This year, the CPD devised a new, much tougher plan to deal with any rowdy behavior and it appeared to work much better. By midnight, the call volume had returned to about normal. There were many isolated incidents. The Chicago Police Department's 15th District on the West Side was kept very busy. There were many, many shots fired in celebration of the Bulls victory.
Police believe, however, that seven of the ten victims shot had no connection to the celebration.
In other words, they were not victims of accidental shootings. One of the shootings happened at 2211 CDT in the 7th Police District at 6543 South Sangamon Street on Chicago's South Side. Another happened at 2300 CDT on the West Side at Cicero Avenue and Washington Street in the 15th District. After leaving the basketball game, one woman was shot twice in the face by errant gunfire while she was driving home on South California Avenue. She was taken to Mount Sinai Medical Center.