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July 4th weekend typically Chicago's most violent: analysis
Chicago Tribune ^ | June 29, 2016 | By Kyle Bentle and Jonathon Berlin

Posted on 06/30/2016 10:25:52 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The Fourth of July holiday is Monday, and if the long holiday weekend is anything like previous years, it could be one of the most violent of the summer.

The total number of Chicago shootings rises significantly during the summer months ­- - June, July and August. Those three months have the most shootings per month of the year from 2012 to 2015 combined, the years the Tribune has tracked the data. June, the lowest of the summer months, has a total of 1,137 shootings from 2012 to 2015, which is nearly 150 more than the nearest month, May.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: gangs

1 posted on 06/30/2016 10:25:52 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
They don' need no stinkin' fireworks to make noise!


2 posted on 06/30/2016 10:32:21 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We need the FBI to stop managing locals in Orlando and what they have a duty to tell us and move to Chicago quickly and take over that carnage investigation— I have a clue for them-— its black on black and gang driven. Why are these black gangs not “TERRORISTS”?


3 posted on 06/30/2016 10:37:12 AM PDT by WENDLE (Make America Great again. Arrest Hillary.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well it’s obvious that we need for more “common-sense gun control”, “closing the gun show loophole” and keeping all those guns from Indiana out of Chicago, blah, blah, blah, blah....


4 posted on 06/30/2016 10:50:58 AM PDT by PROCON (Americans First or Terrorists First - Choose in November)
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To: WENDLE

Why would the FBI be needed in Chicago? Everybody knows who the killers are.


5 posted on 06/30/2016 12:21:35 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just culling the heard!


6 posted on 06/30/2016 1:06:54 PM PDT by Renkluaf
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To: ozzymandus

They didn’t need them in Orlando — they just went to stop talk about ISLAM.


7 posted on 06/30/2016 4:43:30 PM PDT by WENDLE (Make America Great again. Arrest Hillary.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I hate admitting this but I am long past caring.

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8 posted on 06/30/2016 4:46:14 PM PDT by Mears (Afrocentrism is "the invention of tradition"-----Hobsbawm)
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