Weekend Numbers
Only two dead, but nearly thirty wounded, in keeping with the HeyJackass.com motto of "More Lead, Less Dead:"
- Two people have been killed and at least 29 others wounded in weekend Chicago shootings on the last weekend of summer.
The weekend’s first homicide took place around 4:10 a.m. Saturday in the city’s West Garfield Park neighborhood, in the same block where three others, including a 12-year-old boy, had been shot late Friday night.
- Just before 7 p.m. Saturday, a 21-year-old man was fatally shot while driving on the city’s Northwest Side.
Police were flagged down in the 3300 block of West Chicago Avenue and discovered a 21-year-old man had been shot in the chest in the 3900 block of West Ferdinand Street. The man was transported to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition but was later pronounced dead.
Does anyone at NBC even look at a map? Northwest side? It's 011....in fact, both homicides were in 011 if we're reading this map correctly. Still, thirty-one shot isn't a bad showing for the last weekend of summer.
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
17 Comments:
Thankfully there was cool weather. Only 5 and 29 so far this weekend.
The way the economy is going we should expect a violent ramp-up in crime imo.
Some weekends, you are bug and some weekends you get to be the windshield. Cool weather is on it's way.
Too many newbies in the local news business here, they don't know shit about what neighborhoods are where and where do the NW, SW, SE sides of the city are.
I truly love it when a newly arrived newsreader (can't call them reporters) truly screw up pronunciations of streets and towns
Cragin resident here, Last 4-5 days or so there has been about 5 shootings in the neighborhood. I've commented before on a couple incidents and know a shooting isn't uncommon in the neighborhood (gunshots that seemed to be right outside my apartment, but no one hit, didn't even make me flinch Friday night/over night Saturday ,smh). Also heard the shooting when the women got shot this morning around Laramie. Wonder if any of these incidents have something to do with the shootout and death of the teen that occured last week. Don't remember things being this bad since 2010/2011 in terms of how many times I'm hearing gunshots.
The northwest side was bigger in the 1960's. It seems to have shrunk over time. As a community gets more violent, the media lumps it in on the west side. So, Chicago and Hamlin was northwest side, once upon a time.
The media is geographically challenged, along with their liberal mental disorder.
Did you ever notice all this mayhem don't happen in the nicer parts of town?
Crime reporting by the media left Chicago in the late 50's then it was given to you straight complete with pictures now the "reporters" don't even know where the north and south dividing line is.
Good morning SCC,
Seasonal weather produces seasonal stupidity - The final tally from this weekend is 5 killed (3 shot, 2 stabbed) and another 32 shot & wounded.
Illustrating Chicago Crime, Murder and Mayhem at heyjackass.com
"Too many newbies in the local news business here, they don't know shit about what neighborhoods are where and where the NW, SW, SE sides of the city are."
-- 9/22/2014 12:25:00 AM
All these neighborhood names the Tribune tags everything with seem to come from demographic/marketing/geolocation-type databases. Every odd nook and cranny has to have a name to dignify it. I was born here, and a lot of the names are news to me.
"Bad fire in Lower Tri-Central" or something. Just give the cross streets.
I never knew that Grand and Laramie was in Jefferson Park -- but that's what the new-condos-coming sign claimed...
"I truly love it when a newly arrived newsreader (can't call them reporters) truly screw up pronunciations of streets and towns."
The far South Side really throws 'em. "In the ten thousand, uh, ten hundred, uh, hundred hundred and ninth..."
Hey; nobody cares, but how about the doggies and kitties Sheriff Tom saved?
North of Harrison and West of Racine are considered the new Northwest Side.
It,s the N W side. Now deal with it.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Crime reporting by the media left Chicago in the late 50's then it was given to you straight complete with pictures now the "reporters" don't even know where the north and south dividing line is.
9/22/2014 08:16:00 AM
I'm sure they figure Division Street is the dividing line.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Crime reporting by the media left Chicago in the late 50's then it was given to you straight complete with pictures now the "reporters" don't even know where the north and south dividing line is.
9/22/2014 08:16:00 AM
I'm sure they figure Division Street is the dividing line.
9/22/2014 06:42:00 PM
Back in the olden days, Madison was the dividing line. Anything before Madison would be north, but of course everyone knows most of it is west.
The problem I have is Humboldt park. It is clearly the west side. Always has been the west side. Always will be the west side. But they tend to call it the north west side. I guess it has to do with the demographics, but if a person is shot on north ave and Pulaski, reporters should know that is indeed Humboldt park, and not the NW side.
Armitage/Grand can be tricky. Austin for instance seems to begin on Grand(& Cicero) and Austin is a west side neighborhood. But I've always looked at North Ave as the beginning of the west side, but you still have Homer, Bloomingdale, St Paul, Wabansia, and Concord all apart of Austin. Where as those same streets are considered the NW side going past Cicero into what is actually Humboldt park.
Things are indeed confusing sometimes. But fucking Ferdinand? That should never be considered the North West side LOL.
12:12qm, you were overthinking it. Just meant that 'division'='dividing line' (division line).
Figured that would be the literal logic some newsreader from the boonies might use.
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