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Woman shot after answering door of Albany Park home

By  Jake Wittich
   
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A 29-year-old woman was shot at her home early Saturday in the Albany Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side.

About 12:40 a.m., she answered a knock at the rear porch of her home in the 4600 block of North Monticello, and a male shot her in the abdomen, according to Chicago Police.

She was taken to a hospital, where her condition stabilized, police said.

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