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Child among 6 hurt in West Side crash

By sarahtr

Six people, including a child, were hurt in a crash Wednesday morning in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side.

The multi-vehicle crash happened in the 1600 block of West Kostner at 11:45 a.m., police News Affairs Officer Thomas Sweeney said.

Five adults – four women and a man — and one child suffered non-life threatening injuries and were taken to Stroger and Mount Sinai hospitals, Sweeney said.

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