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April 17, 2024 at 4:30 PM. CHICAGO - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), along with state and city leaders, joined forces Wednesday to establish the Crime Gun ...
Chicago's 2016 murder and shooting surge has attracted national media attention from CNN, The New York Times, USA Today, Time magazine and PBS. Filmmaker Spike Lee's 2015 release, Chi-Raq, highlights Chicago's gun violence using a narrative inspired by the Greek comedy Lysistrata.
April 18, 2024 at 6:30 AM. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is ramping up its efforts to reduce violent crime in the U.S., launching a specialized gun intelligence center in Chicago and ...
Magnificent Mile shooting. On May 19, 2022, a mass shooting occurred in Chicago, Illinois, United States, in the city's Magnificent Mile shopping district, near Michigan Avenue. [4] Two people were killed, and eight others were injured. [5] The accused perpetrator, Jaylun Sanders, was taken into custody by Chicago police .
On July 4, 2022, a mass shooting occurred during an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois, United States. The shooting occurred at 10:14 a.m. CDT ( UTC−05:00 ), roughly 15 minutes after the parade had started. Seven people were killed, and 48 others were wounded by bullets or shrapnel.
Over one recent weekend in Chicago, two children under the age of 10 became victims of the city's rampant gun violence. Mateo Zastro, 3, was shot and killed while in the car with his mother and ...
Gun deaths hit an all-time high in 2020. More than 45,000 Americans died by firearms in 2020, making firearm injury the 13th leading cause of death in the U.S. . In 2020, firearms were involved in ...
As the nation deals with a rise in homicides involving firearms, the city of Chicago continues to deal with a historic rise in violence. Shootings in Chicago are up 68% compared to 2019, and ...