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Originally Posted by Bunk
Chicago epitomizes the good and the bad of American cities. It's amazing where it's good, and absolutely appalling where it's bad. It is the most racially segregated city in the US. White people live one place, Hispanics there, and African Americans somewhere else.
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Walk literally one block north of the United Center, and you enter a different world. Which I discovered by accident while waiting for a bus downtown after the game.
Besides the crime, there is also the drivers. The highway signs flashed how many people had died on Illinois highways in 2013. I was there five days, in May. It went from something like 224 to 236 in that time.