More Than 40 People Were Shot In Chicago Over Easter Weekend..The F...

The wild west...The feds are stepping into Chicago's seemingly intractable gun violence problem.

A newly-formed prosecutorial unit called the Violent Crimes section will focus solely on how federal statutes can be used to stem the city's bloody gun crime epidemic, the U.S Attorney's Office in Chicago announced Monday. The unit began operations April 1.

The announcement comes less than a day after five children were shot at a South Side park on Easter Sunday. The children, who were between 11 and 15 years old, were among the more than 40 people wounded by Chicago gun violence over the weekend, the Chicago Tribune reports.

Eight people died, the Associated Press reports.

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