Chicago Crash Map and Recent Accident Trends
The most recent police-reported reported collisions in Chicago, plotted from official open data — locations, injuries and contributing factors. This is government-published crash data, not news coverage.
Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. Located on the western shore of Lake Michigan, it is the third-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 2.74 million at the 2020 census. The Chicago metropolitan area has approximately 9.62 million residents according to the 2020 census and is the third-largest metropolitan area in the country.
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· source: Chicago Data Portal — Traffic Crashes (CPD)
Counts are recorded crashes, not risk: without traffic volumes a busy street will always show more crashes, so nothing here ranks places as safe or dangerous. Records are matched by Socrata row id (:id); a record the source edits is revised, never counted twice. How this data is handled.
Recorded Crashes, Page 36
5,000 records from 2026-09-25 to 2026-10-12, newest first. Last successful import 2026-10-13T11:16 UTC.
| Date | Hour | Location | Injured | Killed | Collision type or factor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | 16:00 | 31ST ST | 0 | 0 | Failing To Yield Right-of-way |
| 2026-10-05 | 16:00 | ELSTON AVE | 0 | 0 | Following Too Closely |
| 2026-10-05 | 16:00 | PULASKI RD | 1 | 0 | Unable To Determine |
| 2026-10-05 | 16:00 | CALIFORNIA AVE | 0 | 0 | Following Too Closely |
| 2026-10-05 | 16:00 | HALSTED ST | 1 | 0 | Following Too Closely |
| 2026-10-05 | 16:00 | GARFIELD BLVD | 0 | 0 | Unable To Determine |
| 2026-10-05 | 16:00 | WESTERN BLVD | 0 | 0 | Following Too Closely |
| 2026-10-05 | 16:00 | 71ST ST | 2 | 0 | Following Too Closely |
| 2026-10-05 | 16:00 | UNION AVE | 0 | 0 | Unable To Determine |
| 2026-10-05 | 16:00 | 87TH ST | 0 | 0 | Following Too Closely |
| 2026-10-05 | 16:00 | NAGLE AVE | 0 | 0 | Following Too Closely |
| 2026-10-05 | 16:00 | NORTH AVE | 0 | 0 | Unable To Determine |
| 2026-10-05 | 16:00 | DEVON AVE | 1 | 0 | Failing To Reduce Speed To Avoid Crash |
| 2026-10-05 | 16:00 | LAKE SHORE DR | 0 | 0 | Improper Lane Usage |
| 2026-10-05 | 16:00 | 43RD ST | 1 | 0 | Not Applicable |
| 2026-10-05 | 16:00 | KINGSTON AVE | 0 | 0 | Unable To Determine |
| 2026-10-05 | 16:00 | INDIANA AVE | 0 | 0 | Unable To Determine |
| 2026-10-05 | 16:00 | ASHLAND AVE | 1 | 0 | Unable To Determine |
| 2026-10-05 | 16:00 | CENTRAL AVE | 1 | 0 | Failing To Yield Right-of-way |
| 2026-10-05 | 16:00 | 111TH ST | 0 | 0 | Unable To Determine |
| 2026-10-05 | 16:00 | ADDISON ST | 0 | 0 | Improper Overtaking/passing |
| 2026-10-05 | 16:00 | ROOSEVELT RD | 1 | 0 | Unable To Determine |
| 2026-10-05 | 16:00 | KINGSBURY ST | 0 | 0 | Unable To Determine |
| 2026-10-05 | 16:00 | 103RD ST | 0 | 0 | Unable To Determine |
| 2026-10-05 | 16:00 | DAMEN AVE | 0 | 0 | Unable To Determine |
| 2026-10-05 | 15:00 | OAK PARK AVE | 0 | 0 | Unable To Determine |
| 2026-10-05 | 15:00 | HALSTED ST | 1 | 0 | Unable To Determine |
| 2026-10-05 | 15:00 | HOMAN AVE | 0 | 0 | Failing To Yield Right-of-way |
| 2026-10-05 | 15:00 | RIDGEWAY AVE | 0 | 0 | Following Too Closely |
| 2026-10-05 | 15:00 | MONTROSE AVE | 0 | 0 | Failing To Yield Right-of-way |
| 2026-10-05 | 15:00 | 119TH ST | 0 | 0 | Improper Overtaking/passing |
| 2026-10-05 | 15:00 | 115TH ST | 0 | 0 | Following Too Closely |
| 2026-10-05 | 15:00 | ST LOUIS AVE | 0 | 0 | Not Applicable |
| 2026-10-05 | 15:00 | PULASKI RD | 0 | 0 | Failing To Yield Right-of-way |
| 2026-10-05 | 15:00 | PULASKI RD | 0 | 0 | Unable To Determine |
| 2026-10-05 | 15:00 | 25TH ST | 0 | 0 | Following Too Closely |
| 2026-10-05 | 15:00 | BALBO AVE | 0 | 0 | Unable To Determine |
| 2026-10-05 | 15:00 | KEDZIE BLVD | 0 | 0 | Road Engineering/surface/marking Defects |
| 2026-10-05 | 15:00 | IRVING PARK RD | 0 | 0 | Failing To Yield Right-of-way |
| 2026-10-05 | 15:00 | AUSTIN AVE | 0 | 0 | Failing To Yield Right-of-way |
| 2026-10-05 | 15:00 | ASHLAND AVE | 0 | 0 | Driving Skills/knowledge/experience |
| 2026-10-05 | 15:00 | AVENUE H | 0 | 0 | Unable To Determine |
| 2026-10-05 | 15:00 | HARDING AVE | 1 | 0 | Unable To Determine |
| 2026-10-05 | 15:00 | EXCHANGE AVE | 1 | 0 | Equipment - Vehicle Condition |
| 2026-10-05 | 15:00 | 95TH ST | 0 | 0 | Failing To Yield Right-of-way |
| 2026-10-05 | 15:00 | CLARK ST | 0 | 0 | Failing To Yield Right-of-way |
| 2026-10-05 | 15:00 | CHICAGO AVE | 0 | 0 | Not Applicable |
| 2026-10-05 | 15:00 | ST LOUIS AVE | 0 | 0 | Following Too Closely |
| 2026-10-05 | 15:00 | 59TH ST | 0 | 0 | Following Too Closely |
| 2026-10-05 | 15:00 | COMMERCIAL AVE | 0 | 0 | Failing To Yield Right-of-way |
Accident news in and near Chicago
28 news reports in the last 30 days, placed by city name in the headline — a separate layer from the police records above.
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Data: Chicago Data Portal — Traffic Crashes (CPD), updated 2026-10-13 (public government data). How records are imported, deduplicated and labelled: methodology. See also accidents in United States and US road deaths by year.