This type of craziness has become commonplace in Chicago over the weekend, but this latest round of literal shootouts on the streets happened in the middle of the dang week:
At least one person was killed and more than two dozen people were wounded in three mass shootings over the course of six hours in Chicago, including one mass shooting involving a party bus that took place in the city's tony Lincoln Park neighborhood, not far from tourist attractions.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Wednesday saw two mass attacks "within minutes of each other" on the city's west side, followed by the shocking drive-by attack in Lincoln Park, just north of the city's downtown business district, and near the famed Second City theater and other notable landmarks.
The boy who was killed was only 14 years old.
A whopping 28 other people were injured, beating out last Wednesday's 27:
Here's how this week's shootings unfolded:
"In the first mass shooting Wednesday, two teenage boys and three men were at the corner of Douglas and Christiana when someone opened fire, police said. A 14-year-old boy was shot in the head and taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead," the Sun-Times noted. "Minutes later, three teens and two other people were shot just blocks away outside Theodore Herzl Elementary School near Douglas Boulevard and Ridgeway Avenue."
"In the third shooting involving the party bus, which occurred just before midnight in Lincoln Park, someone in a Jeep Grand Cherokee pulled up alongside the vehicle and opened fire," Fox News reported. "The victims in the attack ranged in age from 23 to 52, and are currently in good to serious conditions at local hospitals."
Absolutely bonkers.
Here's the party bus that was shot up:
This is America's third-largest city, not Baghdad.
With 413 murders (probably outdated right after this is published) and over 1,600 shootings in 2021 so far, it's now a war zone.