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From July 1 to July 7, 340 people were killed and 756 were wounded for a total of 1,096 shooting victims across the U.S., according to the Gun Violence Archive.
After another long holiday weekend that saw scores of people killed or wounded by gunfire — many of them children — city leaders gathered at Chicago Police headquarters Monday morning to once again decry the city’s entrenched violence and call for accountability for those who carried out the shootings.
Chicago’s Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson was blasted by conservatives and the Nixon Foundation for his claim. CREDIT: City of Chicago
A string of 74 shootings, many of them fatal, were reported in Chicago over the holiday weekend. At least 19 were killed and dozens more wounded. WMAQ's Charlie Wojciechowski reports.
More than 100 people were shot in Chicago, 19 of them fatally, over the long Independence Day weekend, when there is often a spike in violence.
Shootings in Chicago over the July Fourth weekend left 19 people dead, including two women who died shielding children from gunfire, and more than 100 injured.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson announced a bold new initiative on Tuesday aimed at breaking the cycle of violence, specifically focusing on the city’s youth.
Chicago has ended up in a perpetual state of violence, and Mayor Brandon Johnson is blaming a president who left office 50 years ago.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson faced questions over his response to the deadly weekend violence. Last Friday, Mayor Johnson landed back in the city after a trip to New Orleans. From the airport, he traveled straight to Greater Grand Crossing,
More than 100 people were shot in Chicago this past July 4th weekend, and 19 were killed. Charlie De Mar talked with the family of a West Side man who lost his life.
Chicago's high death toll over the long July Fourth weekend should be a reminder that Mayor Brandon Johnson is failing to protect Chicagoans.
Johnson, who called on the feds to help, said those who did the shootings made "a choice to kill women, a choice to kill children, a choice to kill the elderly. And I’m here to say emphatically that we have had enough.
Chicago police have confirmed 109 people were shot, 19 fatally, across the city over the Fourth of July weekend.
The number of shootings – which totaled 109 victims between Thursday and Sunday – surpassed last year's holiday weekend total.
Chicago’s lefty Mayor Brandon Johnson blamed former President Richard Nixon, who resigned from the presidency in 1974 and died in 1994, for the Windy City’s crippling crime problem — after a bloody holiday weekend in which 19 people were killed and more than 100 were injured in shootings.
Mayor Brandon Johnson was tight-lipped Monday on the fate of the NASCAR Chicago Street Race after a lackluster audience showing and criticism from some over the diversion of hundreds of police officers to Grant Park during the historically violent holiday weekend.
The shootings happened between 6 p.m. on July 3 and 6 a.m. on July 7, according to the Chicago Police Major Incident Notifications system. Two more people were shot on July 7. Among those killed during the weekend shootings was an 8-year-old boy.
More than a hundred people in Chicago were shot, 19 fatally, during a holiday weekend marred by an eye-popping eruption of violence — as the city’s mayor called to punish those who make a “choice to kill” and said there “will be consequences” for the gunmen.
Multiple shooters who emerged from two cars are believed to have fired several shots into a home, killing three people and injuring two others, police say. A shooting in Chicago on the Fourth of July left two women and an 8-year-old boy dead,
With acts of gun violence making the holiday weekend's headlines across the country, some activist groups released a joint statement on Monday, July 8, calling
Top cop, mayor offer candid response to Fourth of July weekend violence that left more than 100 shot
After a Fourth of July holiday weekend that saw more than 100 people shot in Chicago, the city's top cop and mayor offered a candid response, sharing new insights into the startling numbers being reported.
Gun violence is down across America this year but it peaks every summer and Chicago’s Fourth of July weekend bore the data out, with 109 people shot, including 19 fatally, police said in a Monday news conference.
Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling speaks during the 2023 Carter H. Harrison and Lambert Tree Award Ceremony. Johnson and Snelling held a press conference July 8, 2024 discussing Fourth of July violence.
In 2023, 11 people were killed and 62 wounded over the Fourth of July weekend in Chicago, which stretched over four days.
Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling are calling on communities to help police after an especially violent July 4th holiday weekend saw at least 17 people killed and 89 others wounded in shootings across the city.
Calls for gun reform were persistent following Chicago's deadly Fourth of July weekend that resulted in over 100 shootings.
Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson evoked an unexpected name Monday while discussing the reason behind a spate of gun violence
Mayor Johnson is asking for more help from the federal government to combat gun violence in the city. Yahoo Sports
Mayor Johnson hardened his stand on gun violence after more than 100 people were shot over the holiday weekend Mayor Brandon Johnson took an unfamiliar, tough-on-crime approach this morning and vowed to hold gunmen accountable after 19 people were killed and 86 others injured in shootings over the extended Fourth of July weekend,
The number of shootings – which totaled 109 victims between Thursday and Sunday – surpassed last year’s holiday weekend total, Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling and Mayor Brandon Johnson said in a Monday press conference.
More than 100 people were shot and 19 were killed in Chicago over the four-day Fourth of July weekend, according to police.