It should be noted that even among LARGE cities Chicago’s gun violence isn’t the leader.
While national headlines were dominated by gun violence in Chicago throughout the Independence Day weekend, persistent gun violence has produced a higher rate of homicide in Philadelphia through the first 26 weeks of 2014. http://guncrisis.org/tag/per-capita-homicide-rate/
And New Orleans while not considered a LARGE city, in the last comparison I saw, had a firearm homicide rate more than twice as high as either Chicago or Philly. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6018a1.htm?s_cid=mm6018a1_w

See also;
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1172&pid=60844

russ: .. even among LARGE cities Chicago’s gun violence isn’t the leader.

Just posted this on 'gunsalot', & note that there are several other progun cities with higher violent crime rates than Chicago, or on a par with. Chicago gets picked on because it has the higher figures, because it has the higher population.

HOUSTON 2,177,273 (for January - june 2013)
Murder 105
Aggravated Assault 5,087
Robbery 4,612

CHICAGO 2,708,382
Murder 179
Aggravated Assault 5,074
Robbery 5,416

... in terms of crime 'rates' per capita (100k), Houston is more violent-crime-prone:
crime .... .Houston ....... Chicago
murder ... 4.82 .... .... 6.6
aggr/asslt...233.6 ..... 187.3
robbery: ... 211.8 ..... 200

As well, Chicago has allowed handguns for a couple years now, so what to make of it.

point is?