Chiraq: 3 dead and at least 17 wounded in weekend shootings

This weekend's Chicago mayhem reached outside of its traditional areas. A man shot to death in the lobby of the Hyatt McCormick Place in the South Loop was one of three murders in Chiraq over the weekend. At least seventeen other people were wounded including a Loyola University student on its Rogers Park campus and a woman riding in a car near Navy Pier on the Gold Coast.

Since New Year's Day there have been about ten shootings a day in Chicago.