The words "great city" is one of the most hollow phrases that gets repeated over and over in this country. A city is only as good as the ppl who live there. The country is in trouble culturally.
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Chicago’s blood-soaked Independence Day: 62 injured, 4 killed
Published time: 5 Jul, 2016 19:28
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CBS Chicago report how at least three children were caught up in the shootings, including an 8-year-old boy and 5-year-old girl who were hit by stray bullets while playing in the West Englewood neighbourhood.
Four men comprised the dead, one of whom was reportedly gunned down by two males after an argument in the middle of the street in North Ridgeway.
The number of gun crime victims has now risen to more than 2,000 in the city since January 1, according to the Chicago Tribune’s independent index on gun crime.
The shootings, spread out over the city on Monday, are a slight decrease on last year’s July 4 figures, when 55 people were injured in shootings, 10 of them fatally.
Gun violence has plagued Chicago and marred this year’s Memorial Day weekend when almost 70 people were injured in gunfire.
In an effort to curb the violence on the streets of Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel launched an anti-gun campaign in April called Put The Guns Down.
The campaign enlisted the help of rapper Common, who featured on a track calling for people to “put the guns down and do better.”
But the gun continues to cast a shadow over a city home to around 2.7 million people, something which Mayor Emanuel has blamed on repeat offenders and “weak gun laws.”
On Friday the mayor announced that together with senators Kwame Raoul, Antonio Munoz and Michael Zalewski, the state is working on a bill to give people who repeatedly commit gun offences longer prison sentences.
“For decades Chicago has faced a historic challenge with gun crimes at the hands of repeat offenders,” Emanuel acknowledged in a statement on Friday.
“Stronger state laws will deter repeat gun offenders, stronger state laws will stop the dangerous turnstile in our justice system, and strong state laws will save lives.”
say was a domestic dispute.stabbed to death in what policefather’s auto shop, and a personman who was killed outside hisschool, a 31-year-olda lot across the street from an elementaryman who was found shot dead inshot in the abdomen, anothera man in his 30s who police foundThe homicide victims includedJohnson said Tuesday.many people willing to use them,”on the streets of Chicago and toofact that we have too many guns“It’s another example of theincreased.where patrols had beenon the South and West sidesMonday and early Tuesday, mostlydozen shooting incidents lateYet there were more than twomost violent in Chicago.weekend, historically among thedecline in violence for the holidaythat the city would see a markedJohnson to express optimismPolice Superintendent Eddie36 others had been injured, leadingthree people had been killed andAs of early Monday night,killed and 66 wounded in 2014.the July 4 weekend, and 16 were10 killed and 55 wounded duringyears. Last year, police reportedcompared with previousfatalities this holiday weekendthis year, recorded fewer gun violenceand Los Angeles combined so farmore homicides than New YorkChicago, which has talliedviolent neighborhoods.members in two of the city’s mostand the arrest of 88 gangby the Chicago Police Departmentdespite stepped-up street patrolsalready this year, continuedwhich has recorded 329 homicidesThe grim violence in Chicago,wounded, one by stabbing.weekend, and five people were fatallycity over the Independence Dayshot in the nation’s third largestCHICAGO At least 64 people were
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Chicago’s blood-soaked Independence Day: 62 injured, 4 killed
Published time: 5 Jul, 2016 19:28
Get short URL
© Jim Young / Reuters USA Today.
CBS Chicago report how at least three children were caught up in the shootings, including an 8-year-old boy and 5-year-old girl who were hit by stray bullets while playing in the West Englewood neighbourhood.
Four men comprised the dead, one of whom was reportedly gunned down by two males after an argument in the middle of the street in North Ridgeway.
The number of gun crime victims has now risen to more than 2,000 in the city since January 1, according to the Chicago Tribune’s independent index on gun crime.
The shootings, spread out over the city on Monday, are a slight decrease on last year’s July 4 figures, when 55 people were injured in shootings, 10 of them fatally.
Gun violence has plagued Chicago and marred this year’s Memorial Day weekend when almost 70 people were injured in gunfire.
In an effort to curb the violence on the streets of Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel launched an anti-gun campaign in April called Put The Guns Down.
The campaign enlisted the help of rapper Common, who featured on a track calling for people to “put the guns down and do better.”
But the gun continues to cast a shadow over a city home to around 2.7 million people, something which Mayor Emanuel has blamed on repeat offenders and “weak gun laws.”
On Friday the mayor announced that together with senators Kwame Raoul, Antonio Munoz and Michael Zalewski, the state is working on a bill to give people who repeatedly commit gun offences longer prison sentences.
“For decades Chicago has faced a historic challenge with gun crimes at the hands of repeat offenders,” Emanuel acknowledged in a statement on Friday.
“Stronger state laws will deter repeat gun offenders, stronger state laws will stop the dangerous turnstile in our justice system, and strong state laws will save lives.”
say was a domestic dispute.stabbed to death in what policefather’s auto shop, and a personman who was killed outside hisschool, a 31-year-olda lot across the street from an elementaryman who was found shot dead inshot in the abdomen, anothera man in his 30s who police foundThe homicide victims includedJohnson said Tuesday.many people willing to use them,”on the streets of Chicago and toofact that we have too many guns“It’s another example of theincreased.where patrols had beenon the South and West sidesMonday and early Tuesday, mostlydozen shooting incidents lateYet there were more than twomost violent in Chicago.weekend, historically among thedecline in violence for the holidaythat the city would see a markedJohnson to express optimismPolice Superintendent Eddie36 others had been injured, leadingthree people had been killed andAs of early Monday night,killed and 66 wounded in 2014.the July 4 weekend, and 16 were10 killed and 55 wounded duringyears. Last year, police reportedcompared with previousfatalities this holiday weekendthis year, recorded fewer gun violenceand Los Angeles combined so farmore homicides than New YorkChicago, which has talliedviolent neighborhoods.members in two of the city’s mostand the arrest of 88 gangby the Chicago Police Departmentdespite stepped-up street patrolsalready this year, continuedwhich has recorded 329 homicidesThe grim violence in Chicago,wounded, one by stabbing.weekend, and five people were fatallycity over the Independence Dayshot in the nation’s third largestCHICAGO At least 64 people were
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