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Statewide: Violence at the end of the school day

NPR Illinois | 91.9 UIS | By Sean Crawford

Published February 16, 2023 at 12:19 PM CST

Fatal shootings of students near a school as they make their way home have been rare. But in Chicago in the last year there was a spike.

Last year, nine children 17 years old or younger were killed on a weekday in the hours that students head home — between 2 p.m. and 4:49 p.m. That's according to a WBEZ/Chicago Sun-Times analysis of shooting records and media accounts of killings over the last decade.

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