Toll of holiday weekend reaches 100 shot, 14 killed
Fourteen people were killed and 86 others were wounded in shootings across Chicago in a bloody, extended Fourth of July weekend from Friday afternoon through early Wednesday morning.
Last year’s Independence Day weekend, which was one day shorter, ended with 66 people shot, four fatally.
Six of the people who died this year were among 36 people shot across the city in an eight- hour span between 8 p. m. Tuesday and 4 a. m. Wednesday.
Shortly after 3: 30 a. m. Wednesday in the Englewood neighborhood, a 42- year- old man was found on the sidewalk with multiple gunshot wounds in the 6200 block of South Laflin. He was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital, according to Chicago Police.
Two men were killed and two others were wounded in a shooting at 1: 17 a. m. in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side. Several males in a black SUV fired shots at the group as they were standing on the sidewalk in front of a house in the 11000 block of South Eberhart, police said.
Earlier Wednesday, one man was killed and another was injured in a West Garfield Park neighborhood shooting on the West Side. The victims were standing in an alley at 12: 26 a. m. in the 4000 block of West Lake when someone fired shots in their direction, police said. Jerame E. Moore, 30, was pronounced dead at the scene. A 37- year- old man suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.
Sun- Times Wire
Man injured when car goes under semi on I- 80/ 94
A man was seriously injured in a crash early Wednesday when his car went underneath a semi truck in northwest Indiana.
About 6: 25 a. m., the 23- year- old was driving a 2001 Chevy Cavalier west on Interstate 80/ 94 when he decided at the last moment to exit at Burr Street in Gary, according to Indiana State Police.
He drove from the left lane all the way to the exit lane and lost control, police said. The vehicle hit a construction barrel and then the rear of a semi trailer at a 45- degree angle. The vehicle came to rest wedged under the semi after being dragged about 290 feet.
No one in the semi was injured, police said.
Jacob Wittich
DeVry settles with Mass.
BOSTON — The DeVry University chain of for- profit colleges has agreed to a $ 455,000 settlement over allegations that it misled students in Massachusetts.
State Attorney General Maura Healey had accused the Illinois- based chain of using deceptive advertising claims to attract students into online programs between 2011 and 2015.
The company has no physical campuses in Massachusetts but offers online courses. Healey said the company advertised that 90 percent of its graduates found relevant jobs within six months, but Healey found rates as low as 52 percent. In the settlement, DeVry agreed not to misrepresent employment or earnings data.