Chicago shootings

It appears that everyone didn’t celebrate the fun, festivities and magic of the Christmas season, as it is being reported that violence reached astounding numbers in Chicago during the holiday weekend. An estimated 61 people were shot and almost a dozen were killed in shootings that took place throughout the city during the long Christmas […]

A 16-year-old boy who vowed that athletics would be his path out of Chicago and away from its rampant violence was shot and killed Sunday evening in front of his home. Andre Taylor, a multi-sport athlete at Percy Julian High School, was found suffering from a gunshot wound to the forehead on his front lawn of his home on the city's embattled South Side, DNAInfo Chicago reports.