[SkyDancer]

My folks and I are traveling via AMTRAK through Chicago’s Union Station ... like downtown ... so how safe is that? Where are all the shootings taking place? We have to change trains there ... I’m for opting to just stay in the station for the two hour layover ....

[HiTech RedNeck]

We’ll probably never hear about the real reason the International Olympic Committee dumped Chicago from the shortlist of host cities in 2016, but it would be naïve to omit the committee’s concerns about the safety of thousands of foreign tourists. Many of those tourists would have been sampling the Chicago bar scene too.

Warning them about the "rough areas" would be embarrassing. There were no "rough areas" in, say, China.

[nfldgirl]

As far as the IOC not picking Chicago because of concern for safety...I don’t buy that one bit. Rio is a heavily crime-laden city...worse than Chicago, no doubt. Had to be something else besides a concern for safety.

[PLD]

Can you imagine that if the Olympics were held in Chicago how many people would be murdered by the thugs there..I think the Olympic judges have seen what goes on in that city and decided by what they saw not to trust it..Obama is safe there because he is the gang leader just like Wright putting this hate in these young peoples hearts..And then they have the parents that teach them from birth to hate anyone that seems to have more and especially Whittie..Sick place and I will never go there..

[Springman]

Great city you live in CC.

[QBFimi]

>> the [Communist] Chilean poet Pablo Neruda

Nothing like a nice Commie quote to spice up an article.

[freekitty]

I wonder how sorry Daly is now that he helped get Obama elected?

[FrankR]

barrack hussein obama

Mmmmm....Mmmmm...Mmm

[Fast Ed97]

As far as cities are concerned, Chicago is relatively safe except in various pockets.

A good rule of thumb for tourists is do not venture East of the United Center or South of Chinatown---and you'll be fine.

[Mamzelle]

The "Black House", eh? How chilling.

Perhaps the new administration will unwittingly provide an opportunity to confront black on white racism.

[SuziQ]

Chicago’s vitriolic West Side Catholic leader and one time Obama spiritual mentor Father Michael Pfleger ... has,” earlier this year thundered about the hypocrisy of fighting a war in Iraq “when we have innocent children dying on the streets right here at home."

Fr. Pfleger only has to look in the mirror to understand why Chicago has the violence it has. He, and others of his liberal ilk, have been making excuses for this bad behavior for years, bleating about carp like 'root causes of crime' etc. The 'root causes' are simply that these folks know they can get away with the bad things they do, and have pushed the envelope for years, escalating crime as they went.

[EDINVA]

“The boy suffered a fractured skull and barely survived the vicious attack.”

Barely survived?

[Marysecretary]

Jeremiah is a great scholar? Who knew?

[Bubba_Leroy]

The U.S. clearly needs to pull out of Chicago.