Good afternoon, Chicago.
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 this morning to once again decry the city’s entrenched violence and call for accountability for those who carried out the shootings.
More than 100 people were shot in Chicago between July 4 and the end of the holiday weekend.
Nineteen people were killed, according to Chicago police. Among them: a brazen daytime shooting in Greater Grand Crossing on Thursday left two women and an 8-year-old boy, Bryson Orr, dead.
Mayor Brandon Johnson stressed that his administration has recently sought more federal funding to address root causes of violence, but still called for punishment for those who make “a choice to kill.”
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