(Image source from: Chicago Sun-Times)

Chicago saw a new burst of blood-filled hostility this weekend, with a series of shootings that killed at least one woman and wounded nearly 27.

However, the numbers were behind from the past weekend when a burst of gun violence left at least 11 people dead and about 70 wounded.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported that the city's initial deadly shooting of the weekend killed a 29-year-old woman on Friday afternoon, police said. Investigators said she was getting an order of protection against a man, who got angry and returned to shoot her in the back. She later died at University of Chicago Hospital from her injuries.

Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, after last weekend's frustratingly high violence, said 400 additional officers already were patrolling areas on the West and South Sides where most of the shootings unfolded. Another 200 were said to be added to affected neighborhoods by this weekend.

Still, many activists have said enough is enough, and have called for Mayor Rahm Emanuel to step aside.

"All of us know that this is not Chicago, what we saw," Emanuel, a Democrat, said after last weekend's shootings. "We are better than what we saw."

"We have ordered a series of strategic deployments aimed at keeping our community safe," Johnson said Tuesday. "These additional deployments will continue to supplement existing manpower."

"We are taking resources from other areas of the city," Johnson added. "These are discretionary resources, so we are not taking any manpower from a particular district and relocating them; we're taking manpower from units that do other things."

Representative Danny K. Davis, D-Ill., said the crime environment in Chicago has been years in the making, due to neglect.

"People not having enough space. People not having enough food. People not getting the type of education that they need to get," Davis said. "People who aren't sure of what the next day is going to bring them. People who've lost hope, who've given up on their government."

Several politicians highlighted the value of family and community leaders in the combat to curb the violence.

Alderman Walter Burnett Jr. condemned drugs and its profits as "blood money," and said parents should not look away when their children come home with goods the adults know they didn't give them the money to buy.

"There are too many blind eyes in our community," Burnett said.

By Sowmya Sangam