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A 23-year-old man was shot several times early Saturday in the 5200 block of North Spaulding on the Northwest Side.

It happened just before 3 a.m. less than a block north of North Park University, according to the police, who said the man was being treated at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center.

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