Description:
This site features "the Chicago Police Department Homicide Record Index — chronicling 11,000??homicides in the city" from 1870 through 1930. Use the pull-down menus in the interactive database to search the records by factors such as date of offense, type of accident, number of victims, method of killing, victim/defendant relationship, and outcome of defendant's trial. Includes related essays on Chicago history, interviews, a bibliography, and more. From the Northwestern University School of Law. |