{"id":1069744,"date":"2021-11-30T18:15:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T23:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1069744"},"modified":"2021-11-30T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T23:16:00","slug":"illinois-cook-county-surpasses-1000-annual-homicides-for-first-time-in-27-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illinois-cook-county-surpasses-1000-annual-homicides-for-first-time-in-27-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois&#039; Cook County Surpasses 1,000 Annual Homicides for First Time in 27 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fillinois-cook-county-surpasses-1000-annual-homicides-for-first-time-in-27-years%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1069744&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1258061233-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Cook County, Illinois, has claimed a grim milestone with over 1,000 homicides in 2021, the highest total since there were 1,141 homicides 27 years ago, the country\u2019s&nbsp;Medical Examiner\u2019s Office <a href=\"https:\/\/wgntv.com\/news\/chicagocrime\/cook-county-medical-examiners-office-confirms-over-1000-homicides-for-first-time-in-27-years\/\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"author url fn\" title=\"Posts by WGN Web Desk\" href=\"https:\/\/wgntv.com\/author\/wgn-web-desk\/\" rel=\"author\">WGN Web Desk<\/a>&nbsp;reports:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"13\">\n<p>There have been 1,009 homicides to date in 2021 in Cook County, showing an increase over 986 homicides recorded in all of 2020. Last year\u2019s homicide totals were more than 40 percent higher than 2019\u2019s total of 675. The county\u2019s record for most homicides in a year was recorded in 1991, when 1,229 homicides were handled by the Medical Examiner\u2019s Office. The city of Chicago has registered 777 confirmed homicides in 2021, with just under 23 percent occurring in suburban Cook County.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) has received pointed criticism over her handling of gun violence in her Democrat-run city, which saw nearly 40 people shot by Sunday morning alone during Thanksgiving weekend. 20 city council members previously urged for the public safety committee chairman to conduct hearings on gun violence.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cNobody\u2019s going to save us,\u201d criminal justice reform activist Will Calloway <a href=\"https:\/\/wgntv.com\/news\/chicagocrime\/20-chicago-aldermen-call-for-public-safety-hearing-amid-rising-gun-violence\/\">said<\/a>. \u201cLet\u2019s put an end to this madness. Come on, there\u2019s babies getting shot in the streets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot has repeatedly blamed the recent surge in violence in major U.S. cities such as Chicago on the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no question that the COVID-related impact on the public safety system in Chicago, in New York, in L.A., D.C. and other cities across the country is real. And what we\u2019ve got to continue to do is make sure that we\u2019re demanding of our courts and our prosecutors that they hold violent people accountable and keep them off our streets,\u201d the mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2021\/10\/28\/chicago-mayor-lightfoot-no-question-coronavirus-to-blame-for-recent-rise-in-violence\/\">told<\/a> MSNBC last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a huge issue for us in Chicago, and we have to continue fighting that fight,\u201d she added. \u201cAnd then we\u2019ve also got to play the long game at getting at the root causes of the violence, which is poverty, lack of investment, lack of jobs and \u2026 lack of hope. We got to disrupt the pipeline of young souls that are going to the streets and subject to the predatory tactics of the gangs by giving them hope in a future that isn\u2019t minding somebody\u2019s corner spot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cook County, Illinois, has claimed a grim milestone with over 1,000 homicides in 2021, the highest total since there were 1,141 homicides 27 years ago, the country\u2019s\u00a0Medical Examiner\u2019s Office said. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1069744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}