If Chicago were a war zone, it would be a deadlier one for Americans than Afghanistan.
In fact, according to the Department of Defense and FBI data, the number of Chicagoans murdered is two and a half times U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan since 2001.
With NATO in the rear-view mirror, area law enforcement officials and politicians will turn their attention away from unruly protestors back to the city’s rising murder rate – up 54 percent from last year, according to police data.
Full story: Chicago’s murder rate mirrors war zone, federal data shows