to Advocate Christ Medical Center.

At 9:40 a.m., a 17-year-old was shot in the 1000 block of North Ridgeway Avenue in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. He was hit in the right arm when he was caught in the crossfire as two people shot at each other, according to what he told police. He managed to get to Norwegian American Hospital.

According to the Chicago Tribune’s homicide monitor, there have been 238 fatal shootings this year in Chicago, compared to 489 for all of last year.

The Chicago Tribune also reported earlier in April that the city had topped its 1,000 shooting “weeks earlier” than previous years.

The increase in shootings and homicides is linked to two factors: the exponentially growing nonwhite population, spurred on by massive Hispanic immigration, and the “Black LivesPrimary neoplasms of the cervical spine. Diagnosis and treatment of twenty-three patients.
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