As Domestic Violence Surges, City Funding To Fight Crisis Set To Drop Dramatically – Block Club Chicago

Domestic homicides are up 18 percent over last year, according to the city’s violence reduction dashboard. Fatal domestic shootings have increased by 46 percent over the same time period, and calls to the Illinois domestic violence hotline have more than doubled since before the pandemic. Yet city funding for gender-based violence services is set to drop dramatically, as COVID-era federal funding runs out and as funds from a tax on short-term housing rentals are depleted.