Mostly Peaceful Weekend #8

A round-up and rundown of all the mostly peaceful, yet sometimes violent events in and around Chicago this past weekend from 12pm Friday, Feb 24th – 6am Monday, Feb 27th.

Stay home, don’t vote. Vote early, vote often. Stay home, vote often. Whichever method works best, our poll for Mayor of Chicago concluded Sunday and shows a runoff between Vallas and Undecided/Other/Bozo.

Final Peaceful Tally: 3 killed, 13 wounded
2022 weekend tally: 4 killed, 12 wounded
2021 weekend tally: 8 killed, 21 wounded
2020 weekend tally: 6 killed, 17 wounded
2019 weekend tally: 3 killed, 11 wounded
2018 weekend tally: 5 killed, 23 wounded
2017 weekend tally: 4 killed, 10 wounded
2016 weekend tally: 5 killed, 29 wounded
2015 weekend tally: 3 killed, 9 wounded
2014 weekend tally: 3 killed, 7 wounded
Average tally: 5 killed, 15 wounded

Friday 2/24
6:50p 100 E 95th, Roseland, M/17
Saturday 2/25
2:30a 7000 S Rhodes, Grand Crossing, F/46 (homicide)
2:50a 4400 N Kedzie, Albany Park, M/24
4:05a 1900 N Lawndale, Logan Square, M/29
4:05a 1900 N Lawndale, Logan Square, M/31
3:40p 1500 W Jarvis, Rogers Park, M/13
10:25p 3400 W 79th, Ashburn, M/16 (homicide)
10:40p 1700 W 18th, Lower West Side, M/45
Sunday 2/26
12:40a 400 W Marquette, Englewood, M/22
1:30a 10700 S Champlain, Pullman, M/30
2:15a 2700 W 18th, North Lawndale, M/22 (homicide)
10:20a 5800 S May, Englewood, M/31
7:00p Dan Ryan @ 79th, Grand Crossing, M/?
9:55p 3600 W Armitage, Logan Square, M/33
No Accountability Monday
12:55a 100 E Cermak, Near South Side, F/27
12:55a 100 E Cermak, Near South Side, M/31

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Clown City Update 🤡

Guessing “Stay Home, Don’t Vote” didn’t play as well as it sounded at the time, so instead, the tried and true will likely work better.

Heather Cherone @HeatherCherone

Earlier this week, Lori Lightfoot told people if they weren't going to cast their ballot for her, not to vote-- later apologizing for misspeaking. Now, @LoriLightfoot tweets a graphic that apparently encourages people to vote more than once. CONTEXT: There are six (6) days to go.

We’d like to suggest “Stay Home, Vote Often” as an acceptable compromise.

And by the way, if Lori doesn’t make it into the top two tomorrow, it’s because you all are ist-a-phobes.

Chicago Contrarian @ChicagoContrar1

Looks as if @chicagosmayor is already searching for excuses for a likely electoral loss. Unsurprisingly, the mayor is blaming race and gender. Ms. Lightfoot was black, a woman, and gay before 2019. Voters didn't become bigoted. Lightfoot failed.

foxnews.comLori Lightfoot slammed for suggesting voters oppose her because she’s a Black woman in power: Her ‘time is up’Chicago radio host Ray Stevens criticized Mayor Lori Lightfoot for the city’s high crime rate after she blamed slipping support on her identity as a Black woman.

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Polling Results

Bozo came in second.

As mentioned above, our highly scientific poll closed on Sunday afternoon and it would appear as if our readership is 60/40 split between Paul Vallas and Undecided/Other/Bozo the Clown.

Chicago Mayoral Pick'em Poll

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Body Count

The Trace published a very slick, interactive map that shows “gun violence” across the US since 2014. Given our struggles in compiling the data for just one city, to do so for the entire county is an impressive feat. While we cannot speak for the validity of the data for locals other than Chicago, a quick spot check of their Chicago data shows that it’s pretty good.

All shootings on the left, police-involved shootings on the right.

This side-by-side shows all shootings vs just those that were police-involved for 2014-2022. For those that insist on claiming that the police are the source of most of the violence and stupidity, we’ll need a few thousand more dots on the right to be convinced otherwise.

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Stay Home, Don’t Vote

You’ve been told to stay home and don’t vote, but are now encouraged to vote early, vote often. Unfortunately, this tee will do nothing to help make up your mind about which method is best, but it will look good spreading confusion.

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Thanks to @Purplehip312 on Twitter for crafting the creative header image.

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