A 14-year-old boy was killed and eight other teenagers were wounded in separate shootings late on a bustling Friday night that saw thousands of people gather in the Loop to kick off the holiday season.

The chaos that unfolded during the so-called teen takeover “set us back as a city, and it evokes fear,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said of the attacks that happened steps away from many of the city’s most iconic tourist destinations, shortly after the annual tree-lighting ceremony in Millennium Park.

A mass shooting happened just outside the Chicago Theatre, and the slaying occurred near Federal Plaza.

“The holiday season is a time when we come together as a city,” Johnson said as detectives investigated Saturday morning. “This is the opposite type of behavior that anybody wants to see. We hav

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