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The City's Cost

The City of Chicago paid more than $7 million in settlements of wrongful death suits for fatal police shootings filed during the period from 2000 to August 2007.

Sources: Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune articles, analyzed by The Chicago Reporter; Supplemental Homicide Report, analyzed by Investigative Reporters and Editors

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