Posted on 03/24/2017 6:28:12 AM PDT by simpson96
CHICAGO (CBS) At least seven people were wounded in separateshootings on Thursday in Chicago.
The latest attack happened about 11:30 p.m. in the Eden Green neighborhood on the Far South Side, where a 42-year-old man was walking in the 13300 block of South Indiana when a gunman opened fire from a parking lot nearby, according to Chicago Police. A bullet grazed his leg and he declined treatment.
An hour before that, a 20-year-old man was driving in Englewoods 6600 block of South Racine when he was shot in the head and he crashed into a parked car, police said. He was taken in critical condition to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
About 6:30 p.m., someone walked up to two men, ages 30 and 31, on a West Side Austin neighborhood sidewalk in the 4900 block of West Walton and opened fire, hitting the older man in the side and the younger in the arm. They were taken to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, where their conditions were stabilized, police said.
About the same time in Gresham, a gunman got out of a red SUV in the 8300 block of South Throop and shot a 38-year-old man in the leg as he stood on a sidewalk. His condition was stabilized at Christ Medical Center, police said.
Just after 6 p.m., a 24-year-old man who was shot in the head in Austins 5900 block of West Erie took himself to West Suburban Medical Center. He was uncooperative with investigators and transferred to Stroger Hospital, police said.
Thursdays first shooting happened about 2:15 p.m. in Logan Square on the Northwest Side. A 22-year-old woman was in the 3700 block of West Palmer when someone in a passing car shot her in the shoulder.
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It is not sloppy English.
Since they shootings happened in various locations ACROSS THE CITY, it is logical to say ACROSS CHICAGO.
*can’t stop laughing*
Don’t forget Rahm’s motto, “never let a crisis go to waste.”
Statistics indicate the need for more range time.
Yeah with Tommy Guns and everything!! :)
you are absolutely right.
Yea, keep on propping up dead tree media there, sport.
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.
Wait for today’s numbers. It hit 75 degrees here. The Morlocks are restless.
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It's awkward, at best.
Tax-chick, your professional opinion?
I used to work that area back when there were actual businesses.
It hasn’t gotten any better.
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"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.
.....and summer isn't even here yet !
Leni
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.
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.
Speaking like Yoda, you are.
So you ask for someone’s expert opinion, yet still argue when that person doesn’t agree?
Ok there, snowflake.
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