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Chicago, Illinois, USA.Even though levels of violent crime in Chicago are down from their epidemically high rates of the early 70s and 90s, the city is battling a consistent scourge of violence that has seen it in the top three US cities with the most murders every year since 1985. Barack Obama's home town recorded 2,436 shootings in 2014 to December with over 400 of them fatal. (KEYSTONE/VII Photo/Espen Rasmussen)