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A drive-by shooting in Chicago left three people injured in the 3400 block of West 79th Street, the police department said.CHICAGO (WLS) -- One person has been killed and at least 14 others were wounded in weekend shootings across Chicago. A man died after he was shot Saturday while ...
"We went grocery shopping yesterday. He came out and brought in the groceries that we were going to do for the barbecue today, and that was the last time I saw him," David DeVeaux Sr. said. Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown held a news conference Tuesday morning, where he said ...
Chicago Shootings Inflame Tensions; A College Student Who Was One of Two People Killed by a Chicago Police Officer Saturday Had a Baseball Bat and Was Agitated, According to Details That Emerged Sunday from Family Members Who Also Said the Officer Over-Reacted in Opening Fire. [Derived Headline...
CHICAGO (AP) — Activists and local leaders called for more state and federal support Sunday as weekend shootings across Chicago left three children dead, including a 10-year-old who was struck by a stray bullet that came through an apartment window. The
People should be working now, the pope said, to ensure a similar tragedy can never happen again. In the U.S., his sentiment was shared by another senior Catholic leader: Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago. “The Second Amendment did not come down from Sinai,” Cupichsaid...
Chicago is one of the nation's gun violence hotspots and a seemingly ideal place to employ Illinois' "red flag" law that allows police to step in and take firearms away from people who threaten to kill. But amid more than 8,500 shootings resulting in 1,800 deaths since 2020, the law ...
J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, signed legislation earlier this month spurred largely by an Independence Day parade shooting that killed seven and injured dozens in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park. The law bans the sale or possession of dozens of specific types of semi-automatic guns and high-...
Grace Pai, a director of organizing at Chicago’s Asian Americans Advancing Justice branch, called that characterization of the attacks “a real slap in the face to anyone who identifies as an Asian American woman.” “We know exactly what this racialized misogyny looks like,” Pai sai...
A Chicago shooting left a teen boy killed in the 8700 block of South Cregier Avenue on the South Side, the police department said.CHICAGO (WLS) -- It was supposed to be an exciting end of the summer for two Chicago Public Schools students. In fact, one had his backpack ready in ...