On Sunday, over the course of just 35 minutes, four men were killed and one man injured. At 2:03 p.m. an 18 year-old man suffered several gunshots to the chest in the Gresham neighborhood while he was sitting in his car as shots were fired from another vehicle. He took himself to the hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. Ten minutes afterward, a 37-year-old man who was in a group was shot dead in East Garfield Park when someone opened fire across the street.
Twenty-five minutes later, two men were shot in their car by gunmen in another car in the Homan Square neighborhood. One died, the other man was shot in the right arm and taken to the hospital. At 3:38 p.m. a 56-year-old man was gunned down in the South Side Woodlawn neighborhood when he got into a fight with another man.
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Homicides in 2016 have already climbed to 728, according to data analyzed by the Chicago Tribune, and more than 3,397 people have been shot in all.
Chicago ranks as the deadliest among cities with more than a million residents, and in 2016 it has recorded more murders and shooting victims than New York City and Los Angeles combined, according to CBS News.
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In September, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and his Rainbow PUSH Coalition said Chicago was in a state of “undeclared war.”
At a press conference on Thanksgiving Day, Rev. Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition urged President-elect Donald Trump to make fighting poverty a top priority in his administration.
“Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction,” Rev. Jackson said. “There’s 700 empty places at the Thanksgiving table. That’s 700 heartbreaking reasons why we must recommit and redouble our efforts to stop the violence and eradicate poverty in urban and rural America.”
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