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• Gov. Quinn outlined today how he plans to cut $1 billion from the state budget, including job cuts and asking some employees to give up pay raises.
• A violent month is drawing to a close; so far, 225 people have been shot in Chicago in July with 42 of those being deaths.
• A suspicious package found this morning outside Oprah's Harpo Productions, Inc building was proved to be safe.

In another outbreak of violence, at least 15 people were injured in a spate of shootings overnight. The most violent of those happened in East Garfield Park where seven were injured in one shooting. According to a Chicago Breaking News report:

• Two Chicago Police officers were shot today while trying to execute a warrant on the Southeast Side. Each officer was shot in a leg and both were reported in good condition.
• The police shooting followed last night's violent six hour window which saw four killed and eight wounded in shootings.
• Gov. Quinn has joined the fray over Burr Oak Cemetery, appointing a task force to look at cemetery operations state-wide.

Three Maywood teens were killed and a fourth injured early Saturday morning when the car they were in was riddled with bullets. Now, two days after the shooting, the families and police are left asking, "Why?" Devin Stokes (left), Kent Flowers Jr. (center), and Oscar Pritchett (right), all 18-years old, were killed in the shooting. A fourth boy remains in critical condition, though media outlets are not identifying him because he is considered a witness. The shooting happened in the 1900 block of Harrison Street, outside of Flowers' home shortly after midnight early Saturday morning.

A rash of shootings overnight in Chicago's South Austin neighborhood that occurred with a two-hour span left three men dead and two others injured. It's still unclear if the shootings were related.

The tragic epidemic of Chicago Public School students being killed continues. Percy Rounds (pictured), 15, was killed by gunfire just after 10 p.m. last night in the 100 block of West 116th Street. Two unknown men emerged from a nearby gangway, approached Rounds and an unnamed friend, and opened fire, striking Rounds in the head. He was pronounced dead at the Stein Institute a few hours later. The other teen, 17, was struck in thigh and was last reported in good condition at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. Rounds was to begin his freshman year at Hyde Park Career Academy High School in the fall.

Not to sound like a broken record but Sunday night and Monday morning saw a rash of violence to start the week off on the wrong foot.

As Police Supt. Weis and G-Rod spar over bringing in the National Guard and State Police to quell the rise in violence, crime continues and makes us wonder if we'd be better off with the Man of the Moment.

Just as Alderman Isaac Carothers is calling out top Cop Jody Weis, Chicago saw Thursday morning open with more shootings. The first happened on the North Side, in the Edgewater Beach neighborhood, around 3 a.m. A 24 year-old man was shot in the 5600 block of North Winthrop Avenue following what witnesses described as an argument with another man. The victim is currently in critical condition at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center.

The city continues to lose its ever-lovin' mind as four people were shot in the Loop Thursday night, one fatally, as roughly a million people left Grant Park following the city's annual lakefront fireworks display. The gunshots sent the crowd of celebrators scattering for cover behind cars. The first shooting happened near Dearborn and Van Buren. Courtney Thomas, 20, was shot in the head around 10:40 p.m. and pronounced dead shortly thereafter at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Moments later, there was another shooting nearby at Clark and Van Buren where a 17-year-old suffered a gunshot wound to the arm. He was treated and released. Two more young men were shot close to that scene: one in the butt and one suffering a grazed bullet to the head. Again, both were treated and released. As of this morning, police are holding a suspect whom they believe to be responsible for all three shootings, which were likely gang-related. [Trib, S-T, CBS2]