The surprising stats show the city is worse off now in the category of murder than at the height of the era that has driven Chicago’s reputation for almost a century, Capone’s “gangland” Chicago.
Chicago murder rate far worse than during Al Capone ‘gangland’ days | abc7chicago.com
President Obama plans to fix this problem in his home town – using a dual strategy
1. Ignore it.
2. Confiscate legally owned guns from law-abiding citizens in crime-free Wyoming.
Spot on Steven.
I verified the rate was not skewed by population growth, or by annexation (geographic growth)
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/53.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Largest_US_cities_graph.png