Violence reported on Pace Bus on Bishop Ford Freeway
There were initial reports that a gunman had opened fire, but it later turned out that may not have been true.
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There were initial reports that a gunman had opened fire, but it later turned out that may not have been true.
Illinois State Police, the Illinois Department of Transportation, and the Chicago Fire Department were at the scene. Kris Habermehl reports from Chopper 2.
Illinois State Police said the pedestrian was hit by a car in the southbound lanes of the Bishop Ford near Sibley Boulevard around 3:40 a.m.
The vehicle, a yellow Corvette, came to a stop in a private lot near Doty and Kensington Avenues.
Gunfire was reported on the Bishop Ford Freeway in the south suburbs Monday afternoon, but no one was injured.
Illinois state police responded to an expressway shooting on the Bishop Ford ramp Friday just before midnight.
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No one was injured in the shooting, but the victim's vehicle might have been damaged by a bullet.
The southbound Bishop Ford Freeway was shut down late Wednesday because of a shooting near 159th Street.
The Bishop Ford Freeway was shut down at 115th Street for a period of time during the Tuesday evening rush after shots were fired.
A 14-year-old boy was wounded and his brother was killed in a shooting near the Bishop Ford Freeway in the Pullman community Friday evening.
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At least two people were injured in a shooting on the Bishop Ford Freeway Sunday night.
A Dolton police officer was involved in an incident in which shots were fired on the Bishop Ford Freeway Wednesday evening.
Three expressway shootings were reported in less than four hours overnight.
A man was shot and killed overnight while driving on the Bishop Ford Freeway. It's the latest of 170 shootings on Chicago expressways this year.
A person ended up on the ramp between Interstate 57 and the Bishop Ford Freeway Monday afternoon after being shot.
A car that was reported carjacked in Chicago ended up crashing after being pursued by Illinois State Police on the Bishop Ford Freeway in the southern suburbs Saturday evening.
Lanes on the northbound Bishop Ford Freeway were expected to be shut down for two hours Thursday afternoon after a semi-trailer truck spilled 19,000 pounds of gravel.
Police were investigating Wednesday after a man said he was shot on the Bishop Ford Freeway in the south suburbs the day before.
A man was shot while driving on the Bishop Ford Freeway near 120th Street Monday night.
The Bishop Ford Freeway was shut down in the south suburbs late Sunday, as a man barricaded himself in a mobile home after police said he shot another man, and then fired at officers.
Two people were shot on the Bishop Ford Freeway on the city's Far South Side early Sunday morning.
The person who was killed in a crash involving an Illinois Department of Transportation help truck on the Bishop Ford Freeway was a 4-year-old boy, Illinois State Police said Thursday.
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