Posted on 05/28/2025 7:16:27 AM PDT by Salman
... But this year, with four men killed and at least 21 others wounded in shootings across the city, Chicago saw the least violent Memorial Day weekend in at least 16 years. ...
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It’s part of a decline in violent crime citywide, as last year was the first since 2019 with fewer than 600 homicides and a nearly three-year upswing in robberies ended last summer.
But the drop this year was even more historic. In an analysis of shootings going back to 2010 by the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, this past weekend saw the lowest number of total shooting victims. The most violent Memorial Day weekend in that time was in 2016, when 59 people were wounded and seven killed in gunfire.
Shootings dipped and then spiked again at the start of the pandemic in 2020. Eleven people were killed and 42 wounded over the Memorial Day weekend that year, when then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot called the violence a “bloodbath” and a “fail” on the part of CPD leadership.
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(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
What passes for good news in Chicago.
Chicago still sucks. Only less so.
It was cold and rainy. Helped keep the vermin off the streets.
A good place to station military medical trainees as those wounds are what you see in battle.
Weather related only. It rained on their murder party.
You beat me by five minutes. Critical thinking coffee this morning.
FIVE people to write this feel good story.
Only four killed (Hey, Jackass, says it’s now up to five)
They’ve got a lot of catching up to do, but the summer killing season is just starting:
Final Demonized Tally 2025: 5 killed, 24 wounded
2024 Memorial Day tally: 11 killed, 41 wounded
2023 Memorial Day tally: 14 killed, 48 wounded
2022 Memorial Day tally: 12 killed, 43 wounded
2021 Memorial Day tally: 4 killed, 38 wounded
2020 Memorial Day tally: 10 killed, 43 wounded
2019 Memorial Day tally: 8 killed, 35 wounded
2018 Memorial Day tally: 8 killed, 31 wounded
2017 Memorial Day tally: 7 killed, 44 wounded
2016 Memorial Day tally: 10 killed, 67 wounded
2015 Memorial Day tally: 12 killed, 45 wounded
Average tally: 10 killed, 44 wounded
Well, there had to be a Mohammad in there for diversitys sake.
Maybe their AI machine broke and it took five of them to come up with the right words. /s
What a ridiculous article.
Be proud Chicago, be Chicago! Maybe get some taco bell and a mountain dew, you deserve it.
great site-
every time shi-cago comes up— I mention this site to
my lib relatives, finally stopped bringing up the
“news” from Chicago
Will here in Redmond Oregon, volunteers put out 1,700 flags downtown and the local VFW decorated the local veteran’s cemetery with an additional 250 flags before their ceremony at 11:00.
They’re just reloading.
You can find a link to that and a few more fun sites at https://headlineoftheday.com/
That was going to be my question, thanks for answering.
Weather makes a big difference in body count.
Finally killing each other off.
Maybe they’ve grown a bit tired of killing each other.
There aren’t enough cops to investigate all those shooting.
Might as well put them all into the cold case file as soon as one them happens. Cold cases forever.
Reality is that, the Chicago police force is useless against the BOB crimes (black on black), and if they do get involved, they’ll be accused of some form of discrimination or police brutality.
Just build a wall around the area where most of those deaths occur, and just collect the bodies when they happen.
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