Commentary: Sen. Dick Durbin: Federal law is the missing link in solving Chicago’s gun violence
The year 2021 will be remembered as one of the deadliest in recent memory in Chicago and Illinois. The tragic deaths of nearly 800 victims of gun violence in Chicago are a grim chapter of heartbreak. I remember two in particular. In August, two little girls were shot after Sunday church outside their grandmother’s house on the Northwest Side. According to their father Michael, a CTA bus driver: ...
by Dick Durbin, Chicago Tribune
Jan 13, 2022
3 minutes
The year 2021 will be remembered as one of the deadliest in recent memory in Chicago and Illinois.
The tragic deaths of nearly 800 victims of gun violence in Chicago are a grim chapter of heartbreak. I remember two in particular.
In August, two little girls were shot after Sunday church outside their grandmother’s house on the Northwest Side. According to their father Michael, a CTA bus driver: “They shot her in the heart. She didn’t even get a chance to fight.”
Serenity Broughton, 7, died
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