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The Milwaukee Journal provides that same kind of tracking information. This is a good tool.
But what I was talking about was coming up with homicide rates, at the close of each year, for each neighborhood. As opposed to a rate for the whole city. Actually, both should be done.
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I would add that anyone really interested in what has been going on in Chicago should read the some of the excellent coverage that one has come to expect from the Chicago Tribune.
I noticed the author of the article stated she was middle-class in Chicago. On its South Side. Yet exposed to the gang culture and violence.
That's not uncommon in the Midwestern black middle-class. The Sherman Park neighborhood in Milwaukee I mentioned earlier that had a higher homicide rate than one Rio favela during a same year, is traditionally a middle-class, black, neighborhood. Further towards St. Joseph hospital being more whites and Orthodox Jews. But around the park area and east of the park is about as crime ridden as any middle-class neighborhood in a developing nation like Mexico and Brazil I would say.
I also noticed she mentioned scuffing the shoes in Chicago during the early '90s could have led to death. When I mention to people unfamiliar with Midwestern hoods that lightly brushing against someone at a black nightclub would likely (at least back then) cause a confrontation and possibly a fight, they think I'm exaggerating.
But this black woman's own published article from her middle-class life in Chicago exonerates me.
I loved how the black middle-class of Virginia chilled out, and shocked me how a big bump in a nightclub would result in a black guy saying, "Excuse me." Flabbergasted me. They were just learning of the Chicago based gangs in the early '90s when I was in Virginia. The Vice Lords had just entered Portsmouth around that time. But they had already had a long history in Milwaukee.
I wouldn't hesitate to go to Chicago...I will never ever cross the border for any reason.
In Chigago, you may get caught up in some truff warfare, but In Mexico, they seek you out. In mexico you never know who the bad guy is...Cop, Judge or street thug.
"In mexico, you never know who the bad guy is... Cop, Judge or street thug."
Obviously you have never lived in Illinois, which is akin to a third world nation with its level of corruption in the political and court system. Bribery is considered routine there.
I would offer that MOST of Chicago is pretty safe, and the "safe" areas have increased in size since the 1970s. The area around Comisky, Univ of Chicago, and the Ancient History Museum used to be very dicey. Now, it is much better. The "Gold Coast", with the exception of a few isolated incidents, is very safe. Caprini Green is gone and areas encroaching on the northern part of the south side are being "gentrified".
However, the south central and south east side have become worse. The South Side needs to hire a guy like they did in Benton Harbor.
On another note, Chicago received a record or near-record 46 million visitors in 2012. People aren't exactly shying away from the city. The violence in Chicago is mainly confined to a relatively few neighborhoods. It's still quite sad though.
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