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Gun violence is down across America this year but it peaks every summer and Chicago’s Fourth of July weekend bore the data out, with 109 people shot, including 19 fatally, police said in a ...
A violent weekend The downtown shootings last weekend started at 1 a.m. Saturday in the 300 block of North State Street. Two women from the North Lawndale neighborhood were shot by a man during an ...
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.
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 ...
At least six people died and as many as 26 others were injured in gun violence that sprawled across Chicago at the weekend. The identified victims were ages 13 to 64.
The violence on the evening of May 31, 2020 "spiraled out of control again," according to the New York Times. [ 62 ] The protestors took over the portion of Lafayette Square which served as the dividing line the night before, though as the night progressed well past curfew, the police were able to push crowds back to H Street, where the ...
Chicago saw its most violent Memorial Day weekend in five years, with 10 people dead and more than 200 guns recovered over the weekend. The city’s stay-at-home order did little to prevent ...
The city of Chicago has experienced another bloody and violent weekend as six people were fatally shot and 27 others were wounded by gunfire. The incidents included the slaying of one man and ...