Murder Free Since....Nevermind

Over half the weekend gone before someone got killed:

• Authorities are investigating shootings that left a 15-year-old boy dead and four other people including a 16-year-old girl wounded on Sunday, police said.
  
  The boy, 15, was killed and a 16-year-old girl was grazed by a bullet in the 1600 block of South Saint Louis Avenue in city's Lawndale neighborhood about 6:35 p.m., police said.
  
  Police said the teens were in a gangway when a gray sedan drove by and someone inside opened fire.
  
  Both were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where the boy, who was shot in the back, was pronounced dead. The female suffered a graze wound to her back.

The counts are quite a bit lower than past years:

• At least 18 people have been wounded in Chicago shootings throughout the Memorial Day weekend, with eight victims shot in a five-hour spate of violence early Sunday.
  
  But there have been no fatal shootings since Friday evening, making this year’s holiday weekend much less violent than last year’s so far.
  
  Last year, 43 people were shot, four of them fatally, by Sunday afternoon of the long holiday weekend, which is widely viewed as the unofficial start of summer...

McCompost was overheard to utter, "It isn't the weather!"

• For some 20,000 cyclists expecting to bike for a cause Sunday on Lake Shore Drive, slippery conditions were a possibility as one of Chicago's rainiest springs neared a close.
  
  [...]But within hours of the end of the event, it was raining — again — in the Chicago area, a pattern that has made this spring one of the most rainy in nearly 150 years, according to meteorologists at the National Weather Service.
  
  From March 1to May 27, Chicago has seen 13.72 inches of precipitation, which is 4.64 inches higher than normal, or what is called "climatological normal," said Ricky Castro, a meteorologist at the Romeoville-based weather service.

Sure it isn't.