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18-year-old in serious condition after South Chicago shooting

By  Mitchell Armentrout
   
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An 18-year-old man was shot in the abdomen in a South Chicago neighborhood drive-by attack late Friday.

About 11:20 p.m., he was walking in the 8800 block of South Escanaba when someone in a Blue Ford Focus opened fire, according to Chicago Police.

The man was taken in serious condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, police said.

Track all of the city’s shootings over Thanksgiving weekend here.

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