by JimThackerSAFE24 | Sep 6, 2021 | Illinois News
This story is a collaboration between WBEZ’s Reset and The Trace, a nonprofit journalism outlet devoted to covering gun violence in the U.S. More than 30,000 Chicagoans have been shot in the last decade. And five of every six survive. But while much of the attention...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Sep 6, 2021 | Illinois News
Chicago continues to outpace last year’s shooting and homicide totals through the first eight months of the year, following one of the deadliest months of August in the last two decades, according to police data. Monthly crime figures released Wednesday by the Chicago...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Sep 3, 2021 | Illinois News
Travell Miller was killed shielding his daughter from gunfire Wednesday on the West Side, family says. He had moved to the neighborhood five days earlier. Travell Miller’s last act before dying in an ambush on the West Side was shielding his 7-year-old daughter from...