The pain of losing a child never goes away. Today, we lost more young people to the gun violence epidemic: a 17-year-old in Humboldt Park and a 1-year-old in Englewood. As a mother, I am tired of the funerals. I am tired of burying our children.

Father Mike Pfleger says that with every death of a child, we are burying our future. He's right and we must do better. It's on all of us. It's on all of us to find the courage to be a part of the solution.

It's on all of us to double down on our all-hands-on-deck public safety efforts with police officers, street outreach teams, trauma support workers, community and faith-based partners. We must ask ourselves: "What are we each doing to make this a season of bounty, not tragedy?"

We all have a role in this fight for the safety of our communities. I ask that anyone with information on these incidents please come forward or submit a tip anonymously at http://cpdtip.com .