Democratic Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has sparked debate after describing Chicago’s recent summer as “truly an amazing summer” during a Thursday appearance on the podcast Pod Save America, even as the city tallied 123 murders between June, July, and August, according to an analysis by WBEZ Chicago.
While the summer’s murder count was the lowest for that period since 1965, the statistic still represents well over one homicide per day.
Pritzker used the podcast platform to counter President Donald Trump’s characterization of Chicago as a “hellhole,” citing what he claimed was record-breaking tourism for the city and the state of Illinois…