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Chicago ends 2020 with 769 homicides as gun violence surges

by Don Babwin
| January 1, 2021 10:06 AM

CHICAGO (AP) — The number of homicides and shootings in Chicago spiked dramatically in 2020, ending with more bloodshed than in all but one year in more than two decades, statistics released by police on Friday revealed.

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