th33 reports · via Cermak-Chinatown	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	fewer than 10 reports

Rides per report, darker = more dangerousover 400,000200,000–400,000100,000–200,00050,000–100,000under 50,000too 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 (401 of 472 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.