Where are the Homicides in Chicago?

Recently, CNN did a report on the high number of homicides that is plaguing Chicago. One of the sure fire solutions suggested was to place more police in the areas where these killings occur. It got me wondering where these homicides actually occur.

Using the code from my previous post, I called the crime API that the city of Chicago provides and plotted out all the reported homicides between August 1st, 2011 and May 31st, 2012. There were 403 in total.

Now where did these incidents occur?

Initially it looks as if the homicides are wide spread throughout the city. However, if we do a breakdown by neighborhood it becomes obvious that some are much worse off than others. Below is a table of each Chicago neighborhood and its associated number of homicides between August 1st, 2011 and May 31st, 2012. I've also provided a more convenient graphical representation of this table. The Mathematica code and data files I used for this post can be found here.