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With a month left in the year, Cook County has logged more than 1,000 homicides for the first time in 27 years. As of Tuesday midday, the medical examiner’s office had recorded 1,009 murders — 100 more than this time last year. The youngest person killed was a 1-month-old boy, the oldest an 84-year-old man. More than half the people murdered were under the age of 30. Black people made up 81 percent of homicide victims and Latinos made up nearly 15 percent, the medical examiner’s office said. The most homicides on record for any year in Cook County is...