jamesbond wrote:
The crime is so high in Chicago that women have a can of mace in their purse at all times. So if you approach a woman to strike up a conversation with her, she might think you are trying to rob her so she might mace you in the face!

Hardly the truth at all. Women from Chicago's suburbs are going right into Chicago's enormous ghetto and hooking up with those violent criminals. Some Northern Illinois women have developed such a hatred for "nice guys" that they have their thug boyfriend by her side at all times while out in public, so actually, if you approach a woman especially in inner city Chicago, especially in areas like Downtown, the Loop area, the Museum Campus area, Chinatown, Little Italy, West Loop, South Loop, North Loop, River North, areas around Navy Pier, the United Center, UIC, U.S. Cellular Field, McCormick Place, Soldier Field, University of Chicago, the Museum of Science and Industry, Wrigley Field, DePaul University, Oak Street Beach, Lincoln Park, and even the Wicker Park area, chances are high that her boyfriend will blast you flat on the ground with his AK-47 rifle! Or worse, the boyfriend's entire flash mob could be waiting to ambush any guy who approaches the woman and blast him with multiple AK-47s.
In the inner city of Chicago, a faceful of mace or pepper spray for trying to strike up a conversation with a woman is easily the least of any single guy's worries! It's the boyfriends/fiancees/husbands of those ladies, carrying AK-47s, the rounds of which can rip through both steel and concrete and still retain enough velocity to cause death and serious injury, that you really need to be worried about!