1 Killed, 9 Wounded In Chicago Shootings Wednesday
Kahari Stovall, 16, was fatally shot just after 1 p.m. in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side.
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Kahari Stovall, 16, was fatally shot just after 1 p.m. in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side.
The chain-reaction wreck started about 10:30 p.m. on Interstate 90/94 between North Avenue and Division, state police said. At least seven people were taken to hospitals with minor injuries, but their ages and genders were not immediately known.
The crash between a truck and a minivan happened at 1:37 a.m. in the outbound lanes of I-90/94 near the Hubbard Street overpass, according to Illinois State Police.
State police say a north suburban man fired a gun into the air while he was driving on the Kennedy Expressway during the Thursday evening rush while two children sat in the back seat.
An SUV rolled over about 2:15 a.m. in the outbound lanes of I-90/94 near North Avenue, according to Illinois State Police.
The single-vehicle crash happened about 5 a.m. in the inbound lanes of I-90/94 near Kimball Avenue, according to Illinois State Police.
The latest homicide happened Sunday night in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
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Two people were fatally shot on the Kennedy Expressway early Sunday morning.
A four-vehicle crash during Friday's morning rush shut down all lanes of the inbound Kennedy Expressway near Harlem Avenue on the Northwest Side, and left one person dead and another injured.
A multi-car accident has brought traffic to a near standstill during rush hour on the Kennedy Expressway.
All lanes have been reopened after a semi crashed into a wall early Thursday on the Kennedy Expressway on the Northwest Side.
The two-vehicle crash happened about 12:30 a.m. on I-90/94 near Addison, according to Illinois State Police.
A 28-year-old woman has been charged with driving under the influence after she crashed into the back of an Illinois State Police trooper's vehicle who was in the middle of a traffic stop early Sunday on the Kennedy Expressway near Bucktown on the North Side.
The motorcycle was speeding in the southbound lanes of I-90/94 near Montrose Avenue at 4:20 a.m. when the cyclist lost control and the bike struck a wall, according to Illinois State Police Trooper David Roman.
Work began this past weekend to shift traffic between Illinois Route 31 and Illinois Route 25 onto the new Fox River Bridge and shift westbound traffic between Beverly Road and Illinois Route 25 onto new pavement, according to a statement from the Illinois Tollway.
Anyone who has used the Kennedy Expressway at rush hour knows how bad the traffic can be, so it should come as no big surprise that it has been ranked as the worst bottleneck in the country.
A new traffic configuration on the outbound Eisenhower Expressway west of the Kennedy Expressway will start Friday as part of a project to reconstruct the Jane Byrne Interchange.
A 16-year-old boy was shot late Friday while he was in a vehicle on an exit ramp of the Kennedy Expressway in the Northwest Side Bucktown neighborhood.
The single-vehicle crash happened at 2:04 a.m. in the outbound lanes of the Kennedy (I-90/94) near Addison Street, according to Illinois State Police.
Around 5:10 a.m., someone shot a car headed west on the Kennedy near Sayre Avenue, police said. The driver of the car was not injured, and only the vehicle was struck.
IDOT warns motorists to expect delays when driving through the interchange during the weekends of Aug 21-23, Aug 28-30, Sept. 25-27 and Oct. 16-18.
A person was killed and two others were seriously injured in a crash involving a semi-truck on the Kennedy Expressway near the Loop early Wednesday, shutting down most of the inbound side of the expressway.
Three people suffered minor injuries early Friday, when someone in another vehicle shot up their car on the Dan Ryan Expressway, the 19th shooting so far this year on Chicago area expressways, matching last year's total for the entire year.
The man, described only as an adult, was driving northbound on the Kennedy (I-90/94) near Belmont about 11 p.m. when his vehicle struck a light pole, then rolled over, Illinois State Police said.
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