Chicago, Murder Capital of the United States - Page 3

Glinda · #21 (**permalink**) 12-22-2008, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Ziggae_6

Yep, Chicago. Also home for 2.8 million residents and the entire "Chicagoland" area has a population of 9.5 million people. (to put this in perspective, the state of Alaska only has a total population of around 626,000)

If you've never spent time there, STFU. Because its a fantastic big city. Where do I start? Fantastic lake front and beautiful skyline. Mucho jobs, home of great museums, Field, Science and Industry, Aquarium. Art Institute. Great public transit system. Home of the White Sox, Bears, Hawks, Bulls, Cubs. Wrigley Field, a jewel for baseball fans everywhere in the middle of a great neighborhood. Theatre galore, several music venues and clubs. Any kind of music, you can find it. Neighborhood and ethnic festivals. University of Chicago. On and on and on.

If Obama wasn't from this state, we wouldn't be reading such tripe from the "rubes" of the country who don't have a clue about this fantastic city.

I have to agree, Zig. Chicago is an incredible city, with some awesome people. I've taken a few vacations there, and have only wonderful things to say about it and the folks I met there, along the way. Helpful, friendly, and funny as hell. Sadly, Chicago's murder toll is high, but most big cities have this problem - it's certainly not restricted to the City of Big Shoulders.

In fact, if a high murder rate is justification for "pulling out of Chicago," we'd have to pull out of Detroit, Baltimore, St. Louis, Newark, Washington DC, Oakland, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Buffalo, Cleveland, Miami, Cincinnati, Memphis, Milwaukee, and Pittsburgh BEFORE Chicago, since they all have worse crime/murder rates than Chicago... --United States cities by crime rate

Lame thread. Stupid premise. Find something valid to get bent about.

Sheesh.

presluc · #22 (**permalink**) 12-22-2008, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Ziggae_6

By the way, I also love how the rubes post the same crap over and over again. This is from a Yahoo search and you can see that this tripe was already posted several times. Any original ideas in the first post?

http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=...y-myy&ei=UTF-8

Man, I hadn't realized I was following a retro thread,thank you.

So how many times have you posted on this thread?

Ziggae_6 · #23 (**permalink**) 12-22-2008, 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by presluc

Man, I hadn't realized I was following a retro thread,thank you.

So how many times have you posted on this thread?

Only what you see here and that's too many times.

But at least my ideas are my own and not just a post from another dittohead.

onalandline · #24 (**permalink**) 12-23-2008, 05:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Ziggae_6

Yep, Chicago. Also home for 2.8 million residents and the entire "Chicagoland" area has a population of 9.5 million people. (to put this in perspective, the state of Alaska only has a total population of around 626,000)

If you've never spent time there, STFU. Because its a fantastic big city. Where do I start? Fantastic lake front and beautiful skyline. Mucho jobs, home of great museums, Field, Science and Industry, Aquarium. Art Institute. Great public transit system. Home of the White Sox, Bears, Hawks, Bulls, Cubs. Wrigley Field, a jewel for baseball fans everywhere in the middle of a great neighborhood. Theatre galore, several music venues and clubs. Any kind of music, you can find it. Neighborhood and ethnic festivals. University of Chicago. On and on and on.

If Obama wasn't from this state, we wouldn't be reading such tripe from the "rubes" of the country who don't have a clue about this fantastic city.

Don't get me wrong, I love Chicago. It has arguably the best downtown area in the U.S.

GramCleric · #25 (**permalink**) 12-23-2008, 06:33 AM

Please don't tell me that yet again Detroit is not the murder capital.

First the lions go for an historic record, now this?

At least I still have my Red Wings. Though they too have done their fair share in failing me.

GramCleric · #26 (**permalink**) 12-23-2008, 06:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Ziggae_6

Yep, Chicago. Also home for 2.8 million residents and the entire "Chicagoland" area has a population of 9.5 million people. (to put this in perspective, the state of Alaska only has a total population of around 626,000)

If you've never spent time there, STFU. Because its a fantastic big city. Where do I start? Fantastic lake front and beautiful skyline. Mucho jobs, home of great museums, Field, Science and Industry, Aquarium. Art Institute. Great public transit system. Home of the White Sox, Bears, Hawks, Bulls, Cubs. Wrigley Field, a jewel for baseball fans everywhere in the middle of a great neighborhood. Theatre galore, several music venues and clubs. Any kind of music, you can find it. Neighborhood and ethnic festivals. University of Chicago. On and on and on.

If Obama wasn't from this state, we wouldn't be reading such tripe from the "rubes" of the country who don't have a clue about this fantastic city.

You know you are from Michigan when you can say "what's the big deal about Chicago?"

Ferris · #27 (**permalink**) 12-23-2008, 06:49 AM

Murders per 100k-cap has dropped from 20.7 to 15.7 in Chicago since Obama took office. That's really not that high of a number either.

Ziggae_6 · #28 (**permalink**) 12-23-2008, 07:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Ferris

Murders per 100k-cap has dropped from 20.7 to 15.7 in Chicago since Obama took office. That's really not that high of a number either.

Wait! You can't use that number! It makes Obama look good!-

signed, the selective facts committee.

presluc · #29 (**permalink**) 12-23-2008, 08:30 AM

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Originally Posted by GramCleric

Please don't tell me that yet again Detroit is not the murder capital.

First the lions go for an historic record, now this?

At least I still have my Red Wings. Though they too have done their fair share in failing me.

From the big city of Hillsdale, Michigan I agree.

OneThunder · #30 (**permalink**) 12-23-2008, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by presluc

From the big city of Hillsdale, Michigan I agree.

Hey Hey- I go fishing in Hillsdale!

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