7 People Shot Across Chicago On Thursday

CBS Chicago ^ | 3/24/2017 | Staff

[UCANSEE2]

It is not sloppy English.

Since they shootings happened in various locations ACROSS THE CITY, it is logical to say ACROSS CHICAGO.

[RightGeek]

[\/\/ayne]

[simpson96]

*can’t stop laughing*

[dznutz]

Don’t forget Rahm’s motto, “never let a crisis go to waste.”

[VietVet876]

Statistics indicate the need for more range time.

[dp0622]

Yeah with Tommy Guns and everything!! :)

[dp0622]

you are absolutely right.

[mquinn]

Yea, keep on propping up dead tree media there, sport.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Nothing has changed for the better on the south side. There are neighborhoods that you just have to get a glimpse of from the expressway and they make the hair stand up on your neck. You know that they are the last places you would ever want to be. That area around 13300 S. Indiana has a special dystopian feel to it. It’s pretty much where Chicago ends. It’s wedged in between the landfills and the old steel mills along the Calumet River. There are some houses and apartments and plenty of vacant lots. You can pass through there sometimes and never see another living soul. Except there’s a panhandler who camps out on the median at 130th and Indiana — he’s been there for years, lying on the median with his stuff, plying his trade. Once in a while they find a body dumped around there. A few years back they found some bones, thinking they might have belonged to one of two young girls — sisters— who vanished without a trace over a decade ago, but they turned out not to be.

[Lurker]

Wait for today’s numbers. It hit 75 degrees here. The Morlocks are restless.

L

[Lazamataz]

It is not sloppy English. Since they shootings happened in various locations ACROSS THE CITY, it is logical to say ACROSS CHICAGO.

It's awkward, at best.

Tax-chick, your professional opinion?

[Lurker]

I used to work that area back when there were actual businesses.

It hasn’t gotten any better.

L

[Tax-chick]

The problem with the use of "across Chicago" here is that the possible meaning "from one side to the other" seems to come through more strongly than another possibility, "in several widely-dispersed places."

"7 People Shot Across Chicago on Thursday."

Seven people lined up at the city limit on the east side of Chicago. They drew their weapons, and they shot. All the way across Chicago to the western city line!

This potential meaning lurks behind the intended one, making a grammar geek feel faintly queasy. Using "around Chicago" would create the same sense of discomfort. The colloquial meaning is trying to override the literal meaning, but it's not quite getting there.

[MinuteGal]

"7 People Shot Across Chicago On Thursday....."

.....and summer isn't even here yet !

Leni

[UCANSEE2]

If one reads the article, the shootings happened to the NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, and WEST. ACROSS means from one side to the other , of an item or area, such as a city.

These shootings happened, LITERALLY, ACROSS the CITY of Chicago.

Awkward sounding it may be, but proper English it is.

[UCANSEE2]

Whether the author chose to use IN or AROUND or ACROSS seems rather unimportant compared to the fact that TONS of people in/around/across Chicago are being killed.

Now, someone will probably complain that I said TONS, even though the reality is that if you weighed the people who have been killed so far, it would be at least several tons.

[Lazamataz]

Awkward sounding it may be, but proper English it is.

Speaking like Yoda, you are.

[mquinn]

So you ask for someone’s expert opinion, yet still argue when that person doesn’t agree?

Ok there, snowflake.