Welcome to the brand-new morning article #afterdark, a roundup of crime (and more) happenings from around Chicago overnight.
- Two men were killed and at least 17 others were wounded in shootingsacross Chicago over the weekend, including a 12-year-old boy and a 13-year-old boy.
- Four Chicago Police officers were injured while rescuing a family from a fire early Monday in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side.
Firefighters begin to pack up after extinguishing a house fire at the 3900 block of West Congress Parkway. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times
- A man suffered puncture wounds to the chest and neck Sunday afternoon in the West Side Humboldt Park neighborhood. He was taken in serious condition to Mount Sinai Hospital, but the circumstances surrounding the attack weren’t immediately clear.
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