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Marissa Quintero | Cook County sheriff’s office

North Side woman charged with DUI in fatal crash on Kennedy Expy.

SHARE North Side woman charged with DUI in fatal crash on Kennedy Expy.
SHARE North Side woman charged with DUI in fatal crash on Kennedy Expy.

A North Side woman is being held on $300,000 bail, accused of driving drunk and causing a fatal crash last weekend on the Kennedy Expressway on the city’s Northwest Side.

Killed in the crash that happened just before 3 a.m. Sept. 20 on the inbound lanes near Harlem was Tijana Stanojevic, 28,  of the 6100 block of North Artesian.

Marissa Quintero, who turned 31 Saturday, of the 5300 block of North Bowmanville, is charged with aggravated DUI, accused of crashing her Chevrolet Malibu into the back of  Stanojevic’s Volkswagen Beetle, according to the Illinois State Police.


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