Exporting people – and crime
At about the same time that Chicago started tearing down its high-rise public housing, its police and prosecutors embarked on a massive crackdown that has reduced the city's crime rate each year since 1999. When crime moved out of Chicago, it moved into downstate communities.
Danville Public Safety Director Carl Alexander said from what he has seen, the people who are moving from Chicago to Danville and other central Illinois cities are not the ones creating a crime problem.
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