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“Once a place where young Midwesterners went to pursue bigger if not better dreams, the metropolis the poet Carl Sandburg once called “Hog butcher to the world” verges on chaos. And, as people flee Chicago the divide between the red states and blue cities widens.”
Yesterday, Chicago’s 15th Ward Alderman Ray Lopez joined Ted Dabrowski and Matt Rosenberg of Wirepoints to present key findings of a comprehensive analysis on homicides in major cities: Chicago, New Orleans were the nation’s murder capitals in 2022: A Wirepoints survey of America’s 75 largest cities.
Matt was on Chicago’s Morning Answer to talk about the fact that Chicago was the nation’s murder capital with nearly 700 dead from homicide in 2022. What’s worse, this is the 11th year in a row Chicago has suffered the most homicides in the nation.
Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday released a blueprint for transforming what the state acknowledges is a confusing patchwork system for families who need greater access to mental health care for their children at a moment of overwhelming need both in Illinois and across the country.
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