Would you Visit a City Where 1,000 + people are often murdered each year?
WELCOME TO CHICAGO

Tho I now live in Southern California, Chicago's TV station, WGN comes in loud and clear. And lately, every time the Chicago newscast is on, the first 5 or 10 minutes is spent reporting the killings in Chicago. Often followed up by a video of a hurried get-together of concerned citizens from the neighborhood (together with the local priest or minister) they march around shouting at Mayor Daley to do something to stop the violence. The thing is, the picture that I'm watching day after day, it seems lately, is the same news, the same marching, the same hollaring at the same Mayor that I've been experiencing during the years I spent in Chicago.

Take a look at this newspaper page from the Chicago Tribune. It's from a few years back. Click on the photo and enlarge the page, and then read the names and ages. It's pathetic! Every name of everyone killed during one year is listed, from the tiniest, to the teenager, to the middle-aged, to the oldest. They're all there! Hundreds and hundreds of names.

Mayor Daley is letting the permits fly for the mammoth construction of buildings and the tearing down of dilapitated neighborhoods. But he just can''t seem to stem the tide of violence in the city. What gives? Others cities do.