Holiday weekend marred by gun violence
Holiday weekend marred by gun violence
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A bloody Fourth of July weekend left 82 people shot in Chicago, 14 of them fatally, since Thursday afternoon. Many of the weekend’s shootings occurred in the city’s South Side neighborhoods. NPR’s Cheryl Corley reports. WBEZ’s Patrick Smith was at Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy’s press conference and he joins us to discuss.
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