Chicago: It's so much easier to blame inanimate objects then a protected class of people.

Police promise more patrols as West Side bears brunt of Memorial Day gun violence

Chicago Tribune reporters and photographers will be out covering the city's violent crime over the course of the Memorial Day weekend, from Friday, May 27, 2016, to early Tuesday, May 31, 2016. A live blog of the weekend's coverage can be found here.

traditionally has been a very tough place to police,” he said at a morning news conference.e head while sitting in a car with a woman around 5:20 p.m. Saturday in the Fuller Park neighborhood on the South Side. Someone walked up to the car as it sat parked in the 200 block of West Root Street and fired, police said., it’s a beautiful route to drive and it’s a safe route to drive.”

Veronica Lopez, 15, was shot and killed while riding in a car on Lake Shore Drive in the early morning hours of May 28, 2016.

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