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Police Fire Shots After Jeep Rams Squad Car In Albany Park

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Chicago police officers fired shots at a Jeep that slammed into a police officer during an attempted traffic stop Thursday afternoon in the Albany Park neighborhood.

Police said a silver Jeep crashed into a squad car as an officer was getting out of the cruiser, while trying to make a traffic stop near Argyle and Whipple around 4 p.m.

Officers fired shots, but no one was struck by any bullets.

The officer who was trying to get out of the squad car was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Further details were not immediately available.

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