Is This It?

Building, and maybe breaking?

• At least nine people were shot on a hot night in Chicago, and one of them was killed, authorities said. No one was in custody for any of the shootings this morning.

On a Sunday night no less. And Tommy Skilling says it's going to be hot all week.

And if anyone is still fantasizing we aren't short handed:

• Four men were wounded in two shootings about a block apart that police said were connected late Sunday and early Monday in the same Gresham neighborhood on the South Side.

  At 11:20 p.m. at 8519 S. Hoyne Ave. at least one assailant who was on foot shot three men, according to Gresham District police.

• At 12:06 a.m. another shootout occurred about a block away in the 8400 block of South Hamilton Avenue and police said it was connected to the earlier one because they were so close in time and location.

  Investigators are looking into the possibility that it occurred in retaliation for the earlier shooting, police said.

So even with officers responding to a triple shooting a block away, the gang bangers felt safe enough pulling off another "shootout" a block away less than a hour later.