{"id":107985,"date":"2025-10-24T09:53:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/fncs-bret-baier-challenges-pritzker-for-denying-chicago-has-the-highest-murder-rate-of-largest-us-cities-107985"},"modified":"2025-10-24T09:53:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:53:51","slug":"fncs-bret-baier-challenges-pritzker-for-denying-chicago-has-the-highest-murder-rate-of-largest-us-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/fncs-bret-baier-challenges-pritzker-for-denying-chicago-has-the-highest-murder-rate-of-largest-us-cities-107985","title":{"rendered":"FNC\u2019s Bret Baier challenges Pritzker for denying Chicago has the highest murder rate of largest US cities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fox News anchor Bret Baier confronted Gov. JB Pritzker, D-Ill.<\/a>, over Chicago\u2019s murder rate on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

During an exclusive Fox News Channel interview, Baier and Pritzker clashed over the murder rate in his city. The anchor<\/a> brought out research data to contest the governor\u2019s on-air claim that Chicago isn\u2019t even in the 30 American cities with the highest murder rates.<\/p>\n

“Well, here\u2019s a map \u2013\u2013 most populous U.S. cities: 17.47 per 100,000 population. Chicago is number one over Philadelphia, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, Phoenix, Los Angeles, New York, and San Diego,” Baier told Pritzker.<\/p>\n

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Baier began by discussing a Fox News crime map showing which of the top most populated U.S. cities have the highest murder rates.<\/p>\n

“Why does Chicago have the highest murder rate of all the big cities?” he asked.<\/p>\n

Pritzker replied by disputing that claim.<\/p>\n

“Well, we are not in the top 30, in terms of our murder rate,” he said. Baier tried to go into the data, but Pritzker kept talking.<\/p>\n

“Our murder rate has been cut in half over the last four years, and every year, it\u2019s gone down by double digits. And if you look at all of the violent crime over the last four years, they\u2019ve all gone down,” he said before Baier cut him off and read off Chicago\u2019s number one ranking on his map.<\/p>\n

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According to a report from Illinois research nonprofit, Wirepoints<\/a>, Chicago had the highest total number of murders in 2024 compared to all major U.S. cities in 2024, with 573 people killed that year alone. New York City came in second with 377, and Houston followed with 322 that same year.<\/p>\n

Among all major U.S. cities for that year, the research group found that Chicago\u2019s rate of 21.5 homicides per 100,000 people placed it at number six. The number one spot was St. Louis with 52.9 homicides per 100,000.<\/p>\n

St. Louis is a much smaller city, which is why its murder rate was higher than Chicago\u2019s in 2024, despite having five times less the number of total murders. The Missouri capital saw 149 murders in 2024.<\/p>\n

Though, like Baier\u2019s data showed, the group noted that Chicago\u2019s murder rate was the highest among the top 20 largest U.S. cities in 2024.<\/p>\n

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On Fox, Bret replied to Pritzker\u2019s assertion that Chicago wasn\u2019t even in the top 30 cities in terms of murder rate, suggesting the governor was talking about a different metric altogether.<\/p>\n

“Now, you\u2019re talking about violent crime,” the anchor said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pritzker attempted to dodge the point, saying, “Look, you can pull statistics up, I can too.”<\/p>\n

Baier shot back, “No, no, no, these are murders.”<\/p>\n

The governor replied, “I\u2019m explaining to you, our murder rate has been cut in half and \u2013\u2013 very importantly Bret \u2013\u2013 you gotta hear this: very importantly, we\u2019ve been doing the things that are necessary to bring crime down.”<\/p>\n

Chicago Police preliminary data<\/a> revealed that Chicago\u2019s total number of murders from Jan. to Aug. 2025 is one-third lower compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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