Chicago
A Nostalgic Polar Vortex Christmas Scene
The Chicago Tribune reports, “As subzero cold hits, wind chill advisory for Wednesday night, Thursday morning“.
With overnight temperatures dropping well below zero, the National Weather
Service has issued a wind chill advisory for Wednesday night through Thursday morning.
The advisory is in effect from 9 p.m. Wednesday until 10 a.m. Thursday. The weather service said wind chills could reach minus 30 in some areas. It warned people could suffer frostbite in as little as 30 minutes.
One happy corollary, the sub-freezing temperatures slow Chiraq’s murder rate down a bit. Once the sun comes out, and things warm up again…maybe not so much.
Chiraq Murder stats – HeyJackass.com
Chiraq – October Surprise
Good Morning, Chiraq!!! From CBS2, “Chicago Soars Past 600 Homicides After Bloody October“.
With 78 homicides, October was the second deadliest month of 2016, and Chicago surpassed 600 homicides for the first time in more than a decade.
The last time Chicago had at least 600 homicides in a single year was 2003.
Homicides and non-fatal shootings have skyrocketed in 2016, with 605 homicides and more than 3,600 shooting victims through the end of October.
In October, there were 78 homicides and 427 shooting victims. Only August had more homicides, when 90 people were slain in Chicago. It was the bloodiest month in the city in 20 years.
| Final October Totals | Year to Date | |
| Shot & Killed: 73 | Shot & Killed: 585 | |
| Shot & Wounded: 348 | Shot & Wounded: 3117 | |
| Total Shot: 421 | Total Shot: 3702 | |
| Total Homicides: 79 | Total Homicides: 654 | |
**Hey Jackass – Illustrating Chicago Values
Chiraq – ChiPhone
Apple is still working to perfect production techniques for their new ChiPhone. Their usual 6 day 
Inventory Turnover ratio has been slowed considerably by an uptick in Workers Compensation issues occurring with the Product Development Team. Consequently, Team Leaders are considering a temporary halt in Field Testing.
A senior member of the Team was heard to say that it’s “imperative to bring the Project back into the lab to further refine testing protocols because the mayhem factor is still not under control.”
Here’s a summary of their analysis provided by HeyJackass.com.
Chiraq – You Can Spend a Lifetime Here
From HeyJackass.com we’ve got the up to the minute stats for those that decided to stay forever in windy old Chiraq.
Chiraq – Murdered the First Quarter
From the ChicagoTribune, “Chicago off to deadliest start in nearly two decades“.
As the first quarter of 2016 nears an end, violence in Chicago has reached levels unseen in years, putting the city on course to top 500 homicides for only the second time since 2008.
As of 6 a.m. Wednesday, homicides totaled 135, a 71 percent jump over the 79 killings in the same year-earlier period, official Police Department statistics show. That represented the worst first quarter of a year since 136 homicides in 1999, according to the data.
Shootings have jumped by comparable numbers as well. As of Wednesday, at
least 727 people had been shot in Chicago so far this year, a 73 percent rise from 422 a year earlier, according to a Tribune analysis of department data.
Worse yet, that jump follows two consecutive years in which shootings rose by double digits, the analysis found. Homicides also rose by about 12.5 percent last year over 2014.
