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Message:: [QUOTE="Vess1, post: 7833117, member: 13650"]You can see downtown Chicago from the convention center!   There's these things called cars and trains that get people around fairly quickly.     I'm not an expert on where the crime is "contained to" but many other news outlets have reported on problems out on the interstates including people getting shot just driving to work and kids being shot in crossfire at fast food drive throughs.  A female tourist from Maryland was walking downtown this summer visiting for the first time.  In a "safe area".   It was 4 p.m.  She was stabbed and killed for no reason.     There's stats coming out of the city that you don't hear of anywhere else other than maybe Baltimore.  Maybe?   If the number of people injured and killed over a single weekend was over in Afghanistan, the entire country would be in mourning.  I'm talking one weekend, not a month or year.   75 to 100 shot and a dozen killed is an average weekend this year.   That's why it was brought up.  There's no glossing over it.     It would seem the police aren't safe either as two officers were just ambushed this week with one killed and the other in critical condition.   Maybe Rosemont is far enough away from "the action" but it's advertised as being Chicago.    I don't view it the same as I did 10 years ago and I was concerned then.[/QUOTE]