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As of December 31, 2016 the total number of homicides for the year in Chicago stands at 793. The city is in position to rack up the highest number of homicides in more than twenty years. Chicago’s population was substantially larger then than now so Chicago’s homicide rate per 100,000 population is the highest since we started keeping records.

The homicides are concentrated in a small number of mostly black South and West Side neighborhoods. Most of the victims and the perpetrators are young, black men. The underlying cause of these homicides is street gangs and the social pathologies that foster them.

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  • michael reynolds Link

    Congratulations?

  • Guarneri Link

    It’s clearly the damned Republicans, probably Trump.

  • Gray Shambler Link

    NO! Trumps on this, Just wait. BTW, I’m serious.
    yOUR gODFATHER CAN’T HANDLE IT.

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