July 2, 2025, Chicago, Illinois, USA: People walk near an ambulance while officers work the scene where four people were killed and 14 others were wounded in a shooting near the 300 block of West Chicago Avenue in the River North neighborhood. (Credit Image: © Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune via ZUMA Press Wire) 
June 11, 2025, Chicago, Illinois, USA: Police officers wear T-shirts with a picture of Officer Krystal Rivera during a prayer vigil in her memory at the 6th District station in Chicago. Rivera was fatally shot June 5 by another officer inadvertently as they responded to an investigation. (Credit Image: © John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune via ZUMA Press Wire) 
June 11, 2025, Chicago, Illinois, USA: Police officers wear T-shirts with a picture of Officer Krystal Rivera during a prayer vigil in her memory at the 6th District station in Chicago. Rivera was fatally shot June 5 by another officer inadvertently as they responded to an investigation. (Credit Image: © John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune via ZUMA Press Wire) 
August 1, 2024, Chicago, Illinois, USA: ROSIE HENRY, right, and her daughter SHERICA HENRY embrace after family, friends, and co-workers of Rafael Wordlaw released balloons in memory of the 31-year-old in Chicago’s Fuller Park. Wordlaw, an off-duty Cook County Sheriff’s deputy, died in a shooting and crash at Woodlawn after someone tried to rob him. Rosie is the aunt of Wordlaw and Sherica is the cousin of Wordlaw.(Credit Image: © Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune via ZUMA Press Wire) 
February 5, 2025, Chicago, Illinois, USA: Chicago police investigate after two Innovations High School students were fatally shot on Wabash Avenue between Madison and Washington streets in Chicago. (Credit Image: © Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune via ZUMA Press Wire)
Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Issue #996 Story of the Week: Published: TUESDAY July 15, 2025: ‘Cycle Of Violence’ by ZUMA Press represented Chicago Tribune photojournalist’s: Brian Cassella, John J. Kim, Terrence Antonio James, Antonio Perez, Armando L. Sanchez, Chris Sweda and Peter Tsai. The city of Chicago saw a historic drop in homicides in the first half of the year, a trend that has largely been mirrored nationwide. However a new report shows a decreasing percentage of Chicagoans survive gunfire. Researchers and experts say access to more lethal weapons and devices that make guns more dangerous are to blame. Chicago experiences devastating levels of violence, from 2016 through 2020, 3,276 people were killed with another 13,546 non-fatal shooting victims. Deadly shootings have made up a steadily larger share of the city’s gun violence statistics, according to data from the Chicago Violence Reduction Dashboard and studies from the University of Chicago Crime Lab. As summer brings warmer weather the city of Chicago normally sees an uptick in violence. The number of people slain so far in 2025: 219. That’s 97 fewer people killed when compared with 2024. Welcome to ‘Cycle Of Violence’
Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press
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