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CHICAGO — Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Friday blamed too many guns on city streets and parents not keeping track of their children for a week of violence in Chicago that culminated Thursday night with a mass shooting outside a McDonald’s restaurant and CTA station on the Near North Side.

CHICAGO — A mass shooting that started with a brawl among two groups of young people left two killed and seven wounded late Thursday, blocks from the Magnificent Mile, according to Chicago police, who say they have one person in custody.

If we do not act, I am worried our city will become a place where political corruption, social instability, inequality and governmental incompetence lead to privatization of the most basic public services.

The bus was carrying around 50 people when it rear ended another car Thursday morning near 47th Street.

The man, 25, was on the elevator at the station in the 1100 block of South State Street when four people took his backpack and punched him in the face, police said.

Three teenagers have been charged in a string of recent robberies on Chicago Transit Authority trains.

Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said the department will add officers to downtown, targeted neighborhoods where crime has been “displaced.”

CHICAGO — Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday that she was “not happy” about violence that again touched downtown Chicago over the weekend and ended with a cancellation of Sunday night’s performance of the play "Moulin Rouge."

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