CHICAGO—Chicago’s downtown is rebounding from the pains of the pandemic. Restaurants and bars are open, residents are dining out, tourists and shoppers are back, and the real estate market is climbing back. But one pandemic pain lingers around—the crime. In some pockets of downtown, it gets even worse. In the central police district, which covers the center and south of downtown, shooting incidents jumped sevenfold in the last 28 days from the same time last year; in the police district that covers the north of downtown, shooting incidents jumped fourfold. In both districts, criminal sexual assault and motor vehicle theft (many are violent carjackings) stand at a five-year high. The publicized police crime data only goes back to five years ago. These statistics do not account for the stray bullets that fly into a revolving door at a restaurant or a second-floor window of a townhouse. These random violent crimes …
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