Show of CHICAGO burglary insurance rates are to be raised because of heavy losses of the companies chicago may 7 the activity ot burglars has made but glary insurance in chicago unprofitable to the companies that have been placing it the announcement that a new high schedule of rates on burglary insurance will go into effect here on july 1 has brought to light some startling facts in connection with this clasa ot insurance representatives of prominent insurance compan lea acknowledge that tn the last ten years the chicago agen cles handling burglary insurance have sustained a loss 0 from to in spite of the fact that the rates here aro from 25 to 40 per cent higher than la new york philadelphia and other large cities during iho last five year the number of burglaries and thefts in chicago has increased to an alarming extent insurance men say several companies have cither stopped taking risks or have transferred their business to some other company |