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He suffered a gunshot wound to the neck and was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said. The Cook County medical examiner’s office has not yet released details on the death.
Thursday evening a person was killed in a shooting in West Lawn on the Southwest Side, police said.
About 7 p.m., a male was on the sidewalk in the 6000 block of South Kilbourn Avenue when he was shot in the head and chest, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police.
He was identified as Jorge Chavez, 25, by the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
30 shot, 5 killed, in Chicago over holiday weekend
By Sun-Times Media Wire
shootings so far this holiday weekend.
In the weekend’s latest fatal attack, a man was killed in a shooting Sunday in Grand Crossing on the South Side.
The 29-year-old was found inside a 2011 Chevy Malibu about 7:10 p.m. in the 6800 block of South Stony Avenue with multiple gunshot wounds on the chest, Chicago police said. He was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office hasn’t released details on the death.
On Saturday, a 29-year-old man was gunned down while driving in Lawndale on the West Side.
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John Marshall Metropolitan High School is a West Side institution.
One of the city’s oldest public high schools, once heavily Jewish and for decades home to a nearly all-Black student body, it boasts fiercely proud alumni and a reputation for powerhouse athletics.
It’s named for the fourth chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, widely regarded as the most influential leader of the nation’s highest court, honored with his face on postage stamps and his name on law schools in Chicago and elsewhere.
John Marshall Metropolitan High School is a West Side institution.
One of the city’s oldest public high schools once heavily Jewish and for decades home to a nearly all-Black student body it boasts fiercely proud alumni and a reputation for powerhouse athletics.
It’s named for the fourth chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, widely regarded as the most influential leader of the nation’s highest court, honored with his face on postage stamps and his name on law schools in Chicago and elsewhere.
Marshall also was a slaveholder his entire adult life, with at least 200 Black slaves on his Virginia plantations.