Posted on 05/07/2018 2:27:58 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The last seven days in Chicago have been the most violent week of the year, with just three police districts on the West Side bearing the brunt of the recent violence, according to data kept by the Tribune.
At least 85 people were shot between Monday, April 30, and this past Sunday, including a 4-year-old girl, a 12-year-old boy, a 15-year-old on a CTA bus, a young mother, several other young teens, a federal agent and two relatives of a gunshot victim waiting outside a hospital.
Of those shot, at least nine died.
The city had been averaging about 42 shootings each week this year, according to Tribune data. With last weeks shootings, the average rises to almost 45 people a week. The least violent period was the week of Feb. 5, when 16 people were shot in Chicago.
Nearly half of those shot in the last week were hit by gunfire in three police districts that have long been troubled by violence: Harrison, Ogden and Austin.
The recent burst of violence brings the number of people shot in the city this year to at least 804, according to data kept by the Tribune. That's below the previous two years, when violence hit record levels. Last year at this time, 1,087 people had been shot. In 2016, the number was 1,199. But this year's numbers are still substantially higher than other recent years.
Homicides have followed the same pattern, with at least 161 this year. That compares to 198 this time last year, and 205 in 2016, according to Tribune data.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
At the end of the parade, it's the people and organizations who buy Illinois bonds who pay the medical bills. Check your investment portfolios to see how much you are contributing.
Yeah, but we probably won’t want to claim him. A real character, but a real bad egg who provided the template for the political culture for which Chicago has become notorious.
On a side note, I have a slight personal connection to him. A distant cousin of mine, James Thompson, of Randolph County, did the original surveying of Chicago. His tools are at the Chicago Historical Society. He died in the 1870’s. When Big Bill was mayor, he dedicated James’ new gravestone at the cemetery in Preston, a wide spot in the road in the boondocks of southern Illinois. I don’t think we are related.
Are they sharing that body???????
Its a bird, a plane a ghettopotamus,no its Batman.
I'd wager that God cares.
Reading that article sounds like a number of those shot were “passersby”
Maybe if they had some strict gun laws, and forced people not to carry guns this wouldn’t happen.
Yeah, but nowadays you cant say theyre badder than Ol King Kong
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