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Man, 32, shot in Englewood

By Matthew Hendrickson

A 32-year-old man was wounded in a shooting Thursday evening in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.

He was shot in the hip at 6:24 p.m. in the 6700 block of South Normal, according to Chicago Police. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.

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FILE - This booking photo provided by the Naperville, Ill., Police Dept. shows Barry Lee Whelpley. Terry Ekl, an attorney for Whelpley, a Minnesota man charged in the stabbing death of a 15-year-old suburban Chicago girl more than half a century ago, wants statements he made at Minnesota police station suppressed. Ekl argued in a recent defense motion the statements should be excluded because they occurred in continuation of a seven-hour interrog

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