16-year-old boy shot in the leg in North Lawndale

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A 16-year-old boy was shot in his upper left leg around 12:40 p.m. Sunday afternoon in the 3600 block of West Roosevelt Road in North Lawndale and taken in serious condition to Mount Sinai Hospital, police said.

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