Other Offense in Chicago — Crime Statistics 2026
30,078 indexed reports · 6.8% of Chicago incidents · 7 arrests in recent sample.
What is other offense in Chicago?
Other offense is Chicago PD’s catch-all category for crimes that don’t fit the major IUCR groups — violations of orders of protection, telephone threats, harassment by electronic means, parole violations, gun-offender registration violations, and similar charges. Despite the generic name, most reports here involve a specific Illinois criminal statute.
In the open data these appear under miscellaneous non-index IUCR codes. The most common descriptions in Chicago are order-of-protection violations, harassing communications, and weapons-registration offenses — reports that matter for victims but don’t map to an FBI index crime.
LocalCrimeVault has 30,078 other offense reports indexed in Chicago — 6.8% of all tracked incidents. The most recent full month on record (July 2026) logged 701 reports, down from 1,139 in June 2026.
Latest reports
| Date | Offense | Arrest? | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 2026 | Other Offense | No | View → |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Other Offense | Yes | View → |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Other Offense | No | View → |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Other Offense | No | View → |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Other Offense | Yes | View → |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Other Offense | Yes | View → |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Other Offense | No | View → |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Other Offense | No | View → |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Other Offense | No | View → |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Other Offense | Yes | View → |
Other offense types in Chicago
Top categories citywide: Theft (101,882), Battery (79,633), Criminal Damage (48,659).
How common is other offense in Chicago?
Other Offense accounts for 30,078 indexed police reports in Chicago (6.8% of tracked offenses). Data comes from City of Chicago Open Data — Crimes.
- How many other offense incidents are in Chicago?
- LocalCrimeVault has 30,078 indexed other offense reports in Chicago, sourced from City of Chicago Open Data — Crimes.
- What share of other offense reports lead to arrest?
- In our most recent sample of 28 other offense records, 7 (25.0%) include an arrest flag in the source data.
- How often is other offense data updated?
- Chicago crime records sync nightly from the open-data portal. New reports appear on type and incident pages after the sync and deploy pipeline completes.