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Nearly half the people shot were in just three police districts: Deering and Englewood on the South Side, and Chicago Lawn on the Southwest Side.
The long July Fourth weekend in Chicago began with four men shot in Chicago Lawn and ended with five people shot and a man beaten to death in an attack in Englewood.
The new podcast “You Didn’t See Nothin” takes a critical look at the media narrative that followed the 1997 Armour Square neighborhood beating of 13-year-old Lenard Clark Jr., a Black child who lived in the Stateway Gardens public housing development, going to get air for his bike tire, by a group of white Bridgeport teens ages 17 to 19. Clark was beaten unconscious and suffered permanent ...
Police said there have been 3 robberies recently, all just before midnight.
History was made in Chicago when the first two Asian American women were elected to the City Council.