The Joint Committee on Health and Human Relations and Public Safety meets to discuss the 2023-2024 hate crimes report on Thursday, June 27, 2024. [Livestream]

The war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza has led to an increase in antisemitism and Islamophobia, the Chicago Commission on Human Relations (CCHR) concluded in its first annual report under the amended hate crimes ordinance. 

The City Council Joint Committee on Public Safety and Health and Human Relations received a presentation Thursday on the annual report, which covered reported instances of hate in 2023 and up to June 13 this year.