Boy, 16, in critical condition after being shot on Southwest Side

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A 16-year-old boy was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition after being found shot twice in the chest early Saturday afternoon in an alley in the 7900 block of South Francisco Avenue on the Southwest Side, the police said.

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