Counties in Illinois with the Most Reported Rapes Per Capita

In 2013, there were 3,878 incidents of forcible rape reported to the police in Illinois, according to the Illinois State police (though there likely are more incidents that were not reported). That’s down about 10 percent from the year before, when there were 4,330 reported cases.

According to FBI Uniform Crime Reports, there were 79,770 rapes reported to the police in the U.S. in 2013. Counts for both Illinois and the U.S. as a whole were significantly down from 1998, when the U.S. saw 93,144 rapes reported and Illinois saw 6,156, according to Illinois State Police and FBI crime reports.

In 2013, the Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault served 18,048 survivors of sexual assault in Illinois. In 2014, that number dropped to 17,351. Not everyone in Illinois who experience sexual assault in those years sought help from the coalition or from any other organization and the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that only 38 percent of rapes and sexual assaults are reported to police.

Here are the counties with the most and fewest forcible rapes per 10,000 people, according to the latest available data from the Illinois State Police.

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