CHICAGO, IL - Murders and violent crimes rose in Chicago in 2016, according to data released Monday in the FBI's annual crime report. The statistics reveal Chicago's uptick in killings played a large role in 2016's nation-wide violent crime surge. According to the FBI report, there were 765 homicides in Chicago in 2016, compared to 478 murders in 2015, marking the deadliest year in nearly two decades.

Here is a comparison of the FBI's crime statistics in Chicago between 2015 and 2016: According to the FBI report, there were 24,663 violent crime offenses in Chicago in 2015, compared with 30,126 in 2016. The report finds there were more than 5,000 violent crime offenses in 2016 compared to 2015, and property crime also saw an uptick of more than 5,000offenses.

According to the Chicago Police Department, the city saw a surge in gun violence in 2016: there were 3,550 shooting incidents, and 4,331 shooting victims. The city's crime spike played a large role in the rise in violent crime across the U.S. for a second straight year, accounting for more than 20 percent of the nationwide murder rate increase. The 11 largest cities with populations greater than 1 million saw a 20 percent murder increase and a 7.2 percent violent crime increase.

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The data release comes as President Donald Trump continues to depict Chicago as a "war zone." In his inaugural address, the President described what he calls the "carnage" in many American cities;