Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Tuesday, April 18, 2017.
Shootings were scattered around the city during a violent Easter weekend
Gun violence was scattered across the city from Lakeview to the south and west sides over Easter weekend. Only two of the 45 shootings were fatal, but it was the most violent weekend in 2017 since New Year’s, according to the Tribune. A 14-year-old boy shot in the arm in Pilsen was the youngest victim. Shootings and homicides are down from this time last year: at least 915 people have been shot so far in 2017, compared to 955 at this time in 2016, and at least 166 people have been murdered in 2017, as compared to 171 in 2016. [Tribune]
