- It's well-known that gun violence is an issue for many inner cities across the U.S. But Chicago, in particular, has the most alarming rates, almost double that of New York City.
Since 2008, 80 percent of the 530 young people under the age of 21 felled by gun violence lived in the city's South, Southwest and West sides, which are heavily populated with African-Americans and Latinos. Ironically, only one-third of the city's population lives in these areas. Englewood, an area in the city's South Side, stood out the most. Their murder rate is five times that of the rest of the city.
The headline at the link claims Chicago has the highest murder rate in the nation, but we aren't sure if that's a per capita measure or if it only includes cities over a certain threshold of population. Regardless, we are looking at a particularly bloody winter. Who knows what the spring may hold?