20-year-old man killed a block from home in Cragin shooting

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A man was shot to death Saturday afternoon in the Northwest Side Cragin neighborhood.

Isiah Hope High, 20, was riding a bicycle at 1:17 p.m. in the 2600 block of North Long when someone in a minivan fired shots, striking him in the chest, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.

He was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 2:02 p.m., authorities said. He lived a block from where he was shot.

Area North detectives were investigating.

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Luke Wilusz

Chicago Sun-TimesFormer Sun-Times wire reporter

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