# @nbcchicago on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DY0p4EojYdQ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/66051010-nbcchicago-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-05-27T00:55:05.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NBC Chicago (@nbcchicago) — https://gondola.cc/nbcchicago

## Caption

Chicago leaders are optimistic that violence in the city could be trending in a positive direction after police reported there were no murders over Memorial Day weekend --- a first in at least a decade.  Last year, there were four homicides during the same time period. Despite the drop in homicide rates over Memorial Day weekend, there was an uptick in both the number of people shot and the number of shooting incidents. 

Across the city, 36 people were injured in 23 separate shooting incidents over Memorial Day weekend (from 6 p.m. on May 22 through 11:59 p.m. on May 25), according to the Chicago Police Department. That’s slightly higher than in 2025, when 22 shootings left 25 people with injuries. 

“While we are encouraged by the comparatively low number of fatal shootings citywide and zero homicides over the holiday weekend, the work ahead is plentiful. Any act of violence is unacceptable,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said in a statement on Tuesday.  Of those 23 shooting incidents this year, at least three were mass shootings. 

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