I love Northern cities. I have a personal vendetta against Chicago because many of our problems come from their overflow. Much of the drug market in the midwest is served by Chitown scumbags who find the smaller cities in the midwest a ripe market where they do not need fear competition from more powerful underworld influences. When I was in high school, you could always tell the thugs from Chicago because they brandished the best weaponry if you so much as looked at them funny.
On the bright side, we do also get a lot of cash overflow from 18 year olds who drive across state lines to plop down $60K in cash for a new Lincoln Navigator. I suppose they do this to make it more difficult for LE to track the fact that someone who's 'unemployed' had a thick roll of $100 bills to throw down, so close proximity to a crime-infested cesspool is not without it's benefits I suppose.
If you're from non-Chicago parts of Illinois, you indeed have my sympathy, as is anyone in a rural portion of a state whose politics are dominated by a point-mass heavily influenced by dead democrats.
As far as the rest of your post, I hate people who wage war on civilians. The US defines terrorism as violence or threatened violence against innocents for the purpose of bringing about a political end. Sherman's boasting that he was "bringing the war home" to the South makes me want to puke to think he ever wore a uniform.
Bump. Which makes reading the screed written by the shrew Lucy Shelton Stewart even more detestable.
As an aside, it's Sherman [*spit*]. You can uppercase the *spit* if you so desire.
Then you must hate Ike too.