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CHICAGO – Shootings across Chicago killed at least seven people and wounded 32 others from about 6 p.m. Friday to early Monday.

This year, more than 1,500 people have been shot across the city, according to records kept by the Chicago Tribune. Almost 270 people have been killed, by gunshot wound or other weapon. About 1,000 people had been shot over the same period of time last year.

Friday night was the busiest of the weekend, with four people shot to death – at 6:45 p.m. in the Logan Square neighborhood, at 2:50 a.m. in Austin, at 3:15 a.m. in Longwood Manor and at 5:20 a.m. in West Englewood. Eighteen other people suffered gunshot wounds that night.

One person, a 16-year-old boy, was killed Friday morning in Bridgeport before the weekend started. Police charged one person with murder in the death that police had initially described as “accidental.”

Among those wounded were union members shot outside a Hegewisch neighborhood union hall Friday night.

Two people were killed and seven others wounded Saturday into Sunday. One man was killed in the South Shore neighborhood; police found him in a car stopped in an overgrown alley while they were responding to a call about gunfire. Another man was shot earlier in the evening in the Gresham neighborhood, according to authorities.

One person was killed and seven others wounded Sunday into Monday, according to police. The slain man was shot on Michigan Avenue near 24th Street and pronounced dead at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. A woman with him was wounded but survived.