Father's Day Weekend

A non-demonizable, stress mishandling rundown of all the mostly peaceful, yet sometimes violent and "unacceptable" events in and around Chicago this past Father's Day weekend.

Way back in 2020, Father’s Day weekend ended up being the absolute shitshows of shitshows making it the highest tally we’ve ever recorded for a standard weekend. It even bested any July 4th run and even some Februarys. While this weekend wasn’t as bad, it was the most nonsensical standard weekend of the year thus far with three mass shootings - one incident with four-shot and two others with five-shot. In any event, Happy Father’s Day to all those dads out there, even if you never scored four touchdowns in a single game.

Final Demonized Tally: 11 killed, 53 wounded
2022 weekend tally: 5 killed, 47 wounded
2021 weekend tally: 12 killed, 45 wounded
2020 weekend tally: 17 killed, 96 wounded
2019 weekend tally: 6 killed, 17 wounded
2018 weekend tally: 4 killed, 37 wounded
2017 weekend tally: 7 killed, 40 wounded
2016 weekend tally: 8 killed, 50 wounded
2015 weekend tally: 5 killed, 24 wounded
2014 weekend tally: 2 killed, 42 wounded
Average tally: 7 killed, 44 wounded

Friday 6/16
3:25p 5000 W Altgeld, Belmont Cragin, M/38 (homicide)
6:35p 3900 W Gladys, Garfield Park, M/26 (homicide)
7:40p 5500 W Corcoran, Austin, M/27
8:55p 2200 N Laramie, Belmont Cragin, M/24
9:15p 3600 S Wells, Armour Square, M/48
9:20p 1100 S Richmond, North Lawndale, M/23
Saturday 6/17
12:10a 1600 W 80th, Auburn Gresham, M/58 (homicide)
12:25a 5000 W Adams, Austin, M/19
12:25a 5000 W Adams, Austin, M/30
12:25a 5000 W Adams, Austin, F/41
12:55a 5900 W 63rd, Clearing, M/39
2:00a 8000 S Cottage Grove, Chatham, M/36 (homicide)
2:15a 1300 S Pulaski, North Lawndale, M/30
3:00a 5200 S Cicero, Garfield Ridge, M/33
4:40a 1900 N Stockton, Lincoln Park, F/17
4:40a 1900 N Stockton, Lincoln Park, M/23
4:40a 1900 N Stockton, Lincoln Park, M/27
4:40a 1900 N Stockton, Lincoln Park, M/31
4:40a 1900 N Stockton, Lincoln Park, M/44
2:45p 3600 W Grenshaw, North Lawndale, M/21
3:50p 100 W Cermak, Armour Square, M/21
4:45p 100 S Homan, Garfield Park, M/14
4:45p 100 S Homan, Garfield Park, M/15 (homicide)
4:55p 7600 S May, Auburn Gresham, M/32
5:20p 5700 S Elizabeth, Englewood, M/26
6:35p 300 W Erie, Near North Side, M/27
7:45p 3000 W 39th, Brighton Park, F/24
9:00p 2100 W Maypole, Near West Side, M/33
10:30p 300 S Kilbourn, Garfield Park, F/44
11:50p 5200 W Quincy, Austin, M/30
Sunday 6/18
12:55a 3400 W 12th, North Lawndale, M/33
1:20a 100 N Karlov, Garfield Park, M/18
1:25a Walk-in @ Stitch-N-Go, M/28
1:35a 6600 S Evans, Woodlawn, M/48 (homicide)
1:40a I290 @ Levitt, Near West Side, M/?
2:05a 3000 W Lexington, Garfield Park, M/50
2:55a 5400 W Crystal, Austin, M/31 (homicide)
2:55a 5400 W Crystal, Austin, M/27
2:55a 5400 W Crystal, Austin, M/40
2:55a 5400 W Crystal, Austin, M/?
4:50a 2600 W 21st, Little Village, M/27
12:45p 2100 W Adams, Near West Side, M/26
7:00p 1900 E 71st, South Shore, M/?
7:55p 9900 S Princeton, Roseland, M/32 (homicide)
7:55p 9900 S Princeton, Roseland, M/38 (homicide)
7:55p 9900 S Princeton, Roseland, M/19
7:55p 9900 S Princeton, Roseland, M/24
7:55p 9900 S Princeton, Roseland, M/27
8:40p 12800 S Normal, West Pullman, M/15
8:40p 12800 S Normal, West Pullman, M/15
9:25p 8800 S Kerfoot, Auburn Gresham, M/39 (homicide)
9:30p Walk-in @ Stitch-N-Go, M/17
9:55p 3500 W Lake, Garfield Park, M/42
11:10p 11600 S Halsted, West Pullman, M/32 (homicide)
11:45p 100 E 43rd, Grand Boulevard, M/25
Don’t Demonize Juneteenth
1:00a 10300 S Cottage Grove, Roseland, M/29
1:15a 6300 S Emerald, Englewood, M/21
2:50a 4200 W Roosevelt, North Lawndale, F/30
2:50a 4200 W Roosevelt, North Lawndale, F/30
3:25a 800 N Karlov, Humboldt Park, M/? (selfie)
3:30a 3600 W Lake, Garfield Park, M/47
3:35a 200 S Campbell, Near West Side, M/36
3:35a 200 S Campbell, Near West Side, M/33
5:05a 1700 N Damen, West Town, M/52

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Clown City Update 🤡

The River North neighborhood is more known as a tourist destination with its numerous restaurants, bars, and clubs, but can also be a place for a spirited game of tag… with firearms.

SIR! Extended magazines are illegal here, sir!

A newly acquired video of Saturday’s shooting in River North shows four people jumping out of a parked car in an apparent ambush of the victim as he walked in the 300 block of West Erie. “Upwards of 50” rounds were fired in the attack, which left the victim critically wounded, a Chicago police officer at the scene said.

In the footage, the victim is seen walking on the sidewalk when a group of gunmen appears to emerge from a car parked across the street. The men charge at the victim, who falls to the ground.

He gets back up and runs, followed closely by a gunman who chases him down the block, apparently shooting along the way. At one point, a bullet hits a brick wall on the left side of the video, sending a puff of debris into the air.

After successfully shooting the victim near a stop sign, the gunman bolts back down the block, and the car the men emerged from pulls out to pick him up. (full story)

The full video can be viewed: https://videopress.com/v/yFrW6mU6

The good news is the CPD was able to make an arrest, but the bad news is the arrestee will be out in time for next weekend’s game of tag.

Speaking of tourist areas, Lincoln Park decided to get in on the action with a mass shooting outside of the zoo:

A mass shooting left five people injured, four critically, near Lincoln Park Zoo overnight, according to initial information from the scene.

The shooting occurred in the 1900 block of North Stockton occurred around 4:40 a.m.

“A group of people were gathered outside … when a verbal altercation ensued,” Chicago police said in a media statement. “Unknown offender(s) then opened fired [sic], striking five victims. No one is in custody and Area Three Detectives are currently investigating the circumstances surrounding this incident.” (full story)

At least Google Maps has updated their popular times graphic to give out-of-towners a better idea of when NOT to go to the zoo.

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STFU About Willowbrook

It was only a week or so ago, we were told “If you don’t live in Chicago, you don’t have a right to talk about the city of Chicago”, but that doesn’t stop one from racking up some virtue signaling points with some timely, good ol’ fashioned “thoughts and prayers”.

Taking a page out of Lori’s playbook to comment on a “celebration” outside of Chicago. Next virtue level attained.

However, in perusing the mayor’s timeline we noticed a curious omission (at the time of this post), there isn’t a single mention of the 64 people shot this past weekend nor any mention of the three mass shootings within the city limits. No “thoughts and prayers” for you, but we may be able to scrounge up some “root causes” or “silly decisions”.

One more thought, when the next politically-exploitable mass shooting occurs (one where the shooter fits a highly desired profile and uses a very demonizable weapon), we’ll lay money on a Lori-like tweet that starts with something like “Screw your thoughts and prayers…”.

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Forgot About Father’s Day?

Even though Father’s Day has passed, there’s still time to help Dad “mishandled the stress” with a custom and very dapper t-shirt.

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