Shooting in Skokie li

Five people are dead and at least 33 others have been wounded in shootings across the city of Skokie during the Fourth of July weekend, police say.

According to Skokie police data, collected between 6 p.m. Friday and 11:59 p.m. on the holiday, a total of 68 people were shot, eight fatally, over the same weekend last year.

The first homicide of the weekend was reported on Friday evening when a 43-year-old man was shot multiple times while he was cooking police said.

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