One Killed In Wrong-Way Crash On Eisenhower
A wrong-way crash on the Eisenhower Expressway has left at least one person dead and several others hurt.
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A wrong-way crash on the Eisenhower Expressway has left at least one person dead and several others hurt.
A man was shot while driving through the West Side on the Eisenhower Expressway late Friday.
The men robbed a person Sunday at about 2:50 a.m. near the intersection of Jackson Boulevard and Western Avenue, according to police. Shortly after the robbery, all three entered a vehicle which drove away and went onto the Eisenhower Expressway.
A vehicle rolled over on I-290 near 25th Avenue about 12:50 a.m., according to Illinois State Police.
Protestors were blocking lanes of traffic on the Eisenhower Expressway near Kostner Avenue Saturday afternoon in the latest protest over recent grand jury decisions not to indict white police officers of unarmed black men in Missouri and New York. All lanes are now back open.
At least four vehicles driving on the Eisenhower Expressway have been damaged by shots from a BB gun or pellet gun in the past two days.
Heavy rains have caused major flooding across much of the Chicago area overnight, especially in the southwest suburbs, where at least two school districts were forced to cancel classes at all its schools.
Several inches of rain fell across the Chicago area overnight, particularly on the South and Southwest sides, prompting road closures and CTA delays.
A woman gave birth to a baby girl early Wednesday in a van just off the Eisenhower expressway.
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Parts of the Eisenhower Expressway were closed for more than four hours and part of the CTA's Blue Line was shut down temporarily early Tuesday because of flooding from storms.
A car crash - then a foot chase on the Eisenhower Expressway early Sunday morning just east of First Avenue.
A North Side man was fatally struck by a car Saturday evening after running onto the Eisenhower Expressway in the West Side East Garfield Park neighborhood.
A pedestrian was fatally struck by a car on the Eisenhower Expressway in the Near West Side neighborhood early Sunday.
Road crews will be out on the Eisenhower Expressway on Wednesday to investigate what caused the roadway to flood so badly in west suburban Broadview, forcing authorities to close part of the interstate for more than seven hours.
The Eisenhower Expressway (I-290) is closed in both directions near west suburban Broadview because of flooding, police said Tuesday night.
The crash, which involved the beer truck and a passenger vehicle, occurred about 2:30 a.m. in the inbound lanes of Interstate 290 near Harlem Avenue, according to Illinois State Police.
At least two people were injured in a crash involving a semi truck on the outbound Eisenhower Expressway (I-290) Sunday afternoon on the West Side.
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Loose concrete fell off an overpass and struck a vehicle westbound on the Eisenhower Expressway (I-290) Tuesday afternoon in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.
Aaron I. Moore, 26, was charged with two counts of aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol resulting in death, two counts of aggravated driving under the influence of drugs resulting in death and two counts of leaving the scene of a fatal crash, according to Illinois State Police.
Two women were killed in an early morning crash on the inbound Eisenhower Expressway in west suburban Forest Park on Sunday.
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Illinois State Police said they believe alcohol was a factor in two incidents of wrong-way driving on Chicago expressways overnight.
Police said 20-year-old Miguel Rico was drunk when he drove a Dodge minivan west in the eastbound lanes of the Eisenhower on Saturday, crashing into a car, and killing two women.
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Police said all six victims suffered non-life-threatening injuries, though they did not specify each victim's condition.
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The shooting happened last Thursday as Gorman, 18, was walking with her friends near the pier at Tobey Prinz Beach at Pratt Boulevard to see the Northern Lights.
Two Illinois State University students were among six people wounded in a mass shooting in downstate Normal, Illinois, early Sunday.
Chicago police on Sunday were looking for the driver behind a hit-and-run that left a teenage girl dead in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood.
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Chicago police on Sunday continued to question a person of interest in the shooting that killed Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman in Rogers Park.
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The ages of the victims range from 22 to 57, according to Chicago police.
