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More than 100 people were shot and 19 were killed in Chicago over the four-day Fourth of July weekend, according to police.From the morning of Thursday, July 4, through 11:59 p.m. Sunday, dozens of shootings were reported, including several mass shootings, leaving 84 people wounded. Two women died while shielding three children from gunfire in Chicago 's Grand Crossing neighborhood early Thursday morning.
A Chicago man was arrested after he allegedly robbed a victim at gunpoint in Elmhurst and then attempted to flee the scene in an Uber disguised as a woman.Bennie Gates, 19, faces one felony count of armed robbery with a firearm.At about 7:09 a.m. on July 5, Elmhurst police officers, who were on patrol in the area of Berkely and St. Charles Road, were flagged down by an individual who told them he had just been robbed by a man with a gun, later identified as Gates, prosecutors said.
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