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2 shot in Brighton Park

By Tom Schuba

Two people were wounded in a shooting Friday night in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.

At 8:24 p.m., a 20-year-old man suffered a graze wound to his chest, and a 25-year-old woman was grazed in her neck in the 2900 block of West 40th Street, according to Chicago Police.

They both declined medical treatment, police said.

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