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From a very thoughtful conversation about urban gun violence:

Based on the coverage Chicago has gotten in the last year or so, I was wondering if things were as bad as the bad old days of the early 90s.  I would assume this is because it is bucking the national trend of continuing decline of murder rates in this country, and the fact that Chicago is the president's adopted hometown.  Not that 500 murders is not ridiculous, but I remember reading the Tribune when I was in college, and in 1992, I believe the city had something like 75 or 100 kids under 10 killed.  It was crazy.