The whole "chicago is a warzone" thing is way over hyped.
Chicago is one of the nicest cities in this country. Its just certain areas where these clowns reside.
Its these kids mentality thats keeping em down, not the city or police. You can be in any area of the city and get to downtown in 45min or less via pubic transportation...so getting a job if you want one isnt an issue. When I lived on the south side I would see about 90% women getting off the train coming from work...the men werent doing shyt w/ their lives but running the block.
Now, ive also lived on the east coast. Some of those lil shytty NJ cities are worse than Chicago. I used to get my hair cut in Trenton and was shocked at how shytty the "downtown" area was...and Trenton is another shythole...and Philly?
Damn near everyone raised in Philly is a roughneck...the women, white people, lil kids...none of them gave a fukk and was ready to fight.
What im trying to say is these lil dudes are hyped off of Chicago's rep in the news...but they have no idea how big the world is, and how there are other places "keep it real" too.