-By Warner Todd Huston
Well, thank goodness for Rahm Emanuel’s “Chicago values,” eh? NBC Chicago is now reporting that it is more dangerous to live in Chicago than any other great city of the world.
Isn’t it wonderful that Rahm Emanuel came from Washington to save the city?
As the TV station reports it, Chicago is worse than even New York… even worse than MEXICO CITY, fer cripes sakes … in the number of murders we have here.
As measured in murders per 100,000 citizens, here is the list with worst (Chicago) listed first:
- Chicago 19.4
- Sao Paulo 15.6
- Moscow 9.6
- Mexico City 8.0
- Los Angeles 7.5
- New York 6.0
- Paris 4.4
- Amsterdam 1.8
- Toronto 1.7
- London 1.4
- Sydney 1.0
- Berlin 1.0
- Hong Kong 0.6
- Tokyo 0.5
- Singapore 0.4
Thanks, Rahm!
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, RightPundits.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, AmericanDaily.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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