"...Do you win a prize for being #600?..."
700’s going to be very close. At the current rate it would only get to 696. Still more than 100 fewer than 2016.
This year Chicago is averaging about 26 murders per 100,000. Baltimore is at about 50 per 100,00. If Chicago was at the same rate as Baltimore, they would be up to 1350 murders this year.