Final Weekend Tally

Believe it or not, these are actually lower numbers than the average:

• A toddler and man died, and at least 38 others were wounded, in Memorial Day weekend shootings in Chicago in the least deadly holiday weekend in 16 years.

  Despite the fatalities — authorities said the one involving a toddler was an accidental suicide — more people were wounded over the holiday weekend than in 2025, when 25 people were shot in the city’s least violent Memorial Day weekend since 2010.

  Still, gun violence remains lower than the pandemic-era peak. In 2021, during the same holiday period, the city saw 65 shooting victims, including 15 deaths.

And for the first time in memory, the Slum Times numbers actually agree with the HeyJackass.com numbers. Usually the media plays down the numbers and goes with the manipulated totals in an attempt to make the people in charge look better.

So is the media actually doing reporting again?