Thankfully, they are still alive and the assassins are in prison.
I was born in Chicago and grew up in a suburb 20 miles West .. plus, I'm Italian. I've never had a hit put out on me. I always felt pretty safe in Chicago .. within reason, of course. Any big city has its dangerous people and places.
Now, I live in Northern VA and find some of the locals a lot more "sketch" than I did back in IL. I guess it's all a matter of perception and where you spend your time though.