This chef was just executed during an armed robbery in the Loop by the Chicago Board of Trade Building at 11pm.
https://cwbchicago.com/2022/09/man-charged-murder-robbery-ch...
https://cwbchicago.com/2022/09/man-charged-murder-robbery-ch...
It's a big city. People get mugged here. I'm not claiming otherwise.
But when people talk about out-of-control Chicago crime, they're talking about the shootings, 100%. This isn't San Francisco. There isn't a narrative about crime here where like, nobody can operate a Walgreens here because of organized shoplifting rings (I'm sure they exist!), or out-of-control homeless tent encampments and street drug use. The narrative here is gangs randomly and prolifically shooting people in gang squabbles.
And that narrative plays out in Lawndale, Austin, Garfield Park, Englewood, Grand Crossing, and Chatham, not Lincoln Park, Lakeview, Logan Square, and Bucktown.
https://cwbchicago.com/2022/09/four-months-after-being-shot-...
https://cwbchicago.com/2021/10/more-than-50-shots-fired-outs...
https://cwbchicago.com/2021/10/online-sale-meet-ups-turn-int...
https://cwbchicago.com/2022/03/woman-72-shot-while-walking-i...
https://cwbchicago.com/2021/10/boy-16-critically-wounded-in-...
https://cwbchicago.com/2022/05/robbers-who-shot-a-man-in-lin...
https://cwbchicago.com/2022/08/man-who-killed-partygoer-at-l...
https://cwbchicago.com/2021/02/7-teen-accused-of-shooting-dr...
https://cwbchicago.com/2021/12/woman-shot-during-a-robbery-b...
https://cwbchicago.com/2021/03/shots-fired-near-mayors-home-...
https://cwbchicago.com/2021/08/2-shot-outside-diversey-river...
https://cwbchicago.com/2021/10/video-shows-wicker-park-mass-...
https://cwbchicago.com/2021/12/bucktown-restaurant-owner-is-...
https://cwbchicago.com/2021/12/shots-fired-during-bucktown-r...
Your theory that the existance of white people in an area establishes an anti-violence forcefield is not sound.
Also Lakeview is not a "white neighaborhood"
• White 77.6% • Black 4% • Hispanic 8.6% • Asian 6.9% • Other 2.9%
You get that I've, like, been to Lakeview a bunch, right? Like, I used to live there? My favorite bar in the world is there? I never know, when I'm talking to people on HN, if Chicago is an abstraction to them and they're just trying to pull facts out of Google or whatever.
Everywhere in the US maybe. I couldn't imagine normalizing this sort of behavior. Peace is definitely a huge blessing that many people take for granted.