Chicago, Illinois — A man has died and at least 7 other people were wounded in separate shootings Wednesday afternoon.
One man was killed and another wounded a couple of blocks from a homicide less than 24 hours earlier.
Details of shootings here.
Besides its gang problems, Chicago saw a major rise in violent crime starting in the late 1960s.
Murders in the city peaked first in 1974, with 970 murders when the city’s population was over three million, resulting in a murder rate of around 29 per 100,000, and again in 1992, with 943 murders when the city had fewer than three million people, resulting in a murder rate of 34 per 100,000.
Following 1992, the murder count slowly decreased to 641 in 1999. In 2002, Chicago had fewer number of murders but a significantly higher murder rate than New York or Los Angeles
[Featured image is file photo of crime scene clean-up]
