This is, quite literally, the bag of the century:
A fatal shooting happened in Chicago and it was all perfectly legal.
Jose Guzman became the first hunter in more than 150 years to shoot a deer inside Windy City limits earlier this week, when he bagged a doe with a crossbow. Guzman brought down the animal from a tree stand in William Powers State Recreation Area on the city's Southeast Side.
Just to emphasize, the William Powers State Recreation Area is very much within the city limits and close to the downtown area.
And let me tell you something, it's been a while since this happened:
The last known deer to be taken legally by a hunter in the city was in 1865, by first ward alderman William Cox, according to Joel Greenberg, author of "A Natural History of the Chicago Region." That hunt took place in an area described as "where a forest of cottonwoods and oaks contested with a reluctant prairie, land that was to become the great stockyards."
Abe Lincoln upon learning that, at long last, the great American sport of hunting has returned to Illinois's great metropolis:
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