Two Chicago police officers were shot and wounded early Monday while trying to break up a crowd following Fourth of July gatherings, authorities said. The shooting about 1:45 a.m. on the city’s West Side happened less than an hour after a drive-by shooting in Washington Park on the city’s Southside left two people dead and four others wounded. Between Friday night and early Monday morning, 12 people had been fatally shot in Chicago and at least 40 more suffered gunshot wounds, according to department statistics. Monday is considered part of the long holiday weekend, so final statistics won’t be available until Tuesday. At the same time, with the shooting that wounded the officers, the department so far this year has seen 33 of its officers either shot at or shot compared with 22 during the same period last year. One of the officers wounded early Monday was hit in the …