And there you have it. The reason for Chicago's appalling murder rate is Chicago's political system, which makes going after gangs and putting murderers in jail . . . ah . . . shall we say problematic. Not a lot has changed since the days when Al Capone owned the town.
And the reason that Illinois, and Chicago and the Chicago schools are all going rapidly broke is that those same Crook County politicians control all three.
And nothing will change until they do run out of money since a system in which the dead still get to vote is not easy to change. After all, the prosecutors who should be looking at why dead people are voting were elected by those same dead people.