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That wasn’t my experience. I lived in wicker park. Someone had their motorbike stolen at gunpoint outside my kitchen window. This was monthly (or more often) ne

• tptacek 4y ago
  Chicago leads the nation in carjackings, but they've spiked in most big cities in the US --- they quadrupled in NYC and Philly (which has a comparable number to Chicago per capita). They're lower in New York, but it's harder to drive in New York than in Chicago, so that tracks. I think this is probably a city phenomenon more than it is a Chicago phenomenon. Aside from vehicular hijacking, crime in Chicago for the typical HN reader is not a huge issue; it might actually be less of an issue than it is in San Francisco, for instance (not that SF is any kind of gold standard). Obviously, for a large group of people who will never read HN, crime in Chicago is a nationally-historic disaster; if you lived in Chatham, fleeing to any other city to escape crime would make a lot of sense.