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The shootings happened about 10:15 p.m. in the 1800 block of West 51st Street in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Ronald Gaines said.
There were no reports on conditions of the shooting victims of 11:05 p.m., and no one was in custody, police said.
goou111
At least 10 people have been shot in Chicago's Back of the Yards park..
This is just breaking so no info on injuries or deaths
It happened in the 1800 block of west 51st st.. I'm not familiar with Chicago so I wonder if this is gang violence..
The shootings happened about 10:15 p.m. in the 1800 block of West 51st Street in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Ronald Gaines said.
There were no reports on conditions of the shooting victims of 11:05 p.m., and no one was in custody, police said.
www.suntimes.com...edit on 19-9-2013 by goou111 because: (no reason given)
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11 people, including 3-year-old child, shot in Chicago's South Side, according to fire deptedit on 19-9-2013 by goou111 because: (no reason given)edit on 19-9-2013 by goou111 because: (no reason given)edit on 19-9-2013 by goou111 because: (no reason given)
i'm gonna go out on a limb and say this is a gang related thing.
and i will go out further and say that this will get, little to no national coverage.
HairlessApe
reply to post by goou111
Guns are not the problem here. Let's take a look at the real problem - parks. Obviously if those parks did not exist then no one would have been able to have gotten shot at the park.
250 days out of the first 260 days so far this year in America there have been mass shootings. (4 or more shot)
Wake up you damn hicks.
To see why this is so, it's worth looking more closely at the life conditions of those living in most violent neighborhoods in the city. As a handful of commentators have already pointed out, these areas are among the poorest. To put this in perspective, consider that Chicago has the third-highest poverty rate among major U.S. cities, and for black people in particular, Chicago is number one, with a rate of 32.2 percent. The percentage of students that qualify for free lunches at the CPS schools in predominantly black neighborhoods is in the high nineties, and in some schools 100 percent of the students qualify. As Steve Bogira puts it, "If you want children to become violent in their teens and early 20s, these are the right ingredients."
These are also areas plagued by protracted mass unemployment that have been hollowed out by deindustrialization and disinvestment. For example, among black men in the city ages 16-64, employment levels stood at a staggering 48.3 percent in 2010 [PDF] compared to 72.1 percent in 1970. Only Detroit, Cleveland and Milwaukee have higher unemployment figures. Before manufacturers closed down factories in the 1970s, swaths of unionized industrial jobs sustained scores of black workers throughout the city. But, unlike those jobs, the scarce work available to many black Chicagoans today is mostly precarious and low-wage, offering few benefits or opportunities for advancement. And even these kinds of jobs are extremely hard to come by. For example, months ago when a Costco opened just a few miles away from some of the poorest black neighborhoods on the West Side, the Reader reported that over 30,000 people applied for its 130 positions.
HairlessApe
reply to post by goou111
Guns are not the problem here. Let's take a look at the real problem - parks. Obviously if those parks did not exist then no one would have been able to have gotten shot at the park.
250 days out of the first 260 days so far this year in America there have been mass shootings. (4 or more shot)
Wake up you damn hicks.