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People love to bash on Chicago as allegedly being overrun with illegitimate voting. Now there is some data they can parse through to try to see if they can support it. How many people on this list are dead? What precincts can you put them in?

There is pretty good data on how Chicago voted in the 2016 presidential election, and we see only 1.02M votes cast (out of the 1.8M voters on the rolls). Go ahead and get more granular though, can you find precincts with more votes cast than expected?

The people who claim to be so highly knowledgeable on fraudulent voting - if they are as intelligent as they claim - should be able to resolve this pretty quickly. Go ahead, show us how bad it is there.

Democrats have a complete lock on your local government, that is quite a feat! Even Chicago usually has at least one Republican and at least one independent.

Even DuPage County Illinois, in suburban Chicago, used to be uniformly Republican. It was the home of disgraced Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, and the, locally, infamous Phillips brothers. Even DuPage county is no longer uniformly Republican.

Wherever you live must be ripe for corruption if the Dems have such a total lock on power. Anytime one party controls everything, government always becomes corrupted.

Every_single_day there are stories published about people being murdered with guns in Chicago. If you were keeping up with current events, you wouldn't have to ask for proof of that.

http://mic.com/articles/127842...

http://chicagoist.com/2013/01/...

http://america.aljazeera.com/w...

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chic...

Now, presuming that those links satisfy your need for a citation - let me ask something. Can you point to any instance of prohibition in this country that has worked? Prohibition of alcohol and Chicago added up to an Al Capone. Prohibition of cannabis and Chicago adds up to hundreds of millions of dollars in cannabis trade, annually. Prohibition of firearms and Chicago adds up to thousands of dead people, annually.

Get rid of stupid damned laws, and let the people sort it out. A law abiding citizen will seldom use his weapon in an unacceptable manner. A crook will often use his weapon inappropriately. Sooner or later, the crook will meet a law abiding citizen who is armed, willing and able to put the crook in his grave. Eventually, all but the very stupidest people will figure out that a life of crime always results in being shot.

Dump the stupid laws. Chicago is incapable of enforcing any kind of prohibition - so give the guns to law abiding people!

Lessee... Museum of Science and Industry, Field Museum of Natural History, Shedd Aquarium, Adler Planetarium, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Pritzker Bandshell, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Grant Park Outdoor Music Series, great food, not to mention Buckingham Fountain and Navy Pier for the tourists.

Chicago is great in the spring and summer. Longest public lakefront of any city in the world I believe. Murder rate is complete bullshit.

Winter really, really sucks.

Is it just me or does the sentence sound unusually extreme, I mean using a firearm in the robbery should probably add to the sentence in most countries,

This is Chicago, with some of the strictest gun control laws in the USA.

Of course, that doesn't seem to help much is reducing gun violence in Chicago.

Further, the Chicago police have been caught many times adjusting crime reports so that it looks like crime rates have dropped: http://www.chicagomag.com/Chic...

Chicago is also incredibly corrupt and controlled by the Democratic party machine.

Chicago has show some irregularities in the way they are reporting crime stats. That decrease may not be as dramatic as you think. http://www.chicagomag.com/Chic...

Well a good chunk of it is due to CPD lying their asses off: http://www.chicagomag.com/Chic...

They lied about assaults too: http://chicago.cbslocal.com/20...

Hey, Blagojevich managed to kill at least one person - his aide, Chris Kelly.

And the list of Illinois Gubernatorial felons is deeper than two - Otto Kerner and Dan Walker went to the big house too. Big Jim Thompson was too smart to get caught and Jim Edgar was too nerdy. The joke around these parts is if you manage to avoid be sent to jail as Governor, they'll name a big building after you (Thompson Center, Ogilvie Center, Stratton Building). Heck, Stevenson had a highway and pretty much every third school in the state named after him... (of course, you have to go way back to the 50s to find someone that clean in Illinois politics)

Maybe not.

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There are all kinds of exisiting issues including poverty, segregation due to social-economic status, and existing problems of gun violence . . .

You left out the problem of collusion between politicians and gangs in Chicago.

Since I live in a "right to kill" state, I was give a $25 fine and coupons for the Waffle House.

Just a minor correction - that "right" really only applies to criminal thugs and others with protection in the Land of Lincoln. Ordinary citizens are left at the mercy of thugs at the moment, but that is coming to an end in June.

Dozens Pack Illinois Concealed Carry Classes

Illinois is the only state in the country that doesn't allow concealed carry, but a federal mandate came down in December requiring a concealed carry law.

As lawmakers race against the clock to comply, dozens are taking classes in preparation.

Classes like the ones hosted by State Representative Mike Smiddy (D-Hillsdale) in Port Byron and Morrison Sunday offer residents a non-resident concealed carry permit through states like Utah or Florida.

Those permits are recognized in over 31 states, including all those that border Illinois, but are not recognized in Illinois yet.

Illinois lawmakers have until June 9th to comply with a federal ruling to pass a concealed carry law, so residents are rushing to get permits in anticipation of this federal mandate taking effect soon.

"This has pretty much exploded and everyone wants to get their permit," Craig Celia of Safe Gun Permits says.

Celia's gun permit business opened only this past January, and already many of his classes are full. . . . more

Ever heard of Fox News??? It's all about making some crazy outrageous claims that will entertain people and sell advertising. Hell, even Food Reviewers are making outrageous lies these days.

I happen to live in a Chicago suburb and can attest to the abysmal state of government. Chicago itself is a large part of the problem. Talk to anyone in southern Illinois and they'd just as soon seen Chicago thrown out of the state. Things are so bad, one county in western central Illinois has stopped sending the state tax revenues (property & sales).

Illinois has the 3rd largest budget deficit in the country. Public sector unions are constantly going on strike (the teacher's union walked off the job for a week after turning down a 16% raise spread over 4 years - because they wanted 25%). Chicago teachers are already well paid. The average teacher makes $71,000 a year in salary, plus some pretty damn good benefits. And, they want more. Meanwhile, the city is broke, as is the state. This with a 4.5% income tax and a 6.5% state sales tax (sales tax in Chicago/Cook County exceeds 10% total).

The city I happen to live in, in the western Chicago suburbs, has one of the lowest residential property taxes in the state and is pretty fiscally sound. However, in the town newsletter last year, they was a pining plea from the mayor to raise property taxes because funding had fallen (duh, property values plummeted due to the collapse of the housing bubble) and they were having a hard time funding basic services such as police and fire. This letter to the public appeared right next to an article talking about how the police department was so pleased with the new "retro" paint scheme that was being applied to all police vehicles. It's this sort of wasteful and unnecessary spending that breads disgust and contempt of government (and I'm generally pleased with my city's government). Now, I'm fine for applying the new paint scheme to new police vehicles that are replacing worn vehicles that are at the end of their lifetime, but to repaint existing vehicles at an expense that's probably half of the current value of the vehicles? Hell, no.

Obesity: http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/October-2011/The-Low-Poverty-Diet/

Poverty: http://visualecon.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/percent_in_poverty.gif

The correlation is especially marked in Appalachia, the lower Mississippi and the coast of the Carolinas and Georgia. What's going on here? Do poor people exercise less? I doubt it. Most poor people have physical jobs, while rich people sit in offices. I think the problem is that most poor people can't afford much beyond spaghetti, potatoes, and bread (cheap starches), whereas rich people can afford protein, butter, and vegetables.

We have to be careful about making statements about obese people's lifestyles. Usually our statements about fat people are little more than racial and class prejudice: "those people eat too much" really means "they're uncontrolled gluttons", and "those people don't get enough exercise" really means "they're lazy slobs". As long as social classes have existed, the rich and comfortable have justified their privilege by claiming that the poor are weak and immoral.