Chicago Gun Violence

A volunteer for Chicago City Council candidate Joseph Williams was shot while videoing himself interacting with potential voters.

The gunman who allegedly killed three at Chicago’s Mercy Hospital is identified as 32-year-old Juan Lopez.

“Chicago is better and stronger for his leadership,” Obama wrote in a statement emailed to reporters, praising Rahm Emanuel’s service as his first White House Chief of Staff, as a congressman, and as the Mayor of Chicago. 

At least 40 people where shot, four fatally, before noon on Sunday in gun-controlled Chicago.

Chicago Police Department released body cam footage of an officer fatally shooting an armed man Saturday on the city’s South Side.

Alleged drug dealers shot an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) on Thursday in what was described as an ambush during a drug buy operation conducted in the Chicago area. The gunmen shot the agent twice. Agents returned fire, killing one.

Chicago police and EMS rushed to the scene of a call about an unresponsive child. When they arrived, authorities found the lifeless body of an 11-year-old boy who became the latest victim of Chicago’s rampant gun violence.

A news report indicates that 36 people were shot in the Chicago area over Memorial Day weekend. At least one outlet highlighted the shootings that left seven people dead as a “reduction in gun violence.”

February is coming to a close and there has already been over 500 shooting victims in Chicago for 2017.

On February 1 NRA-ILA executive director Chris Cox told Breitbart News that President Obama lacked the “political backbone” to act and keep Chicago from becoming a “national disgrace.”

During a recent ABC News interview President Donald Trump described Chicago as a “war zone” and warned that Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) and city officials must stop the “carnage” or get out of the way so the feds can do it.

Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL-4) made the rounds on MSBNC and CNN, dismissing President Donald Trump’s offer to help Chicago end gun violence, and blaming the NRA for the death and mayhem currently marring the Windy City.

Six persons were wounded–two critically–when gunfire erupted at a Chicago memorial for gun victims.

On January 24 Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) tweeted that Chicago’s gun violence is the result of “lax gun laws” at the federal level.

The number of shootings and murders January 1 through January 22, 2017, are higher than they were for the same time period in 2016.

Amid reports that lax prosecution is one of the chief enablers of Chicago gun crime, Attorney General Loretta Lynch says the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois has worked “around the clock” against Chicago “gun violence.”

Following the nearly 4,400 shootings that marred Chicago’s 2016, hopes were high that 2017 would be different. But as of January 4, a total of 54 people had already been shot in Chicago during the new year.

Gun-controlled Chicago ended 2016 with nearly 800 homicides throughout the year.

At first, the 2016 murder figures for gun-controlled Chicago drew attention by hitting 500, which was 32 higher than the total number of murders in 2015. Then the number of murders rose to 700, followed by a Chicago Tribune report that

Over 40 people were shot, “11 fatally,” over the Christmas weekend in gun-controlled Chicago.

The death toll from Chicago gun violence is so high that it is skewing national murder figures, making violence appear more ubiquitous than it actually is.

Over 730 homicides were committed between January 1, 2016, and December 6, 2016 in gun-controlled Chicago.

According to the Chicago Tribune, the Thanksgiving holiday weekend violence brings Chicago to nearly 4,000 shooting victims for the year. That figure includes fatal and non-fatal shootings.

A gun store owner in the Chicago neighborhood of Bucktown is giving away pepper spray as a way to fight surging crime in his community.

Gun-controlled Chicago is fast-approaching 4,000 shooting victims year-to-date for 2016.

Weekend violence similar to that which has been witnessed weekend after weekend throughout 2016 has now propelled gun controlled-Chicago past 600 homicides year-to-date.

Chicago police report ‘at least 19 people were shot’ and six persons killed from Friday night to Saturday morning in gun-controlled Chicago.

According to CBS Chicago, “a 22-year-old man was sitting in a vehicle with another male…when two other males armed with handguns walked up and announced a robbery.” Police said the 22-year-old “then pulled out a gun and shot one of the [robbery suspects],” who died at the scene.

Gun-controlled Chicago emerged from another weekend of gun violence on Sept. 12 with a total of 3,033 shooting victims year-to-date, which is roughly 50 more shooting victims than the city witnessed in all of 2015.

On Sunday, The Guardian reported the Chicago Police Department had made arrests for “under four percent” of the “nearly 2,000 non-fatal shooting incidents” from January 1 through August 28.