[bk1000]

And yet Chicago is the murder capital of the US. Or is it NYC? I am calling complete BS on this article.

[Teacher317]

Chicago has 500+ firearms homicides per year... and a population of 2.7 million... for a rate of 18.5 per 100,000.

Alaska has 700,000 residents. Their rate of 4.22 means they have 29 firearm homicides per year for the entire state... and this is somehow worse than the 500+ per year in one town (Obama's hometown).

Further, with 12.8 million people in Illinois, Chicago's murders alone put the state at 3.91 per 100,000... so the rest of the entire state, 9 million people including East St Louis, the worst city in America, somehow does not put them high enough to make the top 10. Mmm hmmmm.