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  • At least 42 people shot in Chicago over Memorial Day weekend

    05/28/2019 12:51:03 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 50 replies
    Chicago Tribune ^ | 5-28-19 | Alice Yin and Jeremy Gorner
    t least 42 people were shot, seven fatally, in Chicago over the Memorial Day weekend even as severe storms kept people indoors and 1,200 extra officers patrolled the streets. The toll was slightly higher than last year’s Memorial Day weekend, when 39 people were shot, seven of them fatally, according to shooting data kept by the Tribune. In 2017, 45 people were shot, seven of them killed. And in 2016, 71 people shot, six of them fatally, in one of the most violent Memorial Day weekends in recent years. “That is just an unacceptable state of affairs,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot...