Chicago is going ballistic, literally. As a brutal year continues in Chicago, the city’s spiking homicide numbers have resulted in grim milestones and headlines. It took only until the end of the last Labor Day weekend for the city to have more homicides this year than it did in all of last year, and the numbers just keep climbing.

There are only two American cities with bigger populations than Chicago — New York and Los Angeles — and even if you combine their homicide totals, the tally still lags behind the Windy City.

Here is an example of a typical Saturday night in Chi-Town.

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