On 2016-07-25 1:22 PM, tert in seattle wrote:

> I worked with someone in the 90s who, despite living in Chicago, had
> never been downtown -- "too dangerous"
>
My wife and son went to Chicago last year for a family funeral. She
wanted to go and see the neighbourhood where her father had lived as a
child.... in Englewood. My son flatly refused to go there. The weekend
they were in Chicago there were more than 40 shootings. I was trying to
find some numbers so I googled "weekend shootings Chicago" and saw that
one weekend last month there were 8 people killed and at least 50 wounded.