CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago Police Department released the city's latest crime numbers overnight. DOWNTOWN — The city is on track to have 700 murders in 2016, Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez said Wednesday.

January 2016 was the deadliest start to a year in 16 years. The Wilson’s were beaten to death inside of their sycamore home back in 2016.

BREAKING: John Hurst arrested for the double murders of 85 year old Patricia Wilson and her son Robert Wilson. Data is extracted from the Chicago Police Department's CLEAR (Citizen Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting) system. The number of homicides stood at 563 - a decrease of 90 compared to 2017. The 2018 crime rate in Chicago, IL was 469 (City-Data.com crime index), which was 1.7 times greater than the U.S. average. Murder, rape, and robbery are common violent crimes in the city, and the occurrences of such incidents are documented by the Chicago Police Department and indexed in annual crime reports. Chicago's modern history of gang violence, especially on its West and South sides, goes back to the 1960s. By Matthew Cella and ... but that increase has largely been driven by street violence in Chicago, Baltimore and the nation's capital. It was higher than in 94.6% of U.S. cities. A member of the Chicago Police Department works the scene of a shooting on the 5700 block of South Calumet Avenue on Nov. 5, 2016, in Chicago. Chicago hits grim milestone of 700 murders for 2016 and the year's not over. That would be the highest number of homicides in Chicago in nearly 20 years. This dataset reflects reported incidents of crime (with the exception of murders where data exists for each victim) that occurred in the City of Chicago from 2001 to present, minus the most recent seven days. Chicago experienced a major rise in violent crime starting in the late 1960s, a decline in overall crime in the 2000s, and then a rise in murders in 2016.

Race and Homicide in America, by the Numbers ... 2016. The 2018 Chicago crime rate fell by 8% compared to 2017. Aug. 2016: Chicago's Bloodiest Month in Two Decades 90 murders, 384 shootings, 472 shooting victims took place citywide in August.