By Kate Shepherd
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- Shootings, homicides in 2017 are already above January 2016 levels
Chicago has already seen at least 228 people shot and at least 42 murders in 2017 as of Monday morning, according to the Tribune. It’s a 5.5 percent increase in shootings and 23.5 rise in homicides over the same point in January 2016, which was the most deadly January in almost 20 years. Fifty-four people were shot over the weekend and six of them died. The New Year’s and Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekends were also very violent. [Tribune]
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