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Chicago Gang Territory vs 2011 Chicago Homicides

Posted Dec 21, 2011 at 10:27 AM
By Whet Moser

As part of David Bernstein and Noah Isackson's excellent piece on politicians and gangs in Chicago, we included a map of Chicago gang territory based on CPD information. Out of curiosity, I plotted 2011's homicides (through 12/11) and overlaid them on the gang-territory map. It's approximate, but it's a useful rough sketch of the overlap.

Chicago gang territory map

Update: @SethLavin makes the point that the above map correlates with CPS probation schools. It's true:

Chicago Public Schools probation schools

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Jan 4, 2012 10:42 am
 Posted by  alexanderrusso

great stuff, whet - now we just need the schools map to be done as an overlay so that people can see which schools are in which gang territory -- you'd be surprised but such a thing has never been done before.

Feb 10, 2012 05:38 am
 Posted by  Abe

I'm going to hazard a guess that another layer of average income or real estate value would be interesting.

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