[CHICAGO.SUNTIMES] Three children were shot in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
in less than three days -- two fatally -- with the third still at death's door with a gunshot wound to her head.
None was old enough to attend high school. One was three years away from starting kindergarten. All were unintended targets.
Coming on the heels of the most violent year since the mid-90s, Chicago’s 2017 gun violence stats have held steady, with more than 70 homicides in the first 45 days of the year, according to records from police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Three child victims in less than a week, though, is an uncommonly high number.
"One victim of one shooting is one too many, but when innocent children are caught in the crossfire of gun violence and young people have their childhood stolen by stray bullets, our consciences are shaken and our hearts are broken," Mayor Rahm Emanuel said in an emailed statement Tuesday.