Driver killed in wrong-way crash on Dan Ryan Expressway
Illinois State Police said around 4:45 a.m., troopers responded to multiple calls of a wrong-way driver on I-94 traveling southbound in the northbound lanes near Roosevelt.
Illinois State Police said around 4:45 a.m., troopers responded to multiple calls of a wrong-way driver on I-94 traveling southbound in the northbound lanes near Roosevelt.
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The Fire Department said the accident happened around 9 p.m. on the southbound Dan Ryan just south of the junction with the Stevenson Expressway, around 2500 South.
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The man who was shot was crossing the street in the crosswalk and was not the intended target, police said.
The shooting happened at 69th Street and the Dan Ryan Expressway.
The troopers eventually caught up to the man, and he was apprehended.
It happened just before 5:30 a.m. Monday on the southbound Dan Ryan Expressway at Garfield Boulevard.
The semi is blocking the inbound Chinatown feeder ramp.
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The crash happened around 1:15 a.m. in the southbound lanes at Taylor Street.
Police said the victim pulled over on the Dan Ryan Expressway at 31st Street to report the shooting.
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The accident happened in the northbound local lanes of the Dan Ryan at 35th Street.
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At one point, two of the three northbound lanes of the Dan Ryan were shut down while emergency crews and tow trucks got to work. CBS 2's Noel Brennan reports.
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