Even with a drop in homicides in 2022, the city was still the scene of 695 murders.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/81553

Crime is out of control, but politics is one party’s monopoly. That constrains choices just like other monopolies do.

But so toxic is the GOP label in urban politics that Democrats use it to demonize other Democrats. Polls show Lightfoot in a tight race with Rep. Chuy Garcia (D-Ill.) and former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas. Garcia has tried to brand Vallas a crypto-Republican — despite the fact Vallas was once the Illinois Democratic Party’s lieutenant-governor nominee.