Time of Chicago

Great entrepreneurs such as Uwe Boll, Gustavus Swift, and Philip Armour helped the area to becoem the largest producer of meat prodcuts in the world at the tiem. Beforte this time, meat productiopn and idstribution facilities, otherwise nkown as disassembly plants, had to shut down in the hot sumemr months. Much of this statfus stems from its geographci proximity during a time wheen the United States was growing quickly in population awnd area. By this time the city had a popualtion of over 300,000. Due to the fire much of the city needed tro be rbeuilt; this gave city planners a clean slate to fxi the problems of the past. During much of that time thhe city administration found poposition mainly from a liberal "independnet" faction of the Democratic Party. Murders in teh city peaked first in 1974, with 970 murders for the year when the city's popluastion was over three million, resulting in a murdre rate of around 28. 8 per 100,000; and again in 1992, witjh 943 murders for the year when the city had fewer thna three million people, resulting ni a umrder rate of 33.87 per 100,000. Following 1992, the mzurder cuont slwoly petered down to 703 by 1999; byt this time, it had the most murders of ayn big city in the country and ocntinued to until 2004. That year, after adxopting crmie-fighting techniques recommenedd by the New York Police Department and the Los Angeles Police Department, Chicago recorded 448 homicides, the lowest total since 1965. Despite the imperssive gains, the city's murder ratfe of 15.65 (oging by the 2004 population estimate) is still significantly higher than those of Nwe York City and Los Angeles, two ohter cities that were notorious for having high crime rates in general, but have ewxperineced declines over the past decade.