[New post] Another Shoot-’em-Up Memorial Day Weekend in Chicago – WSJ
Barrington Hills Observer posted: " It was Memorial Day weekend as usual in Chicago, as its citizens celebrated by shooting at least 41 people, and killing 11. The country shrugged because, well, this is Chicago, and if the new mayor doesn't care, why should anyone else? The shootings oc" The Barrington Hills Observer
The city's new mayor attributes shootings to the 'trauma' of disinvestment. | PHOTO: CHARLES REX ARBOGAST/ASSOCIATED PRESS
It was Memorial Day weekend as usual in Chicago, as its citizens celebrated by shooting at least 41 people, and killing 11. The country shrugged because, well, this is Chicago, and if the new mayor doesn't care, why should anyone else?
The shootings occurred all over the city, including blocks from Mayor Brandon Johnson's home in the Austin neighborhood. No fewer than five people were shot in the affluent Lake View neighborhood on the North Side. The local ABC affiliate ran an account of the shootings that reads like an old-fashioned crime blotter:
"About 2:15 a.m. in Lake View, William Hair, 35, was found on a sidewalk with a gunshot wound to the chest in the 500 block of West Surf Street. He died at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center."
"Later in the day, a man was shot to death in the 1100-block of North Ridgeway Avenue in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side. The shooting happened about 11:15 a.m., according to police."
"Less than an hour later, a woman was killed and three men wounded in a drive-by shooting in Auburn Gresham."
And so on.
Read more of the Wall Street Journal opinion piece here.
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