“You wouldn’t know it, but Chicago isn’t even close to the most dangerous city in America” by Eric Zorn
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Greetings from Chicago, the “murder capital of America,” a toddlin’ town that’s “gaining a national reputation for violence,” the site of a “mini-Holocaust” on the streets due to our “epidemic of gun violence,” all in the recent words of TV talking heads.
Chicago has become the go-to reference for anyone looking to evoke the everyday horrors of the streets in contrast to such high-profile but unusual incidents as the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in suburban Orlando, Fla., last year.