7 shot and wounded as gunfight erupts Chicago's Englewood

The recent incident reported from Chicago’s South Side has led experts to believe that it could be one of Chicago's most violent years in terms of gun violence in recent memory.

Seven people were shot and wounded in a Chicago neighborhood in a burst of gun violence during what's shaping up to be one of the city's most violent years in memory, police said.

In this file picture from March 2021, Chicago police work the scene of a shooting on Chicago's South Side. The area witnessed gun violence again on Monday as seven people were wounded in a gunfight. (AP/For Representative Purposes Only)

The seven were involved in a fight on the sidewalk when shots were fired about 11:10 p.m. Monday in the Englewood neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, police said. A 39-year-old woman was hospitalized in serious condition after she was shot in the arm and abdomen, police said.

Five men were hospitalized in fair condition, while another person was in good condition after walking into a hospital in the Cook County suburb of Harvey with a gunshot wound to the leg, police said.

No one was in custody Tuesday morning and detectives were investigating.

The shooting comes amid recent violence in the city. The day before, on Easter Sunday, separate shootings across Chicago left seven people dead and at least 10 more with gunshot wounds.

Just last week, the department reported that by the end of March there were 131 homicides compared with 98 for the same period last year. And the number of shootings had already climbed past the 700 mark — more than 200 more than had been recorded during the first three months of last year.

Those totals and the weekend slayings puts the city on a pace to eclipse the 769 homicides in 2020, which was the deadliest year in all but one year in the previous two decades.