Gun violence in Chicago is so commonplace that it no longer seems shocking. Instead, our city is the punchline for deadly shootings. Numbers are tracked every weekend, like a football game’s score. Around the world, the name Chicago often elicits imitations of a machine gun: “Rat, tat, tat, tat, tat…” It pisses us off, and we created this campaign and portal to piss off fellow residents and direct the outrage toward finding solutions.
More than 4,100 people were shot in Chicago last year.