I grew up in far northwest Indiana, just 30 miles from Chicago. My buds and I would sometimes take the South Shore train into the heart of the city. We’d go everywhere — from the Loop to North Michigan Avenue to the museums and Lake Shore Drive, Wrigleyville, Greek Town, Comiskey Park, and the South Side.

Man, the fun we’d had. But, today? Shudder the thought.

Chicago is no longer “My kind of town,” as Frank Sinatra famously sang — and far from “toddling.”

The Windy City suffered yet another bloody Memorial Day weekend, this year, with at least 51 people shot, including 12, fatally. As reported by Fox 32 (WFLD) the senseless, out-of-control murder mayhem occurred despite dozens of “peacekeepers” patrolling city streets in an effort to stop — or at least, limit — the expected bloodshed. Needless to say, it didn’t come even close to success.

ABC affiliate EyeWitness News reported that two two-year-olds were shot in separate shootings just hours apart, with one shooting of a little girl who found a gun in the street and accidentally discharged it, striking herself in the hand. In the second shooting, a 2-year-old boy was playing in a bedroom with a “known male” when a gun was fired, according to police. Neither child was seriously wounded. No arrests were made.

So I have a few observations, several questions, and a multitude of thoughts.

First, unlike mass shootings, which Democrats histrionically exploit as excuses to call for further restrictions on the Second Amendment rights of America’s law-abiding gun owners, where are Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, and every other Democrat on Capitol Hill, today? Why are they not decrying the senseless loss of life — and shooting of two two-year-olds — in bloody Chicago? [Cue the crickets.]

Second, while the so-called “mainstream” media will surely report the grim totals and cite the grim statistics, you won’t see them providing the demographic details — with respect to black-on-black murder (or black-on-white murder) for one simple reason, but white-on-black murder? They’re all over it like Lizzo on a bag of McDonald’s Double Quarter Pounders with Cheese.

Why the selectivity? Because the first two scenarios — black-on-black, and black-on-white murder run counter to at least two Democrat narratives, while white-on-black murder is smack dab in the middle of the left’s narrative wheelhouse.

Here’s the dirty little non-secret secret the Democrats don’t want you to know:

While multitudinous left-“leaning” sources trumpet the stark differences between the numbers and percentages of black Americans killed by so-called “gun violence,” they almost never include the rest of the story — which is damn hard to uncover. Therefore, below are Justice Department stats from 1983, which I’d bet my bottom dollar are even worse in 2023.

Black homicide rates are seven to eight times those of whites though Blacks have a rate of poverty only four to five times that of whites.

Homicide is the leading cause of death among young Black men and contributes significantly to the shortened lifespan of the Black male.

In about 80-90% of the cases, the Black victim was killed by another Black, and about 52% of the murder victims were acquainted with their assailant.

Do you ever hear that on CNN? Me, neither. Or, from race-baiting Joy Reid on MSNBC? Ditto. Or, how about from the hood ornament of race hustlers Al Sharpton? Please.

Yet, the “Reverand” Al dutifully took his race-hustling clown show to New York City earlier this month to eulogize 30-year-old homeless man Jordan Neely, who died on May 1st after being subdued by multiple passengers on a New York City subway for allegedly behaving in an aggressive and threatening manner, saying he was hungry, threatening violence, and didn’t care if he got arrested.

As my colleague Sister Toldjah reported, 24-year-old Marine Daniel Penny put Neely in a “submission hold,” and was subsequently charged by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg with second-degree manslaughter over Neely’s death, yet multiple witnesses described Penny as a “hero.” Go figure.

Meanwhile, Chicago streets continue to run red with the blood of victims of senseless murders, day after bloody day, month after month, year after year. — murders that no amount of gun-grabber legislation can stop. Bad people intent on doing bad things are going to do those bad things by whatever means at their disposal. Guns, knives, bats, fists, or whatever.

The Bottom Line

Chicago isn’t the Lone Ranger, of course, awash in out-of-control murder. From New York City to Baltimore to Minneapolis, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and beyond, Democrat mayors and city councils howl at the moon about “gun violence,” ever calling for more and more gun control, while insanely returning repeat violent criminals to the streets — as if jail cells were fitted with revolving doors.