In the Cities of:
Chicago • Detroit • Cincinnati
New Orlean • Atlanta • Nashville
Chicago
Constant gun violance is flooding the streets where the children are playing.
Detroit
How did this bankrupt city go from the least visted to a post-college destination?
Cincinnati
Te city that has never seemed to leave the 1980s in more ways than one.
New Orleans
Are the drunken, stumbling tourist the true cause of the cities’ rocky rebuilding?
Atlanta
Hip-Hop, Foodies & Weather, not just the largest American airport anymore.
Nashville
Gentrifcation; the word that is getting thrown around by everyone.
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Chicago 2015: the Cubs get their frst playoff pennant since fall of 2008 despite losing three straight games. The University of Chicago prepared to host a campaign event for Bernie Sanders, who attended the school in the 1960s. And for the second straight weekend, more than 50 people were shot in the city. The Chicago Tribune reports:
The weekend toll included four men killed and at least 53 people wounded between late Friday evening and early that Monday, according to the police. Last weekend, nine people were killed and upwards of 45 were wounded in the city streets of Chicago due to guns. The violence, which has become bleakly commonplace, did not cease Monday.
The city has endured 2,300 shootings so far this year—an average of more than eight shootings per day and 400 more shootings than at this point last year. America’s third-largest city has a 21 percent increase in homicides. On Monday evening, 11-month-old boy was wounded in a south-side shooting that also killed his pregnant mother and his grandmother in a heinous accident.
The Chicago heavy violence has been widely seen to have stemmed from a very lethal combination of gangs, illegal guns, and lots of drugs. in response to the Monday shootings, Mayor Rahm Emanuel set his focus on gangs for the most part above others.
Wherever you live, you must be able to get out of your car and go to your home... [It is the] time that our criminal justice system and the laws as it relates to access to any guns and the penalties for using them reflect the values of the people of the city of Chicago.” he said.
Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy told PBS that police have confscated more illegal guns in Chicago city alone. That is more than Los Angeles and New York City combined in the frst half of the year. Drug traffcking is also a major factor, with as much as 80 percent of the illegal drugs throughout Chicago estimated to come from the Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s Sinaloa mexican drug cartel.
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When tourists returned to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, there was a site to see: disaster. Suddenly, along with going on a Ghost Tour, visiting the Backstreet Cultural Museum, and lunching at Dooky Chase’s one could see the devastation upon the Lower Ninth Ward. Buses full of strangers with cameras were rumbling through the neighborhood as it tried to get back on its feet.
Michigan sociologist, Kiar Opu, took and sent a small photograph of a small handmade sign propped up in the Lower Ninth, shaming visitors for what sociologists call “disaster tourism,” a practice that is criticized from objectifying the suffering of others.
Imagine having lost loved ones and seeign your house destroyed. After a year out of town, you’re in your nastiest clothes, mucking sludge out of your house, fearful that the money will run out before you can get the house fxed. The house your grandmother bought and passed down to you through your mother. Imagine that you are out pushing a heavy full wheelbarrow through the hot sunlight, blink as you adjust to
TOURIST - Sh ame on you Driving by without stopping Paying to see my pain, 1,600+ DIED HERE.”
A bus full of cameras snap you. Taking selfsh photographs of your trauma, effort, and fear. And then they take those photos back to their cozy, dry homes and show it to their friends, and they sit around and talk about how cool it was that they got to see the aftermath from the food, terrible. New Orleans is one of the largest destinations for the college youth for their spring break, and middle age adults acting with the same
Tourism” has a big hold on New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
