Column: Every mayor for the last 30 years has failed to keep his or her promise to bring the violence under control Our patience is wearing thin
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Column: A 7-year-old shot 6 times in Chicago and mass shootings nationally Welcome to America
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A popular South Side rapper, killed in a daylight shooting along the city’s ritziest shopping corridor.
A well-known and influential gang member, shot and killed while driving in a part of Humboldt Park that’s long been a hotbed for gang conflicts and open-air drug markets.
After three consecutive years of declining violence, Chicago’s murder tally soared in 2020 as city leaders including a new Chicago police superintendent were forced to confront widespread civil unrest and the COVID-19 pandemic.
As of Dec. 31, the city recorded 774 murders in 2020, an increase of more than 50% from the 506 murders in 2019, according to a database maintained by the Chicago Sun-Times. The uptick was felt across the city, as 20 of the CPD’s 22 police districts recorded more murders in 2020 than the year before. The number of overall shooting incidents skyrocketed, too, rising from 2,120 in 2019 to 3,237 as of Dec. 27, 2020.