Friday and Saturday Casualties

It was chilly on Friday you know:

• A woman was killed and four men wounded in five separate shootings between 11:30 p.m. Friday and 4 a.m. Saturday.

  A 28-year-old woman standing on a second-floor balcony on the 4000 block of South Albany Avenue in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side was shot in the lower back about 11:55 p.m. by someone standing on the street, police said. She was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said.

Saturday maintained the pace...oh wait, that was just the afternoon:

• A man was shot to death in the Lawndale neighborhood this afternoon and at least five others were wounded in unrelated attacks in other city neighborhoods.

  Police responded to a call of a person shot about 1:35 p.m. and found a 23-year-old man shot in the 700 block of South Francisco Avenue this afternoon, said Chicago Police News Affairs [...].

You know it's bad when the Drudge Report headline reads "Only 1 Dead, 5 Wounded in Chicago."

No word on tonight's bloodletting. Keep an eye on the local papers for something though - we've noticed they seem to be spreading out the reports instead of lumping them together (Saturday afternoon as opposed to Friday PM into Saturday night.).