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“If you look at the priority calls, it’s shots fired calls and firework calls. You know how that goes,” she said. “They respond as they can, but they have to get there, and obviously, especially on a holiday weekend, they’re going to get a lot of calls that aren’t related to fireworks and related to actual violent crimes.”
About 1:30 a.m. Saturday, a woman victim between the age 20 to 30, was south on Lake Shore Drive in the 4200 block South, when her silver Nissan Sentra struck a tree in the center median. She suffered trauma to the body, and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
The other man who was a passenger suffered a wounded to the leg, and was taken to Stroger Hospital where his condition was stabilized. After the shooting, the victims attempted to flee the scene, but struck a building where a 65-year-old man was sitting on the stairs and struck the man. He also was taken to Stroger Hospital with a broken leg, and his condition was stabilized, police said.
Charles Iregbu holds wife Eunice’s purse while sitting with their children, Camellius, 5, left, and Divine, 2, during a naturalization ceremony at Wrigley Field on July 2, 2021, in Chicago. Eunice Iregbu was one of 172 people from 45 countries who took the Oath of Allegiance to become U.S. citizens during the ceremony. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)
Through the first six months of 2021, Chicago recorded 332 homicides, six fewer than the same time in 2020, according to CPD statistics. But the number of people shot this year, either fatally or non-fatally, was up by 13.5% to 1,880 from 1,656, statistics show.
The United States Coast Guard patrols the Chicago River on July 2, 2021. Operation Dry Water, an annual national campaign for the Fourth of July weekend, is designed to mitigate the dangers of boating under the influence. (Vashon Jordan Jr./Chicago Tribune)
But a Tribune review of the team’s lease with the city shows that it would not be difficult for the Bears to break the agreement early, Ruthhart reports, adding: “If the Bears were to break the lease five years from now, in 2026, the team would have to pay $84 million in damages to the city, the analysis found,” Ruthhart writes.
“This settlement is a bittersweet resolution for the generations of children that the Boy Scouts of America failed to protect,” said Chicago attorney Christopher Hurley, part of a firm representing some 4,000 men who filed claims. “While there is some satisfaction in seeing the Scouts acknowledge their fault, and (the) magnitude of this settlement is historic, not one of my clients would have traded money for his lost youth.”
Cameron Brink and Lexie Hull of Stanford run back to celebrate with teammates after Aari McDonald of the Arizona Wildcats misses a last-second shot in the 2021 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament championship game on April 4, 2021, in San Antonio. (Elsa / Getty Images)
“Putting on a grandiose fireworks display to celebrate both our city’s reopening and Independence Day is an excellent way to kick off the summer we’ve all been waiting for,” Lightfoot said in Friday’s statement. “Thanks to the hard work of our residents, who followed public health guidelines and did their part to slow and stop the spread of COVID-19, we are now able to bring back exciting summer traditions like these. As our newly reopened city continues adapting to a new normal, I want to urge our residents to continue getting vaccinated so we can bring back even more of our favorite outdoor events.”