Chicago: 3 killed, 16 wounded in mass shooting outside downtown Chicago nightclub Artis Lounge

CBS News ^ | July 3, 2025 | Todd Feurer

[Governor Dinwiddie]

At least three people were killed and 16 others wounded in a mass shooting outside a nightclub in downtown Chicago late Wednesday night, authorities said.

Police confirmed multiple people were shot in the 300 block of West Chicago Avenue. A city official said 19 people were shot, three of them fatally in a drive-by shooting.

The shooting apparently happened as people were leaving the Artis Lounge nightclub following an album release party for rapper Mello Buckzz.

The same block was also the scene of a mass shooting in November 2022, when the same nightclub was known as Hush Lounge. One person was killed and three others wounded after a group that had been thrown out of Hush started fighting.

Police shut down the Hush nightclub after that shooting, and Artis Lounge later opened in the same location.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

It's THEM, Yogi.

[MCF]

At the same location in November of 2022 one was killed and three wounded.
Now, it’s three killed and 16 wounded. They have really upped their game. Impressive.

[Uversabound]

Amish

[Angelino97]

At the same location in November of 2022 one was killed and three wounded. Now, it’s three killed and 16 wounded. They have really upped their game. Impressive.

Not really. It's an even worse kill ratio.

Which is more impressive?

At a carnival, Joe throws four balls and knocks over one bottle. Pete throws sixteen balls and knocks over three bottles.

Joe is clearly the better player.

[Angelino97]

Sailer's Law of Mass Shootings: In incidents with four or more people killed or wounded by gunfire, if more are wounded than killed, the shooter (or often shooters) is probably black. But when more are killed than wounded, the shooter is likely nonblack.

[Antihero101607]

The name of the nightclub told me everything I needed to know about the demographics involved.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

In this ephemeral world of ever shifting standards and customs, it's a comfort to know that
the fixed star, the polar star, an immutable testament to science remains unchangeable:

Sailer's Law of Mass Shootings.

[21twelve]

I looked the place up on Google Earth. It didn’t have any signs with a name for a place. Just a non-descript building next to a Dunkin Donuts. The building did have a no firearm sign in the window.

[Celtic Conservative]

I think it’s called “aiming”.🤨🙄

CC

[donozark]

Mass shooting in Chiraq. How would anyone know? Its the norm.

[FreedomPoster]

White supremacists? Was it white supremacists again?

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[TermLimits4All]

There was another shooting in Savannah,GA inside the Oglethorpe Mall. Not a random shooting. 3 injured. https://www.wjcl.com/article/shooting-reported-at-oglethorpe-mall-in-savannah/65282008

[2nd Amendment]

I’m starting to believe the nightly shootings might include astrophysicists

[unread]

Rapping and caping, like eggs and bacon.

[dennisw]

What going on here, its not the weekend yet. And Chi-Town weekends are a blast.

[Elsie]

the amount of balls thrown was not reported.

[dennisw]

“album release party for rapper Mello Buckzz”

Rappers and their thug entourages are bullet magnets. Everybody loving the drama from guns and gunplay. Then he can write a new crap rap tune about it.

[Flavious_Maximus]

All those democrats killing each other off. More please. /spit

[twister881]

Thinning the troop...

[Sirius Lee]

The shooting apparently happened as people were leaving the Artis Lounge nightclub following an album release party for rapper Mello Buckzz.

What a beautiful culture.

Funny that you never see this kind of action with Yuja Wang (her name kills me) at Carnegie Hall or the BSO at Tanglewood.