Man Shot On Dan Ryan Expressway Ramp
Police searched the area and said they found no evidence.
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Police searched the area and said they found no evidence.
The victim exited the expressway and crashed at 87th and Wentworth, where authorities responded, police said.
The crash happened about 12:35 a.m. in the inbound lanes of I-90/94 near 95th Street, according to Illinois State Police.
At 11:24 p.m., the 26-year-old was driving north on I-90/94 between 83rd and 85th streets when he heard gunfire and realized he'd been shot, according to Illinois State Police.
A vehicle was shot on the Dan Ryan Expressway late Sunday night, prompting police to shut down the express lanes for a few hours.
Police said the driver and passenger of a Chevy sedan were shot around midnight as they were headed north near 71st Street.
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Seven people, including three children, were injured in a crash Sunday afternoon on the Dan Ryan Expressway near the South Side Chatham neighborhood.
Illinois State Police said a bus with 45 people on board collided with an SUV around 3:30 p.m. in the southbound lanes near 63rd Street.
A 68-year-old truck driver was headed north on the Dan Ryan between 95th Street and 87th Street when he was shot through the driver's side window shortly before midnight. A bullet struck him in the face.
After darting in and out of traffic on the Dan Ryan Expressway during the morning rush, a man took a rather strange approach in his effort to get away from Illinois State Police and IDOT Minutemen: he dropped his pants and tried to run away.
A call of shots fired late Thursday in the express lanes of the Dan Ryan Expressway (I-94) shut down southbound traffic for about three hours overnight, according to Illinois State Police.
Shots were fired about 1:45 a.m. and the vehicle was struck while traveling in the outbound lanes near Garfield Boulevard, according to Illinois State Police.
The single-vehicle crash happened about 1:40 a.m. in the inbound lanes of the Dan Ryan near 87th Street, according to Illinois State Police.
Eight people, including four kids, were injured following a five-vehicle accident on the Dan Ryan Expressway Sunday afternoon.
Students from Chicago State University shut down three Chicago expressways on Thursday, when they marched onto the Dan Ryan to protest the impact the state's budget impasse has had on their school.
Illinois State Police shut down the outbound lanes of the expressway for more than an hour while they investigated and searched for evidence.
The fatal shooting happened at 10:25 p.m. the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side. A 17-year-old boy was in the 3100 block of West 41st Place when a white SUV drove by and someone inside fired shots.
The male, whose age was not immediately known, was in a vehicle on southbound I-94 near 75th Street at 12:10 a.m. when he suffered a graze wound to the shoulder, according to Illinois State Police.
Illinois State Police said the SUV involved in a fiery fatal crash on the Dan Ryan Expressway earlier this week was going more than 110 miles per hour.
The single-vehicle crash happened at 11:22 p.m. on the Chinatown feeder ramp from the inbound Dan Ryan, according to Illinois State Police.
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The semi jackknifed on inbound I-94 near 63rd Street about 3:15 a.m., according to Illinois State Police. The driver suffered "minor injuries" but was not taken to a hospital.
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