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Man walks into Swedish Covenant Hospital with gunshot wound

By Jake Wittich

A man walked into Swedish Covenant Hospital on Tuesday evening claiming he had been shot in the hand in the Kilbourn Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side.

He told investigators he had been shot about 5:10 p.m. in the 3500 block of North Milwaukee, according to Chicago Police.

Additional details were not available.

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