From
          Prairie State Wire
        
        
        
            By  Metric Media News Service  |
          4 years ago
        
        
          Illinois last year recorded a homicide rate of 9.1 per 100,000 residents, compared to the U.S. rate of 6.5 per 100,000 and the state’s 5.5 rate a decade earlier, according to newly released FBI crime data.