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Last year over the long holiday weekend, 57 people were shot and eight were killed between Friday, June 30 at 6 p.m. and Tuesday, July 4 at 11:59 p.m., according to Chicago police.
At 19 people were killed in the shootings including an 8-year-old boy, police said At least 100 people shot in Chicago over July 4th weekend — a startling 27 percent increase from last year Skip ...
A man suspected of shooting and killing eight people in suburban Chicago this weekend was related to most of the victims, authorities said Tuesday, a day after the 23-year-old fatally shot himself ...
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.
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.
CHICAGO — Sixty-one people were shot, including a 3-year-old boy, and at least 12 of those died from their wounds this weekend in Chicago. There were at least 29 people shot on Sunday alone ...
CHICAGO — At least 78 people were shot in Chicago this weekend, 11 of them fatally — including Chicago police Officer Ella French — according to Chicago police. French, 29, and another ...
Dorothy Day, who was present, wrote: "On Memorial Day, May 30, 1937, police opened fire on a parade of striking steel workers and their families at the gate of the Republic Steel Company, in South Chicago. Fifty people were shot, of whom 10 later died; 100 others were beaten with clubs." [5]