[Hardastarboard]

By my count, 6 out of 25, or more than 20 percent, are in Illinois. That's sort of a common thread.

You can pretty well guess which political party the mayors of most if not all of these cities are from.

Oh, and it's all Bush's fault because he and the Republicans wouldn't fund social programs that would have stopped this.

[RightGeek]

Whatever happened to Rockford, Illinois? Did not used to be anywhere near that bad.