Dozens of kids took advantage of the free backpacks, pizza, sport drinks, as well as some on-court tips from the American Basketball Association’s Chicago Steam players and coaches.
“We’re out here today to reclaim the land that evil has taken away from us,” said State Rep. Esther Golar (D-Chicago).
An eruption of gunfire wounded at least 11 people throughout the city Wednesday night through early Thursday. A Chicago Police officer, in plain clothes, was wounded in a shootout with a 15-year-old boy around 8 p.m. Wednesday in the 1300 block of West 112th Place, police said. The incident began when officers stopped three teenage boys for “suspicious activity,” but the 15-year-old fired at the officers and “engaged in a gun battle,” Police Supt. Garry McCarthy told reporters late Wednesday. The injured officer — Nyls Meredith, a 35-year-old veteran who has been with the department for five years — was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn with non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said.
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