Thanksgiving weekend
Thanksgiving weekend shootings in Chicago saw a drop from the same holiday weekend in 2020. Last year, 11 people were killed and another 31 were…
November 29, 2021
This past weekend was half the length of the previous, extended Thanksgiving weekend, but that didn’t make much of a difference in how many people…
December 07, 2020
There’s an ebb and flow to the Chicago weekend shooting numbers in 2020. The number of shooting victims never really goes that low, they’re just…
November 30, 2020
Maybe it’s because this past weekend wasn’t an extended one, or maybe it was the cold weather, but whatever the case may be, the numbers for this…
December 09, 2019
Writer's Note: If you include Thanksgiving Day as part of the extended four-day weekend, which I do, then you’ll find that the Chicago publications…
December 02, 2019
“I did it to kill people.”
Those were the words of an 11-year-old girl from Louisville who ruined another family’s Thanksgiving weekend by driving a…
November 28, 2017
It looks like not a lot has changed on the South and West Sides of Chicago.
Granted, shootings are down in the Windy City from 2016’s record highs,…
November 27, 2017
So much for that temporary downward trend in Chicago weekend shootings. Nothing brings out the best in people like a little holiday spirit.
The…
November 28, 2016