Ranking
Hate crime in Illinois
Anti-Black or African American ranks first with 77 incidents in 2025, according to the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer.
Agencies in Illinois reported 377 hate crime incidents to the FBI in 2025, the 8th most of any state. The largest single bias was anti-Black or African American at 77. This is a count of what was reported, not a rate.
Incidents by the bias recorded against them · 2025
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| Rank | Name | incidents | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anti-Black or African American | 77 | 20.4% |
| 2 | Anti-Jewish | 53 | 14.1% |
| 3 | Anti-White | 50 | 13.3% |
| 4 | Anti-Hispanic or Latino | 38 | 10.1% |
| 5 | Anti-Gay (Male) | 29 | 7.7% |
| 6 | Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group) | 19 | 5.0% |
| 7 | Anti-Multiple Races, Group | 18 | 4.8% |
| 8 | Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry | 17 | 4.5% |
| 9 | Anti-Sikh | 8 | 2.1% |
| 10 | Anti-Transgender | 8 | 2.1% |
| 11 | Multiple Bias | 8 | 2.1% |
| 12 | Anti-Asian | 6 | 1.6% |
| 13 | Anti-Arab | 5 | 1.3% |
| 14 | Anti-Female | 5 | 1.3% |
| 15 | Anti-Gender Non-Conforming | 5 | 1.3% |
| 16 | Anti-Islamic (Muslim) | 5 | 1.3% |
| 17 | Anti-Hindu | 3 | 0.8% |
| 18 | Anti-Lesbian (Female) | 3 | 0.8% |
| 19 | Anti-Other Religion | 3 | 0.8% |
| 20 | Anti-Physical Disability | 3 | 0.8% |
| 21 | Anti-Protestant | 3 | 0.8% |
| 22 | Anti-Catholic | 2 | 0.5% |
| 23 | Anti-Eastern Orthodox (Russian, Greek, Other) | 2 | 0.5% |
| 24 | Anti-Mental Disability | 2 | 0.5% |
| 25 | Anti-American Indian or Alaska Native | 1 | 0.3% |
| 26 | Anti-Heterosexual | 1 | 0.3% |
| 27 | Anti-Jehovah's Witness | 1 | 0.3% |
| 28 | Anti-Male | 1 | 0.3% |
| 29 | Anti-Other Christian | 1 | 0.3% |
What this data cannot show
- Reporting is voluntary. An agency that submitted nothing is indistinguishable here from one that had nothing to submit, so a zero is not an absence of hate crime and a rise is not necessarily a rise in incidents.
- These are counts, not rates. Dividing by population would present differences in reporting as differences in incidence, and the FBI publishes no participation share for this collection that would let us say by how much two states differ.
- An incident recorded with more than one bias is counted once, under "Multiple Bias", rather than under each. That is what lets the biases sum to the total.
- Incidents, offenses and locations count different things. The same incidents produced more offenses than incidents, because one incident can carry several.
- An incident is as the reporting agency classified it at the time. It is not a charge, a prosecution or a conviction.
- Illinois is ranked against other states on the count alone. A state where most agencies participate and one where few do are not comparable, and the FBI publishes nothing that would let us say by how much they differ.
- Biases against which Illinois recorded no incident are not listed. That is an absence in the reporting, which is not the same as an absence of hate crime.
Related
- Hate crime in the United States
- Hate crime in Massachusetts
- Hate crime in North Carolina
- Reported crime
- Most dangerous cities in Illinois
- Prison population
- Arrests by race, sex and age
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- Immigration courts
- Farm program payments
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- Public schools
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- Housing
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- College athletics
- Federal civilian workforce
- The Illinois Factbook entry
Sources
- FBI Crime Data Explorer — Hate Crime — Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice Information Services Division · Public domain — U.S. Government work · retrieved September 19, 2026
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