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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 ...
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 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 of the May 30–31 weekend victims were shot on Sunday. [32]
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 ...
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.
Magnificent Mile shooting. On May 19, 2022, a mass shooting occurred in Chicago, Illinois, United States, in the city's Magnificent Mile shopping district, near Michigan Avenue. [4] Two people were killed, and eight others were injured. [5] The accused perpetrator, Jaylun Sanders, was taken into custody by Chicago police.
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 ...
1+. July 23 – 26, 1877. Labor. Chicago railroad strike of 1877 - Part of a nationwide wave of strikes by railroad workers after most rail companies slashed wages. The majority of deaths occurred during the Battle of the Viaduct, where workers threw stones and fired at police who then returned fire.