List of social/environment/economic conditions and events
| State finance | Date | Key | Legal intervention deaths | Date | Key |
| State of Illinois without budget—agencies use credit | 15 July | 1 | Eric Garner killed | 14 July | 1 |
| Stop gap budget in place | 16 July | 2 | Michael Brown killed | 14 August | 2 |
| Budget passed | 17 July | 3 | Freddy Grey killed | 15 April | 3 |
| Social services | Dash cam footage of Laquon McDonald’s death released | 15 November | 4 | ||
| One Chicago summer youth programme starts | 12 June | 1 | Policing practice | ||
| Cure Violence (street outreach) programme budget cut | 15 January | 2 | Shot detection technology deployed | 12 January | 1 |
| Rehab programmes close | 16 January | 3 | Gun buy-back event | 12 June | 2 |
| Detox programme closes | 17 January | 4 | Strategic subjects list | 13 January | 3 |
| Cure violence programme budget restored | 17 January | 5 | Mass gang member arrest | 13 January | 4 |
| 40 000 lose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits | 17 November | 6 | Stop and frisk consent decree | 16 January | 5 |
| Education | Gun buy-back event | 1 April | 6 | ||
| CPS graduation rate 57% | 11 June | 1 | Gun buy-back event | 16 October | 7 |
| CPS teacher strike | 12 Septemper | 2 | Gun buy-back event | 18 June | 8 |
| 54 CPS schools close | 13 June | 3 | |||
| CPS graduation rate 66% | 14 June | 4 | |||
| IL school disciplinary code revised | 15 August | 5 | |||
| CPS graduation rate 78% | 17 June | 6 |