Chicago's violent crime rate: 1,006.1 per 100,000 people
about half of the most violent large city in the nation
29. Chicago 1,006.1
10. Stockton 1,399.6
9. Milwaukee 1,413.0
8. Little Rock 1,446.1
7. Cleveland 1,449.6
6. KC 1,590.3 (didn't know gays were so violent)
5 St Louis 1,800.4
4. B'More 1,833.4
3. B'ham 1,911.5
2. Memphis 1,943.2
1. Detroit 2,007.8
Probably why I always feel at home in Memphis.
Chicago did lead the nation in homicides, 563; which is about double the number of homicides in Detroit. However, Detroit, 672,000 pop, has a quarter the population of Chicago, at 2.7 million.
Detroit stats also don't include bodies dumped in Highland Park and Hamtramck, two small cities smack in the middle of Detroit proper.