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<p>A toddler and man died, and at least 38 others were wounded, in Memorial Day weekend shootings in Chicago in the least deadly holiday weekend in 16 years.</p><p>Despite the fatalities — authorities said the one involving a toddler was an accidental suicide — more people were wounded over the holiday weekend than in 2025, when 25 people were shot in the city’s <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2025/05/27/chicago-memorial-day-weekend-violence-drop" target="_blank" >least violent Memorial Day weekend since 2010</a>.</p><p>Still, gun violence remains lower than the pandemic-era peak. In 2021, during the same holiday period, the city saw 65 shooting victims, including 15 deaths.</p><p>Between 2022-2024, each year's holiday weekend had between nine and 12 people shot and killed, according to city data. Each year's total shooting victims ranged from nearly 40 to nearly 50.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center><div class="Enhancement-item"> <div class="ExternalContent-wrapper" data-embed> <iframe src="https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/29138445/embed" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" height="575" width="700" style="width:100%;" title="Interactive or visual content"></iframe> </div> </div></div><p>The Sun-Times counted holiday weekend shootings between 5 p.m.