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Englewood also refers to a neighborhood with some 3,000 inhabitants. The original inhabitants of Englewood where Mascoutin Indians. In 1840, Englewood was officially documented as habital land to the United States Government Land Office in Chicago. In the 1850s and 60's as Chicago was becoming a city of railroad tracks and an economic powerplant, Englewood was just another supporting neighborhood. In 1871, when the Great Chicago fire destroyed a large portion of Chicago, residents moved to the outskirts and Englewood was filling with people. From then until now Englewood has gone through the suffering from the Great Depression and racial discrimination. Today, Englewood is a vacant town with buildings falling apart and 43% percent of the residents living below the poverty line. Over 900 murders have occurred there in only 10 years.Gangs are at a premium in Englewood and gang turf is constantly fought over between the Gangster Disciples, Black P stones, Vice Lords, and Black Disciples. Englewoods crime and murder rate surpass almost every other neighborhood in Chicago. Larry Hoover who is currently surving a lifetime sentence in prison started the Gangster Disciples in Englewood(63rd and Halsted) which has become one of the largest and most dangerous gangs nation wide.One more chilling statistic: For every gun killing here, eight other people are shot but survive. Last year Chicago had 514 gun killings (of a total of 665 homicides), plus 4,179 firearms cases in which someone shot (and hit) someone else... width= .. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM maybe thats why Chicago has the worst murder rate in the U.S. img src="http://widget-93.slide.com/t/72057594038316947/images/s lide2.gif" ..