
Robert Gehl reports that it’s been a very deadly holiday weekend in Chicago – and the last 15 hours have been the deadliest.
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Between noon Monday and 3 a.m. Tuesday, 32 people were shot, doubling the total from the entire three previous nights, authorities said.
The land where handguns are effectively banned, and gun control is the law of the land saw a five-year-old girl and seven-year-old boy shot and wounded in Englewood. The two children were outside playing with fireworks when someone started shooting.
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The girl and the boy, who are cousins, were playing outside in a group of children when someone came out of a gang way and fired shots, according to family. Dozens of people were on the block, and people scattered, The Chicago Tribune is reporting.
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The attacks brings the total number of shootings over the three-day weekend to 60.

Gun violence – shootings and murders – are so commonplace in Chicago that the Tribune doesn’t even fully cover every incident. They just run short paragraphs on each one. It would take up the entire paper to fully cover the crime in that city. Here are those paragraphs as they appeared at the end of the Tribune article:
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In other shootings:
- Two people were shot in the 800 block of North Lavergne Avenue in the Austin neighborhood about 3:05 a.m. A man, between 18 and 25 years old, walked into West Suburban Medical Center seeking treatment for a gunshot wound. A woman he was with, 30, was also shot in the back. She was transferred from West Sub to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, police said. They were in a car at a stop sign when someone shot at their car, police said.
- A few minutes earlier, a 28-year-old man was shot in the 1000 block of North Latrobe. He also walked into West Sub about the same time as the victims from Lavergne. He’s in good condition. It’s not clear how he came to be shot.
- Three people were shot near the corner of Ohio Street and Christiana Avenue the East Garfield Park neighborhood about 3 a.m. A 24-year-old woman was grazed and taken to Stroger in good condition, police said. Two men, 34 and 36, were each left in serious condition with multiple gunshot wounds. The 34-year-old was taken to Stroger and the 36-year-old to Mount Sinai, police said. Someone inside a gold Chrysler fired at a crowd as they were standing outside, police said.
- A 35-year-old man walked into Advocate Trinity Hospital seeking treatment for a gunshot wound about 2:45 a.m., police said. He wasn’t sure where he was shot but police found his shot-up car near 92nd and Merrill Avenue, police said. Investigators later determined he had been shot in the 1900 block of East 87th Street.
- Someone shot a 22-year-old woman in the 6800 block of South Campbell Avenue about 2:30 a.m. She’s in serious condition with head and shoulder wounds, police said. She was sitting in a parked car when a man walked up and opened fire, police said. She was taken to Christ Hospital.
- A 19-year-old was shot in the leg in the East Garfield Park neighborhood about 2:15 a.m. He was near the corner of Pulaski Road and Wilcox Avenue when shot but was uncooperative, police said. His condition was stabilized at Stroger Hospital.
- Three people were shot in the 1100 block of North Ridgeway Avenue in the Humboldt Park neighborhood about 1:35 a.m. One man, 34, died at the scene. A 29-year-old woman was shot in the right leg, right knee and right shoulder and was taken to Stroger Hospital in serious condition. A 31-year-old woman was shot in the right hand and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, police said. The man was talking to two women, who were sitting in a car, when an argument started and two people fired toward the man, hitting him and the two women.
- Someone shot a 26-year-old woman in the right leg in the 11500 block of South Racine Avenue in the West Pullman neighborhood. She also suffered a graze wound to her head. She was walking into a home on the block about 1:35 a.m. when she heard an argument and then gunfire. She was taken to Roseland Hospital and doctors there stabilized her condition.
- A 20-year-old woman was grazed downtown during a shooting near Jackson Boulevard and Michigan Avenue, police said. The shooting happened about 1 a.m. The woman was treated by paramedics from Ambulance 41 at the scene. The shooting happened as she saw a group of young men running toward her.
- Someone shot a man in the Brighton Park neighborhood about 12:40 a.m., police said. The incident happened in a gas station at Archer Avenue and 39th Place. The 23-year-old man shot was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in serious condition.
- A 26-year-old man walking through an alley in the 6200 block of South Drexel Avenue about 12:20 a.m. was shot in the face by someone who fired at least 20 rounds toward him. He was confronted by three people, one of whom opened fire, and was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition after he was shot, police said.
- Someone shot a 15-year-old boy in the first block west of State Street on 79th Street about 12 a.m. Tuesday. He was walking out of a store when someone stepped out of a car and fired toward the boy, hitting him in the leg. He’s in critical condition at Comer Children’s Hospital.
- Two teens were shot in the 10500 block of South Yates Boulevard about 11:35 p.m. They were in a car when someone in another car fired toward them, hitting them both. A 17-year-old girl was shot in the right shoulder and a 19-year-old man was grazed in the back, police said. Both were treated at Advocate Trinity Hospital.
- A man in his 30s was killed Monday night in the 6900 block of South Clyde Avenue in the South Shore neighborhood. Police responded to a traffic crash and found him in the street, shot in the abdomen. The man was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, police said, but later pronounced dead. That happened about 9:20 p.m.
- About the same time, two men were shot in the 5700 block of South May Street, police said. A 24-year-old man was shot in left hand, back and right leg and taken to Stroger Hospital and a 37-year-old man wounded in the same incident was taken to Saint Bernard Hospital in good condition. He had a leg wound. Someone on foot fired shots toward them, hitting them both.
- A 24-year-old man was left in critical condition with a chest wound from a shooting in the 1800 block of West Erie Street about 9 p.m., police said. He was at a party when someone on a bike fired toward the man, hitting him in the chest.
- About 8:30 p.m., someone shot a 29-year-old man in the leg in the 7200 block of South Artesian Avenue. He was outside in a crowd when someone walked up and shot him in the leg. He’s in good condition at Advocate Christ Medical Center.
- About 7:15 p.m. a 32-year-old man shot shot on the 1700 block of North Mozart Street in the Logan Square neighborhood, police said. The man was walking when he was shot in the left knee, police said. The man, who is a gang member, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition stabilized, police said.
- At 2:15 p.m., a person was shot on the 1500 block of West Garfield Boulevard in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, said Officer Thomas Sweeney, a police spokesman. A 17-year-old was in a vehicle that was stopped when another vehicle pulled up and shots were fired, hitting the teen in the shoulder, Sweeney said. The teen was taken to St. Bernard Hospital, where his condition had stabilized.
- At 1:25 p.m., a 33-year-old man was shot on the 9800 block of South Ingleside Avenue in the Cottage Grove Heights neighborhood on the South Side, Sweeney said. The man was shot in the buttocks and leg and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center, where his condition was stabilized. The man was on the street when a van pulled up and people exited and began firing.
- Around 12:15 p.m. in the Princeton Park neighborhood on the Southeast Side, a 27-year-old man was shot on the 200 block of West 95th Street, Sweeney said. The man was shot in the legs and was taken to Little Company of Mary Hospital in good condition, Sweeney said.







