The worse thing about Chicago is that it's one of the highest murder cities in the USA. It used to be the highest in the world at one point. It's not so bad around the downtown area but again past 35th is where the shootings happen. Guns are not illegal here, it's easy to get...
Chicago Murder Rate By Neighborhood Sadly, some areas of the city are much more dangerous than others, as you well know, and everyone wants to know which are the best and worst. Therefore, I always roll up the data by neighborhood (technically community area but people often colloquially refe...
Movie Review: The Little Things with Denzel Washington and Rami Malek The HBO Max release of The Little Things starring Denzel Washington and Rami Malek is far better than the inadequate reviews it is getting from he movie “pros” detailing a deeper story about a serial murder mystery and the...
An agent-based model (ABM) is proposed to represent and analyze the self-organization of crime spread in the city of Chicago. Despite the overall national reduction in crime, Chicago's crime is still double the national average. And in the past year, Chicago's murder rate has been the wor...
Retired suburban chief wants murder of police officers turned into federal offense Bond set for man who struck, killed Chicago tow truck driver in hit-and-run in Wisconsin 2-year-old boy shot, critically wounded on Chicago's West Side Woman sexually assaulted during home invasion in West ...
I look him in the eye and I say, “What are you in for?” And he says, “First-degree murder.” And that is a conversation stopper if I’ve ever heard one. But I have to say something. So I ask, “When’s your trial?” And he says, “Well, hopefully not for another two ...
(Shootings also fell after theMarch 2012 shooting deathof 22-year-old Rekia Boyd by an off-duty police officer but subsequently rose again.) From the month in which the McDonald video was released through April of this year, the annual rate of shootings has remained lower than at...
On January 15, 1947, the horribly mutilated body of the “Black Dahlia,” a.k.a. aspiring 22-year-old actress Elizabeth Short, was found cut in half in a Los Angeles-area open field. Still unsolved to this day, her slaying remains one of the most infamous murder cases in the history...
Chicago Heights: Little Joe College, the Outfit, and the Fall of Sam Giancana, is part rags-to-riches story, part murder mystery, and part redemption tale. Hager, with author David T. Miller, juxtaposes his early years in West Virginia with his life in crime, intricately weaving his own ...
Properties sold for $1.5 million or more would pay a 3% transfer tax, four times the current rate. Supporters have estimated theBring Chicago Home referendumwould generate an additional $100 million in annual tax revenue. The money would go toward the city's efforts to fight homelessness....