Crime & Safety
Illinois Has Three of the Midwest's Top 10 'Most Dangerous' Metro Areas
Violent crime rates in three of the state's metropolitan statistical areas are among the highest in the Midwest.
Illinois is home to three of the Midwest’s Top 10 most dangerous metropolitan areas, including the No. 1 most violent, according to the latest installment in Law Street Media’s “Crime in America 2016” rankings.
The legal policy and news website’s analysis used 2014 violent crime data from the FBI to rank the safest and most dangerous metro areas in each region of the country.
With a violent crime rate of 767 per 100,000 people, Springfield, Ill., is the Midwest’s most dangerous metro area and No. 4 overall in the U.S, according to Law Street.
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Illinois and Michigan were the only two states in the Midwest to have three metropolitan statistical areas appear on the Top 10 most dangerous list.
Here’s the complete list of the 10 most dangerous metro areas in the Midwest, including each MSA’s violent crime rate and the number of murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults in 2014.
