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Acacia Hernandez | July 19, 2021 8:21 pm
Gun violence is on the rise in Chicago and across the country. Over the weekend, there were more than 44 separate shooting incidents in the city.
The impact of this violence is felt not only by victims, but their families and communities, too.
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The Trace, a national news organization covering gun violence in the U.S., recently published a two-part series called “Aftershocks” to uncover the trauma of surviving gun violence in Chicago.
“What we found from reporting is that of the more than 30,000 people who have been shot in the past decade, five in six of them survived,” said Lakeidra Chavis, author of the series. “It really felt like this was something missing from the reporting that we really wanted to explore in Chicago.”