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Chicago is home to four of the top 25 most dangerous "neighborhoods" in the country, including a sliver of Washington Park that ranked No. 2, a recently released study of FBI crime statistics shows.
FBI: 4 of the 25 most dangerous U.S. neighborhoods are in Chicago; Washington Park #2
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This is what Mayor Daley has planned for Washington Park --
To see the full list: http://www.walletpop.com/insurance/most-dangerous-neighborhoods
According to FBI data compiled and pitched to the media by a startup with a great PR team!
They scored a Sun-Times story and this blog post from AOL. I wonder where else they scored hits?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=25+worst+neighborhoods
Huh? What's the startup in question?
neighborhoodscout.com
Interesting. And how might you know that? Are you a member of said PR team perchance? :)
Like I said, the south side sucks.
To be honest, I'm a bit surprised about the locations. I only track homicides, not all violent crime, but I wouldn't say Englewood and Washington Park are the hotspots in the city.
By my count, Englewood has logged four homicides this year. (West Englewood has seen 10.) Washington Park hasn't logged any.
Though Austin is the largest community area, it's logged 20 homicides this year.
The full map of homicides this year: www.redeyechicago.com/homicides
A Chicago Police Department report released in April summarizing 2008 data found that police districts in the Greater Grand Crossing, Englewood and East Garfield Park areas had the highest murder rates last year.
I don't recall seeing Washington Park mentioned at all in that report.
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