CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- This past weekend was remarkable for what didn’t happen.
There was not a single homicide reported between 5 p.m. Friday and 5 a.m. Monday. That doesn’t happen often.
Nearly two dozen people were wounded in shootings and four were in critical condition.
The lack of homicides came on a weekend when thousands of people crowded the downtown to celebrate Mexican Independence Day. Like other holiday weekends, police traditionally increase patrols and move resources from neighborhoods to downtown districts.
It was just the second weekend of the year without a reported murder. The same weekend last year was one of the most violent with nine people killed and 54 wounded.
The Sun-Times Media Wire contributed to this report.
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