Gunfire Lights Up Englewood

Well, that could be the headline any night of the week. But this was in broad daylight:

• As diners at a busy South Side restaurant looked on in horror and dove for cover Tuesday morning, a gunman in an SUV peppered the street with bullets, forcing a fleeing car to speed through a red light and slam into a packed CTA bus.

  Eleven people were hospitalized — two with serious injuries — after the No. 75 bus was rammed into a light pole at the intersection of 75th and Vincennes in Gresham at 9:35 a.m., authorities said.

• “The guys in the black car were arguing real loud in the street with two men in a red truck,” he said. “Then two guys got out of the truck with an Uzi. It was probably drug related, but I wasn’t trying to listen to what they were saying, if you know what I mean,” he added.

  The gunman escaped in the red SUV, he said. Police had made no arrests as of Tuesday evening, police said.

And wonder of wonders, the reverends were there to see their flock running amok. You know you can't swing a dead cat around by the tail without hitting a reverend in Englewood...or a dope fiend...or dope dealer... or, well, you get the idea:

• Rev. Chester McLaurin, of Emmanuel Bible Church, was one of 10 pastors enjoying a cup of coffee at Ryan Anthony’s when the shooting began right in front of him.

  “The Lord just saved us,” he said.

We wonder what Sunday's sermon is going to be about. Blaming society probably.