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President Donald Trump's United States of America
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picard102
Senior Member
Americans seem to view history as something other than cautionary tales.
I was just there. Walked for miles all over the city including the Mag Mile. (Note to Donald: It's the Magnificent Mile, not the Miracle Mile) It was just a bunch of tourists shopping and wandering and eating and drinking as per usual. Great city to visit.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
And they have a wonderful term for it - vergangenheitsbewältigung trans. "coming to terms with the past".
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UtakataNoAnnex
Superstar
Your nation was considered one of the best until you ran it into the ground. Call in the troops to have you and your administration removed? "Just the news", indeed.
thettctransitfanatic
Senior Member
'Unprecedented' flight cancellations and delays won't stop soon; Live updates on FAA cuts
The percentage of flights required to be cut by the FAA was expected to increase to 6% from 4% at 40 major airports on Tuesday.
www.usatoday.com
adma
Superstar
Remember, too. Pandemic, & online shopping. That would explain the vacancies more than murder & crime.
doady
Senior Member
It's also the reason they banned pro-Palestinian protests and supported Israel's genocide against Palestinians so unconditionally.
T3G
Senior Member
By people who weren't aware of the existence of any other nation, maybe.
Northern Light
Superstar
It is important to say, when viewing the overall statistics, that Chicago, while it does have much to commend it, is a very violent city by Toronto standards.
Toronto is pacing for a historic low in homicides this year, (based on the last 50 or so years).......with a homicide rate likely in the range of 1.4 per 100,000. Our recent historical averages would be closer to 2.6
Chicago has also seen a significant decline in homicides year over year...........but is still running a homicide rate of 7.0 this year (as of June) a rate 5x that of Toronto.
They've been up close to 8x in the recent past.
Still......on violent crime, Chicago is trending positively.
Also worth saying, of course, is that most of the violent crime in Chicago is not downtown, or in the north end, but pockets of the south and west sides which is where most of the poverty can be found, and relatively few of the tourists.
In respect of the Magnificent Mile there is indeed inordinately high retail vacancy, but that too is trending favourably. Vacancy peaked in 2021 at ~30% and is currently at ~25% and continues to trend positively with new lease uptake.
Chicago's overall retail vacancy rate is 4.7%, which is above Toronto's, but well below national U.S. numbers in the 5.5% to 6% range.
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Yes Chicago does have plenty of crime. But Trump and MAGA have been trying to portray it as violence running rampant in the streets (also Portland). I had people very concerned that I was going there. My friends who live there are more concerned about the ICE raids because otherwise, Chicagoans know where to be and where not to be. The only negative changes they are seeing are those associated with Trumpian policies.
UtakataNoAnnex
Superstar
And he seems to know more than he's been eluding to...
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Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
It begins. Clearly incriminating evidence against president of the United States. Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011: "i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."
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picard102
Senior Member
Detroit is at 32/100k people for murders this year. Memphis is even higher. Those are however red states.
JasonParis
Moderator
I haven’t looked at the stats myself, but a friend from Chicago once mentioned that some north-side neighbourhoods have among the lowest urban crime rates in the country — even though the city’s overall numbers are high. I believe it. Chicago really is a tale of two cities.
Northern Light
Superstar
A homicide heat map for Chicago covering the last 12 months, more green, more murder.
Divided into two, from Downtown northwards:
From downtown southwards:
The above taken from: https://safemap.io/chicago/map
From the above, a closer view of Garfield Park and environs: