Crime is a top issue in Chicago mayoral race: How would nine candidates address it?

People wait outside police tape as Illinois State Police and Chicago police SWAT officers respond to a call in Old Town earlier this month. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere / Sun-Times file)

South Side resident Sherri Allen-Reeves is still looking for a candidate to support for Chicago mayor and, like many voters, she wants someone who can best address the city’s violent crime.

Allen-Reeves, 60, said she and her Auburn Gresham neighbors tend to live each day in a “state of fear.”