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The shootings occurred hours before Attorney General Merrick Garland was expected to travel to the city to launch an effort to reduce surging gun violence. 3 mass shootings in Chicago leave a 14 ...
Six people have died and at least 20 others were wounded in weekend shootings across Chicago. A shooting early Saturday in the city's North Lawndale neighborhood killed one man and wounded four ...
So far this year, gun violence — both homicides and nonfatal shootings — is declining, welcome news in a city battered by a 60% increase in shootings over a two-year period in 2020 and 2021.
Chicago saw a major rise in violent crime starting in the late 1960s. Murders in the city peaked in 1974, with 970 murders when the city's population was over three million, resulting in a murder rate of around 29 per 100,000, and again in 1992, with 943 murders when the city had fewer than three million people, resulting in a murder rate of 34 murders per 100,000 citizens.
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According to initial reports, 82 people were shot, 19 fatally, in Chicago over the May 30–31 weekend. The weekend surpassed the previous May 23–24 weekend, which was the most deadly Memorial Day weekend in Chicago since 2015 with 49 individuals shot in total and 9 deaths, becoming the most deadly weekend of the year to that date. Over half ...
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Victims included a 13-year-old boy on a bicycle who was shot at from a car and a 41-year-old man killed during an armed robbery. At least 6 dead and 26 injured after violent weekend of shootings ...