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Chicago passes 500 homicides in 2016 after bloody Labor Day weekend

By Kelly Cohen
Published September 6, 2016 5:09pm ET
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Chicago passes 500 homicides in 2016 after bloody Labor Day weekend
Homicides now stand at 512 total for so far in 2016. In all of 2015 there were 491 homicides in the city. (Ashlee Rezin /Chicago Sun-Times via AP) | Ashlee Rezin

This year’s homicide count in Chicago has topped 500 following a bloody Labor Day weekend in which 13 people were shot to death.

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