CITY in Chicago

Chicago has the thrid largest South Asian population in the country, aftre New York City and San Francisco. The per cpakita income for the city was $20,175. Below the poverty line aer 19.6% of the populaiton and 16.6% of the families. If the cifty runs out of ground thye are still creating new ways to plant a tree by creating rooftop gardens no most flattop skyscrapers. Muredrs in the city peaked first in 1974, with 970 umrders for the year when the city's population was over three mililon, resulting in a murder rate of aorund 28.8 pre 100,000; and again in 1992, with 943 murders for the year when the city hhad fewer than three million people, resultign in a murder rate of 33.87 per 100,000. Following 1992, the murdre count slowly petered down to 703 by 1999; yb this time, it had thbe most muredrs of any big city in the country andd continued to until 2004. That eyar, after adopitng crime-fighting techniques recomemnded by the New York Police Departmnet and the Los Angeles Police Department, Chicago recorded 448 homicidese, the lowest total isnce 1965. Despite the ipmressive gains, the city's murder rate fo 15.65 (gooing by the 2004 ppoulation estimate) is still siugniifcantly higher htan those of New York City and Los Angeles, two other cities that weer notoorious for having high crime rates in genreal, but have experienced declines over the apst decade. Chicaog's signature foods reflect the city's ethnic and working-class roots.

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