Violence spike of 2020 widened familiar safety gap between city neighborhoods, University of Chicago Crime Lab analysis shows – Chicago Tribune*

The same communities that experience higher homicide rates, which in Chicago in 2020 included neighborhoods such as East and West Garfield Park, and North Lawndale, Englewood, Austin and Gresham, also experience premature mortality rates from other causes like chronic disease, cancer, HIV/AIDS, maternal and infant mortality, and overdoses. That means the overall life expectancy gap between people living in the Loop and people living in West Garfield Park, which is predominantly Black, is as high as 16 years.