“BTW I was born there”
Me too, and I spent a lot of my youth walking the streets and alleys that I can’t anymore unless willing to be shot. I’ve had friends shot while I lived there, and remember sitting in my bedroom as a young kid, listening to gunfire down the street. It wasn’t usual then, and certainly wasn’t like it is now, but it was the beginning of a trend that has destroyed the quality of life in large areas of Chicago. I don’t know what the answers are, but I do know that little children shouldn’t have to grow up in gang-infested neighborhoods in which they can’t play outside in safety.
Born in 1942 and we moved to a south suburb in 1949, so never suffered the horrors you have. If you’re a good, strong Republican, you’d be really well off to move down here to TN, a good Republican state that respects and celebrates the Second Amendment.