Happy Anniversary
Posted on January 25, 2016
Back in 2012, the combination of a rapidly rising body count along with the infamous uttering of the phrase “Chicago values” came together like chocolate and peanut better and the idea of a dashboard based on the “Chicago values” of murder, crime and mayhem was born.
On this day in 2013, we went live with a site that contained just a handful of homicide related charts. We didn’t track shootings nor did we, thankfully, provide any commentary.
Since then we’ve recorded nearly 1,500 homicides and 8,000 people shot. We’ve posted hundreds of pieces of poorly written commentary and have made thousands upon thousands of hours worth of updates, edits and additions.
We’d like to thank everyone who has visited, commented, emailed, followed, linked and liked and helped us make this idea a very minor success.
– The HeyJackass Crew