Two Cities in Illinois are Among the Nation's Top 10 Most Dangerous

Two Illinois cities ranked among the nation’s Top 10 most dangerous cities with populations under 200,000, according to a new analysis of the latest FBI crime data.

Law Street Media’s “Crime in America 2016″ rankings, which uses the FBI’s 2014 violent crimes statistics, show crime rates nationwide dropped by roughly 1 percent over the year.

The rankings also show Illinois is one of three states to have multiple cities appear on the list, one of which is a new addition.

From Law Street on its methodology:

Law Street used the FBI’s four major violent crime categories – murders, aggravated assaults, robberies, and rapes – to create a standard measure of violent-crimes-per-100,000 people among all cities reporting crime data to the FBI. This allows year-to-year and city-to-city comparisons. To derive the ratio, the total number of violent crimes reported to the FBI is divided by the city’s population, with the result then multiplied by 100,000. The formula for this calculation is shown below:

Violent Crime Rate = (Total Violent Crime in a City/City Population) x 100,000. Crime ratings were further broken down by population, with 200,000 used as the dividing point.

Here are the Top 10 most dangerous cities with populations under 200,000, according to Law Street.

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