Each week in Chicago begins with a grim reckoning: reporters count up and record the victims of the weekend’s violence. Over Labor Day weekend, . A month before, . A year earlier, .In the last few years, crime in the city has skyrocketed. But the drumbeat of headlines has obscured the fact that Chicago wasn’t always like this.At the end of 2013, shootings and murders in Chicago had hit a near-record low, with just 421 murders and 2,100 nonfatal shootings, according to the . That’s not good—controlling for population, the murder rate in 2013 was triple the national average—but by 2016,...…Each week in Chicago begins with a grim reckoning: reporters count up and record the victims of the weekend’s violence. Over Labor Day weekend, . A month before, . A year earlier, .In the last few years, crime in the city has skyrocketed. But the drumbeat of headlines has obscured the fact that Chicago wasn’t always like this.At the end of 2013, shootings and murders in Chicago had hit a near-record low, with just 421 murders and 2,100 nonfatal shootings, according to the . That’s not good—controlling for population, the murder rate in 2013 was triple the national average—but by 2016,...WW…