Hot Chicago Weekend off to Violent Start, With 19 Shot

Hot Chicago Weekend off to Violent Start, With 19 Shot
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The Associated Press
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CHICAGO—A hot weekend in Chicago has gotten off to a violent start, with more than a dozen people wounded and two killed in shootings throughout the city.

WBBM-TV reports that 19 people were shot overnight, including six people who were wounded in a 3:30 a.m. shootout between two groups outside the Theater on the Lake in Lincoln Park, on the city’s North Side.