While this map does not address other crimes like stabbings, robberies, batteries, or the number of times gunshots are fired in a particular neighborhood; it does, however, claim to track non-fatal and fatal shootings.
Some of the numbers may surprise you.
From December 31, 2011, to the present, there have been three fatal shootings and two non-fatal shootings in the city's Lake View neighborhood, according to the shootings and homicides map.
In Uptown, during that same time period, there were two gun-related fatalities and five non-fatal shootings.
The numbers are much worse for Rogers Park... where four people were shot to death and eleven people were struck by gunfire, since the beginning of the year.
Meanwhile, several South Side neighborhoods reported far fewer incidents of non-fatal and fatal shootings.
Avalon Park, a predominately black neighborhood bordered by East 76th Street to the north, East 87th Street to the south, the Metra South Shore Line to the east, and S. South Chicago Avenue to west, saw four non-fatal shootings since December 31, 2011... no fatal shootings were reported during this time period.
Similarly, in the city's Burnside community -- sandwiched between East 87th Street to the north, East 95th Street to the south, the Metra South Shore Line to the east, and South Stony Island to the west -- one fatal shooting and one person struck by gunfire was reported.
West of the Burnside community, sits Calumet Heights... one of the safest communities in Chicago, when it comes to shootings, according to the shootings and homicide map.
Between December 31, 2011, to the present, there have been two non-fatal shootings and not a single gun-related death.
Click here to see the number of shootings in your 'hood!
The map is wrong, the Stratford Pl and one block north incidents were domestics/stabbings, not shootings.
ReplyDeleteSimple mistake by the Sun Times or taking an opportunity to slip in "see, whitey get killt too"
ReplyDelete@6:40 am. Stabbed FIFTY (50) times on Stratford Pl. vs. ONE bullet (or two) fired on the street resulting in a murder too? What's the difference? It's most likely drug laced ("liberal") rage in either case.
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for the information to draw my own logical conclusion before BUYING into this mess.
The map is correct. This story is wrong. The graphic plainly states that this map tracks HOMICIDES and shootings. It does not say homicides by handgun, it says ALL homicides.
ReplyDeleteReading. It's hard.
828pm there is a HUGE difference between two gay lovers quarreling and some animal sitting someone on the street. The former i can avoid one hundred percent of the time, the latter maybe not.
DeleteAnd again the sun times map legend does not match the data, fuck off
"shooting" not sitting
Delete@811pm: I would not buy at all there right now. Do not buy ANYWHERE in Chicago right now. If you just HAVE to live there, rent for a year.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 8:28 p.m., perhaps, reading is hard for YOU, but the dots on the map are supposed to represent fatal and non-fatal shootings.
ReplyDeleteIf you have an issue with the map key, address the Chicago Sun-Times.
Ive been an anti-violence activist...luckily decided to go home early twice this year, because multiple shootings occurred at two locations, I was suppose to show up to...Lords watching...
ReplyDelete@8:43 - I was smart enough to know not to buy since day one for the 5+ years I've been stuck here. Fortunately, I no longer am.
ReplyDeleteDon't believe the hype about rental prices soaring because people aren't (or can't) buy either. I've got a bigger and more updated place in a better neighborhood for the SAME price or cheaper about every year I've been here. The place I'm at right now in a "fancy" neighborhood, the "management company" didn't even verify my employment or run the "credit check". I know this for a fact. They're begging for a certain demographic.
Yes, there is a big difference in gay people shitting on each other here vs. other areas in the U.S. and, hence, that's why they're scurred to death of each other here too (and the only place they'll have sex is in a "public" place like Skankworks, the lakefront or an alley).
ReplyDeleteAgain, a novel could be written about how NOT to F up a gay "community". It would be subtitled "Sh*tcago".
(Oops, I meant shooting).