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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.
More than 100 people were shot in Chicago, 19 of them fatally, over the long Independence Day weekend, when there is often a spike in violence. One mass shooting Thursday in a neighborhood on ...
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 ...
On October 29, 2023, at around 1:05 a.m., a mass shooting occurred at a business hosting a Halloween party, wounding fifteen people. [1] Police alleged that the shooter was a partygoer that was thrown out of the venue, who later returned with a handgun and fired into a crowd of people.
Chicago: 2021-03-31: Latino man shot by Chicago police, body camera footage showed he was shot in back while fleeing from police with a gun in his hand [80] Killing of Zheng Shaoxiong: Chicago: 2021-11-09: International student from China fatally shot near the University of Chicago [81] Killing of Sonya Massey: Springfield: 2024-07-06
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.
The number of people slain so far in 2024: 156. That’s 15 fewer people killed when compared with 2023. Greater Grand Crossing leads all community areas with the most homicides so far in 2024 — 13.
The shooting was significant because it happened a week after a shooting in downtown Chicago's Millennium Park where a teen was shot and killed and led the city to enforce a curfew for young people. [5] Three days after the shooting, 21-year-old Chicago native Jaylun Sanders was named by Cook County prosecutors as the perpetrator of the ...