Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Wednesday, August 2, 2017.
Violent July puts the city on pace to exceed 750 murders in 2017
Seventy-five people were killed in July, putting Chicago on pace to exceed the more than 750 people killed last year. At the end of July 2016, 395 people had been killed; at the end of July 2017, at least 410 people had been killed. [DNAinfo Chicago]
