CHICAGO (WLS) -- At least 36 people have been shot, five fatally, in shootings across Chicago so far this Labor Day weekend, police said.

The weekend gun violence comes as the Trump administration prepares to potentially deploy the National Guard to the Chicago area.

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A woman was shot and killed in a South Shore apartment on Friday night.

The shooting happened at about 11:56 p.m. in the 7700-block of S. Essex Avenue, according to police.

Police found two women with gunshot wounds inside the apartment.

A 25-year-old woman was shot twice to the abdomen, and once to the left leg. Police said she was taken to University of Chicago Hospital where she died.

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