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1,000 more people shot in Chicago compared with same time last year
Chicago Tribune ^ | 10/17/2016 | Staff

Posted on 10/17/2016 11:20:28 AM PDT by simpson96

A thousand more people have been shot in Chicago this year compared with the same time last year after a weekend that saw eight people killed and at least 40 wounded, according to police and data compiled by the Tribune.

At least 3,475 people had been shot in the city as of shortly after midnight Monday compared with 2,441 people shot this time last year, an increase of 1,034, according to Tribune data. There have been at least 595 homicides this year compared with 409 this time last year, an increase of 186.

The gun violence over the weekend was at levels usually seen in the summer when shootings typically spike.

A single attack Friday night in East Garfield Park killed one man and left six others wounded, according to police. The people were standing together in the 3300 block of West Maypole Street when someone opened fire from a black vehicle, police said.

An attack of that scale has not occurred in Chicago since 2014, when seven people -- including several young teens -- were shot in Lawndale.

The Maypole shooting capped off an exceptionally deadly night on the West Side. Less than a half-hour before, two men were fatally shot in a South Austin drive-by, police said. About an hour before that, an 18-year-old man was killed in West Garfield Park

But shootings occurred in nearly every corner of Chicago over the weekend, from a fatal attack in West Rogers Park to a shooting in Morgan Park near the southern border.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: bluezones; chicago; chicagocrime; chicagomurders; rahm; urban

1 posted on 10/17/2016 11:20:28 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96

Adding to the Democrat Dead voting bloc for the next century.


2 posted on 10/17/2016 11:23:08 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: simpson96
The people were standing together in the 3300 block of West Maypole Street when someone opened fire from a black vehicle, police said.

That's racist!

3 posted on 10/17/2016 11:24:45 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being stupid!)
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To: Tenacious 1

They listed the color of he car but not the color of the perps or victims.

It also didn’t say how many of these were caused by Police.


4 posted on 10/17/2016 11:26:12 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being stupid!)
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To: simpson96

Silver Lining: If this keeps up Illinois will lose another congressional seat and a guaranteed electoral vote for the dems.


5 posted on 10/17/2016 11:26:34 AM PDT by proudpapa (Trump 2016!!)
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To: simpson96

People don’t call it ‘Chiraq’ for nothing.


6 posted on 10/17/2016 11:27:21 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: simpson96
At least 3,475 people had been shot in the city as of shortly after midnight Monday compared with 2,441 people shot this time last year,

Now, that's progress!

7 posted on 10/17/2016 11:27:39 AM PDT by sailor76 (GO TRUMP!!! Make America Great Again!)
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To: simpson96

ChiTown folks need to get RID of their inane (and illegal) “gun control”

which only spotlights Chicago as a free-fire zone for every violent criminal that wants to rob people or just kill a few for sport

selling firearms freely in local stores will enable good honest Chicago citizens to defend themselves for a change
AND IT WILL IMMEDIATELY TELL the violent criminals that Chicago is no longer a free-fire zone, that they won’t be getting away with it any longer

ps: get rid of your crooked politician-leeches while you’re getting rid of their restrictions on you defending yourselves


8 posted on 10/17/2016 11:34:54 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero. news)
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To: simpson96

Adds new meaning to the word “progressive”.


9 posted on 10/17/2016 11:35:22 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: simpson96

Odungoville.....mmmm...mmmm...mmmmm


10 posted on 10/17/2016 11:35:42 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: simpson96

Odungoville.....mmmm...mmmm...mmmmm


11 posted on 10/17/2016 11:35:48 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: simpson96

“someone opened fire from a black vehicle”
Strange. They never print the color of the car. They never print the color of the perp when it’s black. They never print the color of the victim when the perp is black.
Wonder why they printed the color of the car?


12 posted on 10/17/2016 11:35:57 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Freedom of speech: an illusion that Americans hold fast to, although it disappeared decades ago.)
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To: simpson96
Today is October 17, 2016. As of this date, in Chicago IL, there have been:

1) 18 homicides in the past week.

2) 34 homicides in the month of October.

3) 602 homicides in calendar year 2016

All brought to us courtesy of the Democrat Party.

13 posted on 10/17/2016 11:39:53 AM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: scheming, robotic liar.)
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To: simpson96; MinuteGal; All

You reap what you sow, Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Tie the hands of the police, and you get mayhem in the hoods. Thank goodness when I was young and lived down in the big City for a period of years (not that many), it was still relatively safe to walk the streets of better neighborhoods at night (at least when it was still light out, and even at night in heavily populated nightlife and tourist areas).

Now it can be dangerous everywhere in the City of Chicago. So sad. For the most part it is a beautiful and historic City, and it’s being ruined by years and years of Dem politics and the plantation mentality of keeping the poor Black folk (and now Hispanics too) isolated and living in shoot em up districts. Meanwhile, they pay off the poverty pimps to keep the natives and the pimps themselves more quiet. Not working anymore. The natives are rebelling, and killing each other as well as escaping the hoods to go out and kill Whitey and Cops when it suits them.

Glad I’m long retired now, as I worked for years at a major University (UIC) down very near to the heart of the City. The same University where last year the staged riots by the DNC against Trump’s eventually cancelled visit that James O’Keefe speaks of in his video released today, occurred.

That campus is now a hotbed of activism, with a huge Muzzie population of students, as well as all the aggrieved minorities that now attend UIC. My timing in getting out of there (both the City and the Campus) was impeccable, thank goodness. I’d hate to be near either Chicago or UIC now.


14 posted on 10/17/2016 11:41:12 AM PDT by flaglady47 (TRUMP ROCKS!)
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To: simpson96
Whoa, a hundred more a month! Way to go, Chicago! We're number one! We're number one!

I think I've found the problem:

All black. Targets are racist.

15 posted on 10/17/2016 11:49:08 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

ROTFLMAO!!!

brilliant


16 posted on 10/17/2016 11:50:47 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: simpson96

Chicongo continues to prove that gun control laws do not work.

If they did, this could not be happening.


17 posted on 10/17/2016 1:04:58 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I can only add two words for this:

more range time.


18 posted on 10/17/2016 3:14:07 PM PDT by oldasrocks (rump)
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To: simpson96

And how many of the dead were white?

Democrats view that as simply culling the blacks that Planned Patenthood somehow missed.


19 posted on 10/17/2016 4:17:44 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: simpson96

And how many of the dead were white?

Democrats view that as simply culling the blacks that Planned Patenthood somehow missed.


20 posted on 10/17/2016 4:17:54 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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