Remember, every killing is another number above and beyond last year's totals - an increase in the increase we suppose:
A 15-year-old boy was fatally wounded this afternoon steps away from his home on the South Side in the city's Back of the Yards neighborhood.
Jaime Ruvalcaba of the 1900 block of West 47th Street was pronounced dead at 4:50 p.m. at Stroger Hospital, according to a spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner's office.
The medical examiner's office said he was shot in the same block where he leaves, but preliminary reports from police listed him as being shot in the 4600 block of South Wolcott Avenue.