Deadly Shooting On I-57 Near Blue Island
A man was shot to death in a car on Interstate 57 Wednesday night near south suburban Blue Island.
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A man was shot to death in a car on Interstate 57 Wednesday night near south suburban Blue Island.
Six people were shot across Chicago from about midnight into early Friday, including four wounded in separate attacks within 25 minutes of each other.
Illinois State Police shut down all northbound lanes of I-57 for approximately three hours overnight, after a man was shot on the expressway in the Morgan Park neighborhood.
ne person is recovering from a drive-by shooting that shutdown a portion of the I-57 expressway early Saturday morning.
A motorcyclist was killed and two other people were injured in a crash on I-57 late Saturday on the Far South Side, police said.
A man was shot early Saturday while driving on I-57 on the South Side.
Alcohol was a factor in a single-vehicle rollover crash that injured two people on Interstate 57 in south suburban Country Club Hills late Sunday, police said
Wesley Peak, 36, was driving nort on I-57 when he was involved in a single vehicle traffic crash, officials said.
Police said the driver was heading south on I-57 when his car left the road near 159th Street, and hit an unoccupied construction truck – a pickup truck with a cherry picker mounted on the back.
Illinois State Police said a white Chevy sedan headed south on I-57 rear-ended a Dodge Caravan near U.S. Route 30 around 2:15 a.m.
A man in his 70s died after the dump truck he was driving rolled over Saturday morning in the south suburbs.
About 6:30 p.m., the team was headed back to Carbondale after finishing their game against the Illinois State University Redbirds in Normal, when the driver of the team bus pulled over on Interstate 57 due to poor visibility
The jack-knifed truck was first reported about 2:25 a.m. near Wentworth Avenue.
The crash occurred about 9:30 p.m. when a minivan hit a guardrail and rolled over in the southbound lanes of I-57 near 111th Street about 9:30 p.m.
One man was killed and another man was hurt in a rollover crash on Interstate 57 on the Far South Side early Sunday, State Police said.
Illinois State Troopers will be using a mobile speed camera van on I-57 on Tuesday to enforce work zone speed limits.
The two men were inside a white Chevy Tahoe with flashing lights in the grill when they pulled over a motorist about 12:30 p.m. in the southbound lanes of I-57 at Lincoln Highway.
Seven of the children – who range in age from 3 to 14 – were not wearing seat belts, or in other child restraints.
A street vendor was shot and killed early Tuesday at a gas station near an exit ramp from Interstate 57 in the Washington Heights neighborhood.
The vehicle slowed down after the driver saw the trooper, but the radar had already caught him going more than double the speed limit.
An Illinois State Police trooper helped save a University of Illinois student's life during the snowstorm in central Illinois on Monday, when he and two other men lifted a car off the young man after he'd been hit by a car along I-57.
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