Mayor Lori Lightfoot had earlier warned any potential partygoers or hosts that they would face arrest. The West Side has some of the city's most crime-ridden neighborhoods and hundreds of people filled the streets there overnight Saturday into Sunday as revelers partied in defiance of stay-at-home orders. Reports said the shooting came hours after officers enforcing the statewide stay-at-home order broke up another party in the same block. Twenty-one of the weekend's victims were shot in a seven-hour period from Saturday night to Sunday, including five teenagers wounded in a drive-by shooting at a party on the city's West Side.
Los Angeles, the second biggest city in the US, saw just 18 murders over a four-week period from late March. New York by contrast, a city with a population almost three times that of Chicago, saw 31 homicides in April. While significant falls in crime have been one of the few positive side effects of lockdowns in much of the United States and elsewhere, they have barely made a dent in the homicide rate in Chicago, a city that has long recorded the most murders in the country.Ĭhicago police say 56 murders were committed in April despite statewide stay-at-home orders - only a fraction lower than the 61 for the same month in 2019 - while last weekend, the first of the new month, four people were killed and 46 others shot and wounded.
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The streets of Chicago may be largely empty as residents hunker down from coronavirus but some of the city's most deprived neighborhoods are still echoing to the sound of deadly gunfire and raucous partying.
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