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A toddler has been killed and a pregnant woman critically injured following a shooting which was streamed live on Facebook.
The two-year-old boy was shot in the head as he travelled in a car in Chicago's West Side on Tuesday afternoon.
His pregnant aunt, who was filming the incident on her mobile phone, was shot in the abdomen.
The male in the car - who is believed to have been the target of the shooting, was shot in the head and also died, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.
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He is believed to have been a known gang member.
The shooting comes after an 11-year-old girl was shot in the head as she sat in a parked car on the city's South Side on Saturday.
Takiya Holmes died in hospital on Tuesday morning, her family confirmed.
She was one of two young girls shot in the head in separate incidents during the weekend as the city struggles to curb gun violence.
Her cousin Andrew Holmes said: "This is a tough one. It is a big, big loss mainly for her mother, great-grandmother and grandmother."
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Police are investigating but no suspects are in custody, officer Jose Estrada of the Chicago Police Department's Office of News Affairs said.
Last year in Chicago, a city of 2.7 million, 762 people were murdered.
The violence has drawn the attention of US President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly criticised the city's inability to quell crime.
Murders in Chicago so far this year total 63, down from 75 for the same period in 2016, but shootings have increased from 300 to 313, Guglielmi said on Tuesday prior to the triple shooting.
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Also on Saturday evening Kanari Gentry Bowers, 12, was hit in the head by gunfire while playing with her friends at Henderson Elementary School, according to police.
Kanari remains in hospital as police search for a suspect.
"This is an example of what we are dealing with, a block by block war that is going unchecked, uninterrupted, with 10-year-olds, 11-year-olds, 12-year-olds being gunned down in the process," Alderman Raymond Lopez told a news conference.
Both girls appear to have been struck by stray bullets, local media reported.