The carnage on Chicago's streets continued its record-setting pace in August with a body count of 90 – the bloodiest single month in 20 years. Meanwhile, the city has already seen the number of killings surpass all of last year – with four months left to go. Chicago Tribune: Through the first eight months of the year, the city recorded 472 homicides, 150 more than a year earlier and just one shy of the total for all of 2015, according to official Police Department statistics. The eight-month toll marked the most killings in Chicago since 488 people were slain through August 1997. This August alone ended with 90 homicides, the deadliest single month since July 1993 when 99 were killed. Asked during a brief telephone interview Wednesday what the department could do better to stem the violence, police Superintendent Eddie Johnson pointed to seizures of illegal guns closing in on 6,000 so far this year. Johnson, who again blamed the proliferation of...(Read Full Post)