Mass shooting in Chicago
It’s getting worse 
CHICAGO (AP) —
Five people standing outside on Chicago’s West Side were shot in a violent end to a day that began with a mass shooting on the city’s South Side that left four people dead and four more injured, police said.
Four men and one woman were shot about 9:20 p.m. Tuesday near Garfield Park, possibly “by multiple offenders,” police said. They were rushed to area hospitals, where a 38-year-old man was listed in critical condition while the others were listed in good condition.
The shooting came about 16 hours after three women and a man were fatally shot and four other people suffered gunshot wounds inside a house on the South Side.
Police have not made any arrests in either shooting, nor have they made arrests in the death of a 16-year-old boy who was shot Tuesday night in the city’s Gage Park neighborhood. Police said a gunman opened fire on him and a 20-year-old man who was critically injured.
CHICAGO (AP) —
Five people standing outside on Chicago’s West Side were shot in a violent end to a day that began with a mass shooting on the city’s South Side that left four people dead and four more injured, police said.
Four men and one woman were shot about 9:20 p.m. Tuesday near Garfield Park, possibly “by multiple offenders,” police said. They were rushed to area hospitals, where a 38-year-old man was listed in critical condition while the others were listed in good condition.
The shooting came about 16 hours after three women and a man were fatally shot and four other people suffered gunshot wounds inside a house on the South Side.
Police have not made any arrests in either shooting, nor have they made arrests in the death of a 16-year-old boy who was shot Tuesday night in the city’s Gage Park neighborhood. Police said a gunman opened fire on him and a 20-year-old man who was critically injured.
Chicago residents that know their neighborhood do not go out after dark. Most people that are being shot are living that lifestyle or are just totally unaware of their surroundings. That is a very sad state of affairs when you are limited to certain times you can venture out of your own home. The talk on this subject has gone on far, FAR too long. What actions are going to happen? Gun control scares the hell out of some people,...I am anti-guns, never owned one, never want too either. I have never felt the need to shoot someone and never felt threatened that I would need a gun for safety reasons. But to end these senseless killings and shootings, maybe we need to have gun control of some sort. Why would anyone need high powered and rapid fire guns? Take control, what is it going to take? Just senseless!!!
People don't care how much you know.
They want to know how much you care.
They want to know how much you care.
If you are referring to the gif I posted, you do know that is Lightfoot, right?
CCubs is totes not a Liberal.CCubs wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 12:49 pm The talk on this subject has gone on far, FAR too long. What actions are going to happen? Gun control scares the hell out of some people,...I am anti-guns, never owned one, never want too either. I have never felt the need to shoot someone and never felt threatened that I would need a gun for safety reasons. But to end these senseless killings and shootings, maybe we need to have gun control of some sort. Why would anyone need high powered and rapid fire guns? Take control, what is it going to take? Just senseless!!!
Lightfoot is on the case. It's not gang members killing each other and poor lifestyle choices that are shortening black life expectancy. It's racist white folks that are to blame.
https://abc7chicago.com/mayor-lori-ligh ... /10801185/
https://abc7chicago.com/mayor-lori-ligh ... /10801185/
Mayor Lori Lightfoot formally declared racism to be a public health crisis in Chicago Thursday.
Mayor Lightfoot made the announcement at the MLK Exhibit Center in North Lawndale. She's calling on all Chicagoans to work together to address racial inequities that have resulted from systemic racism.
"We can no longer allow racism our residents to rob the residents of the opportunity to live and lead full, healthy and happy lives and we are working closely with the Chicago Department of Public Health and community organizations to address these inequities once and for all," Mayor Lightfoot said.
The mayor and Chicago public Health Commissioner Allison Arwady saying the city needs to build on its work to improve anti-racist policies that address the root causes of inequity.
Lightfoot called for improving anti-racism policies by:
-Building capacity for anti-racist leadership,
-Reckoning with the impacts of racism,
-Advancing strategies to operationalize racial equity,
-Empowering transformative community relationships.
CDPH announced that it will be using $9.6 million in COVID-19 relief funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to create six Healthy Chicago Equity Zones covering the while city.
The city is partnering with six community organizations as part of the Healthy Equity Zones-
-Far South: Phalanx Family Services
-Near South: Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation
-North/Central: Swedish Covenant Hospital
-Northwest: Northwest Side Housing Center
-Southwest: Southwest Organizing Project
-West: Rush University Medical Center (on behalf of West Side United)
Those organizations are charged with creating community-based coalitions to develop strategies to improve wellness.
The announcement comes after CDPH released a study earlier this week showing Black Chicagoans have a shorter life expectancy.
Black lives are shorter in the city. On average in 2017 Blacks in the city lived 71.4 years, while non-Blacks lived 80.6 years.
The report listed the factors of the gap as chronic diseases, homicides, infant mortality, HIV, flu and other infections and opioid overdoses.
From the article @Tazewell posted:
“Black lives are shorter in the city. On average in 2017 Blacks in the city lived 71.4 years, while non-Blacks lived 80.6 years.
The report listed the factors of the gap as chronic diseases, homicides, infant mortality, HIV, flu and other infections and opioid overdoses.”
How are these “Healthy Chicago Equity Zones” going to stop homicides from being a major factor in the shorter life expectancy of Blacks?
“Black lives are shorter in the city. On average in 2017 Blacks in the city lived 71.4 years, while non-Blacks lived 80.6 years.
The report listed the factors of the gap as chronic diseases, homicides, infant mortality, HIV, flu and other infections and opioid overdoses.”
How are these “Healthy Chicago Equity Zones” going to stop homicides from being a major factor in the shorter life expectancy of Blacks?