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Woman, 20, shot in the neck on the South Side

By Mitchell Armentrout

A 20-year-old woman was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition after being shot in the neck around 4:30 p.m. Saturday in the 7100 block of South Wabash Avenue in Park Manor on the South Side, according to the police.

The circumstances of the shooting were not immediately known.

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