A 4-year-old boy who was visiting Chicago has died two days after gunfire entered the Woodlawn home where he was getting a haircut.

Mychal Moultry Jr. was struck twice in his head as gunfire tore through the front window 9 p.m. Friday in the 6500 block of South Ellis Avenue, according to Chicago police.

He died Sunday evening at Comer Children’s Hospital, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The child, who loved the movie “Cars,” was visiting from Alabama, the boy’s father told WGN9.

“Every parent loves him,” Mychal Moultry Sr. told the station. “Everyone would want a kid just like him.” Mychal loved softball and trips to the beach.

The boy’s father held him until paramedics arrived at the scene of the shooting, community activist Andrew Holmes said.

Outside the home, shell casings littered the front yard of a three-story apartment building that had a shattered front window.

The boy’s mother, a 34-year-old woman, was taken to a hospital for lacerations related to the shooting, according to the Chicago Fire Department.

Police reported no arrests.

Deputy Chief of Detectives Rahman Muhammad told reporters Monday that the child was getting his haircut when bullets entered the home. Detectives were searching for video and witnesses, he said.

Outside Comer Children’s Hospital Friday night, advocates try to console the father of a child who was shot in Woodlawn.Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

Mychal is the second 4-year-old to die from gun violence in Chicago this year. Makalah McKay was accidentally shot by another child who found a gun Aug. 5 in the 6400 block of South Carpenter Street in Englewood.

The child was also the second 4-year-old to be wounded in gun violence in Chicago this week.

On Tuesday, a 4-year-old girl was shot and wounded while she combed a doll’s hair on the stoop of her home in Englewood. Police said she was caught in the crossfire of gunmen in two cars.

In June, a 4-year-old boy was wounded in an accidental shooting on the same block where Friday’s shooting occurred. Police said the child was hit in the hand and a 17-year-old boy was shot in the foot June 21. A 15-year-old boy seen leaving the home was arrested and charged with unauthorized use of a weapon.

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Chicago police outside Comer Children’s Hospital, where a 4-year-old boy was taken in critical condition Friday night after being shot in Woodlawn.Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

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The Cubs activated infielder David Bote from the 10-day injured list before Monday’s game against the Reds. Bote had been on the injured list since Aug. 28 with a sprained right ankle, he suffered stepping on a baseball.

Bote’s activation from the injured list came about an hour before first pitch after going through a full pregame routine, including taking batting practice, running the bases and taking ground balls on the infield.

Bote’s slashing .202/.270/.339 with eight homers an 32 RBIs in 78 games this season.

To make room for Bote on the active roster, the Cubs designated infielder Andrew Romine for assignment.

Infielder Nico Hoerner went through a full pregame routine of baseball activities with Bote and also took batting practice, ground balls ran the bases before the game. Hoerner has been on the IL since July 29 with a right oblique strain.

“They’re moving forward,” interim manager Andy Green said before the game. “David closer than Nico. I believe Nico was scheduled to take some BP on the field today. I haven’t gotten a report on how that went, hopefully went very well.”

Wicks makes minor-league starting debut

Cubs’ 2021 first-round pick Jordan Wicks made his professional debut on Sunday for High-A South Bend. Wicks, 22, tossed a scoreless inning, striking out one batter in the game. The Cubs drafted Wicks out of Kansas State University with the 21st overall pick in July.

The Cubs’ southpaw had been pitching at the team’s complex in Arizona since the draft, but will spend the final weeks of the season in South Bend.

“Every time you go to a new level, you get excited competing against new guys,” Wicks said in July. “Just the newness and the excitement of it and I’m excited for the new experiences to learn along the way.

“I’m excited to do it with such a world class organization – an organization with so much history. and to be able to get out there and to compete at a new level, compete against new players and to have this as your job is a childhood dream.”

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Green on Cubs’ COVID-19 scare: “We’re hopeful, cautiously optimistic at this point, but we’re still hopeful. We have the three-to-five day window. Still right in kind of the prime of it when someone could potentially test positive as far as I know. This day, every one of the guys who have come in including myself and tested negative. So we haven’t seen it spread and I think if we clear tomorrow, that’s approaching the end of our testing window that would come back to us on Wednesday morning, the last day before the off day and if we’re clear all the way through there, we’ll continue to be as cautiously optimistic as all of us can be in a COVID world that we live in right now.”

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Five people have been killed and 53 others, including eight children, have been wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday evening.

The youngest homicide victim was a 4-year-old boy shot Friday in Woodlawn on the South Side.

Mychal Moultry was getting a haircut inside his home around 9 p.m. in the 6500 block of South Ellis Avenue when bullets tore through the front window, Chicago police said.

The boy’s father held him until paramedics arrived, community activist Andrew Holmes said. The child was pronounced dead Sunday.

Detectives were searching for video and witnesses of the shooting.

Police Superintendent David Brown on Monday pleaded with the community to help detectives after seven other children 17 years old and younger were wounded in shooting over the weekend.

“We need people in the community to come forward,” Brown said Monday. “This is beyond trusting police. This is about the safety of our babies.”

Brown said the children were almost always the unintended victims of the shootings. He said the shooters are usually targeting someone else, whether it be a stranger or possibly a relative during a family gathering.

“Stay away from these children,” Brown said. “You’re harming these communities.”

Seven other children wounded in gun violence

Seven other juveniles had been shot between 5 p.m. Friday and Monday morning.

On Saturday, a 16-year-old boy with a gunshot wound showed up at Stroger Hospital, Chicago police said. Later that day, three people, including a 12-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl, were wounded in a shooting near a back-to-school event in East Garfield Park. Police said they recovered the car used in the shooting but still had no arrest.

Saturday night, a 15-year-old boy was shot in a drive-by in Englewood on the South Side, and 13-year-old boy was seriously wounded in a shooting in South Chicago. Police said the 13-year-old was in a basement with friends when someone shot in through a window.

Sunday morning, a 14-year-old boy was shot and wounded while walking to a car with his father in Little Village on the Southwest Side, and a 17-year-old was among two shot in Washington Park on the South Side.

Outside Comer Children’s Hospital Friday night, advocates try to console the father of a 4-year-old boy who was shot in Woodlawn.Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

Bus driver shot

A CTA bus driver was shot in the Loop about 9 p.m Saturday. The 34-year-old driver was attacked and then shot in the jaw on Washington Avenue near State Street, police said. A person was arrested but not charges have been filed.

South Loop shooting

A driver was shot and crashed into a light post Saturday night in the South Loop. The man, 28, was shot in his foot while driving around 11:45 p.m. in the 500 block of South Wabash Avenue, police said. He was hospitalized in good condition. Police said the gunman fired shots from inside a white vehicle.

Mass shooting in Lawndale

In nonfatal attacks, five people were shot and wounded in a single incident Saturday morning in Lawndale. The five were among a group of people about 12:15 a.m. in the 1400 block of South Tripp Avenue when someone inside a black Nissan opened fire, police said.

Three women and two men, all between 22 and 37 years old, were taken to hospitals in good or fair condition, police said.

Homicides

Four other people have been killed in weekend gun violence.

— A 50-year-old man was killed Monday morning in the West Garfield Park neighborhood. He was shot in a car around 6:20 a.m. in the 4200 block of West Washington Boulevard, Chicago police said. He was struck several times in his body, arm, head and mouth, and crashed his car into a fixed object. The man died at the scene. He hasn’t been identified.

— A person was killed Sunday afternoon in South Shore. A male was inside of a vehicle about 2:45 p.m. in the 7800 block of South Clyde Avenue when he suffered a gunshot wound to his head, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. His name and age haven’t been released.

— Hours earlier, a man was shot and killed Sunday morning in Brighton Park. The 23-year-old was shot around 5:30 a.m. in the 3700 block of South Kedzie Avenue after someone in another car spoke with him while they were stopped in traffic, police said. The person opened fire and struck him in the head. His vehicle went southbound after the light turned green, police said, then stopped in the 5500 block of South Albany Avenue. That’s where the man was pronounced dead.

— Saturday night, a man was shot and killed in Lawndale on the West Side. Officers responded to calls of a person shot about 11:50 p.m. in the 1600 block of South Central Park Avenue and found a 41-year-old man lying between two parked cars with two gunshot wounds to the chest, police said. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where he was later died. Police initially said the shooting happened in the 1600 block of North Central Park.

At least 40 other people were wounded in shootings over the holiday weekend.

Last weekend, at least six people were killed and 50 others wounded in gun violence across Chicago.

Chicago police investigate early Saturday in the 1400 block of South Tripp Avenue, where five people were shot and wounded in a mass shooting in Lawndale on the Southwest Side.Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

Shell casings sits in the street Saturday night in the 7000 block of South Sangamon, where a 15-year-old boy was wounded in a drive-by shooting in Englewood on the South Side.Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

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Five people have been killed and 53 others, including eight children, have been wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday evening.

The youngest homicide victim was a 4-year-old boy shot Friday in Woodlawn on the South Side. Mychal Moultry was inside a home about 9 p.m. in the 6500 block of South Ellis Avenue when bullets tore through the front window, authorities said.

The boy’s father held him until paramedics arrived, community activist Andrew Holmes said. The child was pronounced dead Sunday.

Seven other juveniles wounded in gun violence

By Monday morning, seven other people 17 or younger had been shot since 5 p.m. Friday.

On Saturday, a 16-year-old boy with a gunshot wound showed up at Stroger Hospital, Chicago police said. Later that day, three people, including a 12-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl, were wounded in a shooting near a back-to-school event in East Garfield Park.

Saturday night, a 15-year-old boy was shot in a drive-by in Englewood on the South Side, and 13-year-old boy was seriously wounded in a shooting in South Chicago.

Sunday morning, a 14-year-old was shot and wounded in Little Village on the Southwest Side, and a 17-year-old was among two shot in Washington Park on the South Side.

Outside Comer Children’s Hospital Friday night, advocates try to console the father of a 4-year-old boy who was shot in Woodlawn.Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

Bus driver shot

A CTA bus driver was shot in the Loop about 9 p.m Saturday. The 34-year-old driver was attacked and then shot in the jaw on Washington Avenue near State Street, police said. A person was arrested but not charges have been filed.

South Loop shooting

A driver was shot and crashed into a light post Saturday night in the South Loop. The man, 28, was shot in his foot while driving around 11:45 p.m. in the 500 block of South Wabash Avenue, police said. He was hospitalized in good condition. Police said the gunman fired shots from inside a white vehicle.

Mass shooting in Lawndale

In nonfatal attacks, five people were shot and wounded in a single incident Saturday morning in Lawndale. The five were among a group of people about 12:15 a.m. in the 1400 block of South Tripp Avenue when someone inside a black Nissan opened fire, police said.

Three women and two men, all between 22 and 37 years old, were taken to hospitals in good or fair condition, police said.

Homicides

Four other people have been shot dead in weekend gun violence.

— A 50-year-old man was killed Monday morning in the West Garfield Park neighborhood. He was shot in a car around 6:20 a.m. in the 4200 block of West Washington Boulevard, Chicago police said. He was struck several times in his body, arm, head and mouth, and crashed his car into a fixed object. The man died at the scene. He hasn’t been identified.

— A person was killed Sunday afternoon in South Shore. A male was inside of a vehicle about 2:45 p.m. in the 7800 block of South Clyde Avenue when he suffered a gunshot wound to his head, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. His name and age haven’t been released.

— Hours earlier, a man was shot and killed Sunday morning in Brighton Park. The 23-year-old was shot around 5:30 a.m. in the 3700 block of South Kedzie Avenue after someone in another car spoke with him while they were stopped in traffic, police said. The person opened fire and struck him in the head. His vehicle went southbound after the light turned green, police said, then stopped in the 5500 block of South Albany Avenue. That’s where the man was pronounced dead.

— Saturday night, a man was shot and killed in Lawndale on the West Side. Officers responded to calls of a person shot about 11:50 p.m. in the 1600 block of South Central Park Avenue and found a 41-year-old man lying between two parked cars with two gunshot wounds to the chest, police said. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where he was later died. Police initially said the shooting happened in the 1600 block of North Central Park.

At least 40 other people were wounded in shootings over the holiday weekend.

Last weekend, at least six people were killed and 50 others wounded in gun violence across Chicago.

Chicago police investigate early Saturday in the 1400 block of South Tripp Avenue, where five people were shot and wounded in a mass shooting in Lawndale on the Southwest Side.Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

Shell casings sits in the street Saturday night in the 7000 block of South Sangamon, where a 15-year-old boy was wounded in a drive-by shooting in Englewood on the South Side.Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

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A 4-year-old boy died two days after he was shot inside a home Friday in the Woodlawn neighborhood.

Mychal Moultry died Sunday evening at Comer Children’s Hospital, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Mychal was shot twice in his head after bullets came through the front window of his home around 9 p.m. Friday in the 6500 block of South Ellis Avenue, Chicago police said.

The boy’s father held him until paramedics arrived, community activist Andrew Holmes said.

At the scene of the shooting, shell casings littered the front yard of a three-story apartment building that had a shattered front window.

Police reported no arrests as of Sunday evening.

A 34-year-old woman was also taken to a hospital for lacerations related to the shooting, according to the Chicago Fire Department.

Outside Comer Children’s Hospital Friday night, advocates try to console the father of a child who was shot in Woodlawn.Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

He’s the second 4-year-old to die from gun violence in Chicago this year. Makalah McKay was accidentally shot by another child who found a gun Aug. 5 in the 6400 block of South Carpenter Street in Englewood.

The child was also the second 4-year-old to be wounded in gun violence in Chicago this week.

On Tuesday, a 4-year-old girl was shot and wounded while she combed a doll’s hair on the stoop of her home in Englewood. Police said she was caught in the crossfire of gunmen in two cars.

In June, a 4-year-old boy was wounded in an accidental shooting on the same block where Friday’s shooting occurred. Police said the child was hit in the hand and a 17-year-old boy was shot in the foot June 21. A 15-year-old boy seen leaving the home was arrested and charged with unauthorized use of a weapon.

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Chicago police outside Comer Children’s Hospital, where a 4-year-old boy was taken in critical condition Friday night after being shot in Woodlawn.Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

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In the summer of 2015, Jitu Brown, president of the Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization, led a 34-day hunger strike to pressure the Chicago Board of Education to reopen Dyett High School, one of 50 schools shut down during Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s first term. As a result of the strike, Dyett is now operating as a neighborhood arts academy. But Brown and his fellow strikers had to starve themselves to get the attention of the school board.

Those seven board members were appointed by the mayor. But by 2027, for the first time in history, Chicago Public Schools is going to be run by an elected board. In June, the state legislature passed a bill to create a 21-member assembly that will include 20 representatives elected from districts and a president who will be voted upon citywide. The Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization has been campaigning for just such a board since 2006, but Brown says Emanuel’s “brazen” school closings “inflamed people” enough to actually make it happen. It won’t be so easy to close schools once every neighborhood is represented. “An elected school board will make it harder to move policies that are not in the interests of our children, and school closings is one of those policies,” Brown predicts.

Here are a few more things that proponents and opponents of an elected school board say we can expect.

■ A politicized school board When you create a new elected body, you create a new political battleground. The Civic Federation, which opposed an elected board, noted in a position paper that “in Los Angeles, a record $17.7 million was spent in the 2020 school board elections as teachers’ union and charter school-backed candidates battled for control of the board.” State senator Robert Martwick, a Chicago Democrat, says the 21-member board was created to make campaigns less expensive: “The smaller the number of voters, the more grassroots involvement.” The legislature is considering a bill to provide public financing for school board elections so low-income parents can afford to run. Still, Martwick acknowledges, “we can’t stop the Chicago Teachers Union or charter schools from spending money independently.”

■ More transparent hiring Barbara Byrd-Bennett, one of Emanuel’s handpicked school district CEOs, went to prison for accepting kickbacks on no-bid contracts. Another Emanuel CEO, Forrest Claypool, resigned after he was accused of lying during an ethics investigation. Samay Gheewala, assistant director for policy at Illinois Families for Public Schools, believes mayors prize insiders with elite credentials over leaders who will be accountable to the public: “The people who picked Barbara Byrd-Bennett want to go to the parties at the Commercial Club. That’s who they’re going to be hassled by. An elected school board member will be responsible to the neighborhood.”

■ A disconnect between city and schools Martwick thinks he’s doing mayors a favor by relieving them of responsibility for schools. “Shouldn’t the mayor be focused on the city government?” he asks. “I think [Emanuel] was a terrible head of schools, but he was a good mayor.” Could stripping the mayor of power over education damage the district’s finances, though? This fiscal year, the city provided $415 million to CPS to fund pensions of employees other than teachers, debt service funding, and capital projects. “If you create a situation where the mayor can wash their hands of a decision on schools, that absolves them of responsibility,” says Daniel Anello, CEO of Kids First Chicago. Once CPS becomes independent, the Civic Federation noted, “it is not clear that the city would or should be obligated to fund CPS.” Amanda Kass, associate director of the Government Finance Research Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago, wrote in a blog post that she thinks the city will still be responsible for the pension payments, at least: “This isn’t something the mayor has discretion [over] and is choosing to do.”

■ Fewer charter schools More than 55,000 students attend CPS’s 115 charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately run. Critics argue they rob funds from neighborhood schools but are no more effective. Gheewala thinks an elected board would approve fewer charters or even institute a moratorium: “There is the perception that charters are not providing a better education. When you’ve got seven people who are appointed, they’re easier to lobby. When you’re responsive to voters who understand that charters are not providing a service, you’ll see fewer of them.”

■ Board members knowing their communities Remember Derrion Albert? He was a student from Altgeld Gardens who was bused to Christian Fenger Academy High School after the housing project’s neighborhood school was turned into a military academy. Mayor Richard M. Daley’s board of ed didn’t know or didn’t care that the plan put members of rival gangs in the same school. Albert was beaten to death with a railroad tie during a gang brawl in 2009. “When that school exploded, they looked stupid,” Brown says. “If you want to say gang lines don’t matter, you make the investment in communities so it don’t matter.”

■ A better education for Chicago’s children? Fans of an appointed board point to the fact that CPS’s graduation rate has increased from below 50 percent to 80 percent since full mayoral control was instituted in 1995. Not even the strongest proponents of an elected school board promise it will improve classroom performance. “I never had any intentions or designs on what the system of education would look like,” Martwick says. “Is this going to bring us better student outcomes? Fix our finances? It’s about when people screw up, there’s accountability.” Florence Cox was president of the 15-member board of education in the early 1990s, before full mayoral control, and favors an elected board. “The board can be elected or appointed,” she says. “It’s not going to be any better than the people who serve.” Those who’ve been fighting for an elected board hope it will attract better people — or, at least, people who listen to what the parents want.

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In the nine(ish) years since “Kinky Boots” debuted in Chicago, drag queens have gone as mainstream as reality TV. Lola, the leading queen of the Tony-winning musical by Harvey Fierstein (book) and Cyndi Lauper (music and lyrics), doesn’t have the shock value she did back in the years before “RuPaul’s Drag Race” had franchises in five different countries.

The increasing ubiquity (and marketability) of drag changes the context of “Kinky Boots,” running through Oct. 17 in an appropriately extravagant, way-larger-than-life production at the Paramount Theatre in Aurora. Based on the 2005 movie of the same name, the musical tale of Lola, a London drag queen who saves a working-class shoe factory, isn’t as inherently subversive as it used to be. But as directed by Trent Stork for Paramount’s cavernous stage, “Kinky Boots” remains an irrepressible delight. Lauper’s music and lyrics evoke all the feels and probably some you didn’t know you had. Fierstein’s book fails its non-drag leading ladies, but as the story moves from factory floor to fashion show, it engulfs the audience in its exuberance nonetheless.

Crucially, Stork’s ensemble (33 strong!) isn’t just a group of capable singer-actor-dancers. They radiate the joy and energy that ultimately defines the show, committing full-throttle to a production that’s all about finding your truth and living it without shame or apology. Whether you’re a drag queen or no, that’s a message worth heeding. Wisely, “Kinky Boots” doesn’t lead with Lola (Michael Wordly). First, we meet Charlie (Devin DeSantis), the son of a shoe factory owner, determined not to follow his father into the business of brogues. In the dun-and-drab world of the factory, Charlie is faced with firing the workers who have devoted their lives to it, even as towers of unsold inventory grow ever taller.

But after a meet-cute between Charlie and Lola (Charlie attempts to save Lola from would-be assailants. She does not need his help.), Lola gets a full spotlight. When we first see her clearly, she’s literally glowing, statuesque in golden heels, a shimmering, fringed body suit and a mug painted for the gods. The moment is more about celebration and less about shock than it used to be, but that’s not to the production’s disadvantage. The plot launches as Lola and Charlie come up with a plan to save the factory by ditching traditional shoes and instead making unicorn-and-glitter footwear fantasies capable of supporting a man, even on the highest, sharpest stiletto.

“The sex is in the heel,” according to Lauper’s lyrics in the kicky, eponymous song. Anyone beholding Wordly stomping the stage like the love child of Naomi Campbell and Andre Leon Talley slaying the catwalk would have to agree. Wordly has a lightness to his movements, even in six-inch heels and an even taller wig. He wears the drag rather than the other way around, which is no small achievement given the exaggerated femininity that drag often presents.

As Charlie, DeSantis is stuck playing the straight man to the much-more interesting Lola. Charlie is also a jerk sometimes: He mortgages his home without telling his fiance, Nicola (Emilie Lynn), and upends their plans to move to London with little discussion. It’s a tough role to empathize with, but when DeSantis finally reaches the second act barn-burner “The Soul of a Man,” he serves up an anthem powerful enough to make you almost forget Charlie’s clueless self-absorption.

Fierstein does not do as well with the supporting women’s roles. Nicola exists primarily as a cold, materialistic, faithless foil to the loyal, small-town sweetheart Lauren (Sara Reincke) who falls for Charlie. Reincke brings down the house with the hilariously universal “The History of Wrong Guys,” but one song can’t add depth to a character written with hardly any.

Stork’s designers do the show proud. Co-choreographers Michael George and Isaiah Silvia-Chandley instill humor and exquisite artistry into the dance numbers, especially the nightclub numbers where Lola and her “angels” are featured. Set designers Kevin Depinet and Christopher Rhoton create a credible factory floor for Price and Son, turning the neon to 11 when the action moves to the club where Lola performs. Costume designer Ryan Park’s workaday garb of the factory is spot-on, the gowns and silhouettes Lola and her backup dancers rock are spectacular. And keep an eye on those angels. They may be backup dancers, but they demand your attention with the same magnetic charisma as their boss.

Catey Sullivan is a Chicago freelance writer.

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Chicago Fire Department paramedics treat a man who was shot in the leg early Monday in the backyard of a home in the 9900 block of South La Salle Street in Fernwood on the South Side. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

The incidents occurred in the 9500 block of South Yale Avenue and 9900 block of South La Salle Street.

Two backyard shootings within four blocks of each other occurred a little over an hour apart early Monday on the South Side.

A 22-year-old man was standing in his backyard about 11:40 p.m. in the 9500 block of South Yale Avenue in Longwood Manor when he heard a loud noise and felt pain, according to Chicago Police.

He was shot in the face and transported to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was listed in serious condition, police said.

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A man reacts at the scene after a 22-year-old man was shot in the face early Monday in a backyard in the 9500 block of South Yale Avenue in Longwood Manor on the South Side.

Shortly after midnight, while detectives were looking into nearby trash cans and knocking on neighbors’ doors, a man approached the crime scene tape looking for his “brother.”

After being told that he couldn’t enter the home, the man stormed away in tears.

Less than 30 minutes later, at least 11 gunshots were heard in the distance.

Officers at the scene confirmed that the nearby gunfire was connected to a person shot less than a mile away — four blocks south and two blocks west.

About 1 a.m., a man, 50, was standing in a backyard in the 9900 block of La Salle Street in Fernwood when he was shot by someone who opened fire from a blue Buick, police said.

He was struck once in the leg and was taken to Roseland Community Hospital, where he was listed in good condition, police said.

The man could be seen groaning and wincing in the back of a Chicago Fire Department ambulance while paramedics treated the wound to his left leg.

Christmas lights hung from a wooden privacy fence in the backyard while officers searched with flashlights for shell casings and evidence in the grass.

No one was in custody for either incident as of early Monday morning.

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A Chicago police detective investigates in an alley behind a home in the 9500 block of South Yale Avenue early Monday, after a man was shot in the face in a backyard in Longwood Manor on the South Side.Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
Chicago police investigate in the backyard of a home in the 9900 block of South La Salle Street early Monday, where a man was shot in the leg in Fernwood on the South Side.Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
Chicago police investigate outside a home in the 9900 block of South La Salle Street early Monday, where a man was shot in the leg in Fernwood on the South Side.Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
Chicago police investigate outside a home in the 9500 block of South Yale Avenue early Monday, where a man was shot in the face in Longwood Manor on the South Side.

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