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  • 13 shot as holiday weekend begins: 'It's like an everyday normal thing' ( Gun Free Chicago )

    07/05/2014 9:55:45 PM PDT · by george76 · 32 replies
    Chicago Tribune ^ | July 4, 2014 | Peter Nickeas, Michelle Manchir and Liam Ford
    At least 13 people have been shot in Chicago at the start of the long holiday weekend, including a woman killed as she sat on a porch near Garfield Park and a man slain in front of a hair salon on the South Side, police said. ... The mother of the boy, Andrea Byes, said she is planning to move out of the two-flat where she lives with her children because of the violence, drug sales and loitering on the block. "I'm not surprised something like this happened," said Byes, 40. "It was a matter of time. They're all over...
  • 5 shot in drive-by at memorial barbecue [Chi-town]

    04/13/2011 8:28:30 PM PDT · by smokingfrog · 29 replies
    abclocal.go.com ^ | 13 April 2011 | Jessica D' Onofrio
    April 13, 2011 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- A 10-year-old boy was among those hit in a drive-by shooting on Chicago's Southeast Side. Police say the shooting happened at approximately 9 p.m. Tuesday during a barbecue party honoring someone who was killed last year. Remnants of the party were scattered Wednesday throughout the vacant lot near 79th Street and Escanaba in the city's South Chicago neighborhood. The night before, a group of people gathered to remember a friend who was shot and killed in the same place in 2010. But the memorial ended abruptly when someone opened fire on the crowd from...