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7 shot, 1 fatally, since Friday night in Chicago By Sun-Times Media Wire The weekend’s lone fatal shooting left The teen and two others were sitting in a parked vehicle about 9:45 p.m. in the 200 block of West 37th Street when a black Dodge Durango pulled up and two men exited and began shooting at them, Chicago police said. Davion Ward, 17, was struck in the back and was transported to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner�...

Sun-Times file photo A man was shot to death Monday in West Pullman on the Far South Side. Two people fired shots at the 21-year-old about 3:50 p.m. as he ran south in the 12000 block of South Lowe Avenue, Chicago police said. The man was struck multiple times in the body and taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, police said. The Cook County medical examiner’s office said the man died at the hospital less than an hour after he was shot. His identity has not been made public. Area Two de...

7 People Shot Overnight in Chicago as Gun Violence Rises 50% in City On 4/6/21 at 10:17 AM EDT Seven people were shot overnight in Chicago after a group got into a fight late Monday night. Chicago police said six men and one woman were shot in the citys Englewood neighborhood, near 68th and Justine streets, around 11 p.m. after a fight broke out on the sidewalk and shots were fired. The police department told Newsweek that the woman was seriously wounded, while the six men were described as be...

Chicago police are investigating at least seven homicides and shootings that injured at least 10 other people on Easter.

KATHERINE ROSENBERG-DOUGLAS Chicago Tribune At least seven people were shot to death in Chicago on Easter Sunday in separate attacks across the city, according to Chicago police. In the most recent fatal shooting, officers were dispatched to the 6800 block of South Throop Street in Englewood about 11:20 p.m., according to an online statement from Chicago police. There, a 45-year-old man was found lying on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds to his chest, officials said. The man�...

Sun-Times file photo Chicago saw an especially bloody Easter with at least seven people shot and killed citywide during the 24-hour period. The entire weekend’s toll was 34 people shot, eight of them fatally, in gun violence heavily concentrated on the South and West sides. Easter weekend was more deadly, but saw less shootings, than last weekend when 36 people were shot, four of them fatally, between 5 p.m. Friday and 5 a.m. Monday. Englewood homicide The last murder on Easter Sunday was a 4...

Pat Nabong; Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times file Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill aimed at fixing pensions for thousands of Chicago firefighters on Monday, rejecting Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s call to veto the legislation that she called “highly problematic.” The governor argued the pension fix ensures “certainty and fair treatment” for hardworking firefighters, but Republican lawmakers and fellow Democrat Lightfoot counter that it will sock already strapped taxpayers with another p...

With a quarter of 2021 already over, it has so far been the deadliest year in Chicago in four years as the city saw another spike in gun violence even before the warmer-weather months arrived.

Editorial: Big city violence is on the rise across the country. Chicago ended last year with a startling 55% increase in homicides over 2019. This year is not off to a good start. And summer is coming.

A shooter opened fire at a party, killing two people and injuring many others early Sunday morning on the South Side, police said.