“We want to make sure and show off that there’s no emergency happening in Chicago,” Gov. Pritzker of Illinois falsely claimed. “We’ve been fighting crime. We’ve been trying to prevent crime and it’s been working.”

Then he denied Chicago was a hellhole.

Is Chicago a hellhole? No, hellholes have fewer shootings and lower body counts. Chicago is what happens when you dig a tunnel under hell.

“At least five people were killed and 37 others were hurt in shootings across Chicago during Labor Day weekend, according to police.

The ages of the victims range from 14 to 50”.

The best part is the conclusion.

“Unless otherwise noted, no one is in custody in these shootings. “

Emergency? What emergency? Chicago doesn’t need any help.

“GOV. JB PRITZKER: Well, National Guard troops- any kind of troops on the streets of an American city don’t belong unless there is an insurrection, unless there is truly an emergency. There is not.”

“It’s working. Crime is down.”

Meanwhile, I was predicting Chicago would pass 200 by month’s end. I was wrong. So wrong. It’s now at 245 shot. In one month.

Now does that sound like a hellhole?

“Chicago should be open to the federal government support to tackle crime,” former mayoral candidate and activist Ja’Mal Green tells Axios.

“I stay on the South Side of Chicago. I’m living the experience,” Chicago Flips Red founder Danielle Carter-Walters told the Sun-Times. “You can’t sit in your car without worrying about being robbed, mugged, shot, carjacked.”

“We definitely need something to be done.”

Definitely.