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Chicago After Dark: Lake Shore Drive shooting, Old Town robbery | Jan. 22, 2018

By Jordan Owen

Welcome to the brand-new morning article #afterdark, a roundup of crime (and more) happenings from around Chicago overnight.

Six people were killed and 22 others were wounded, including a 5-year-old girl, in shootings across Chicago over the weekend.
Early Monday, a man was shot on Lake Shore Drive in the Gold Coast.

Chicago Police officers investigate the scene of a shooting in the northbound lanes of the 800 block of North Lakeshore Drive. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times

A 28-year-old man was shot to death early Monday in the West Lawn neighborhood on the Southwest Side, police said.

A man was shot to death early Monday in the West Lawn neighborhood on the Southwest Side, police said. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times

An 18-year-old woman was shot and critically wounded about a block away from Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson’s home in the South Side Bridgeport neighborhood Sunday night.
Two people were robbed at gunpoint Sunday night in the Old Town Triangle on the North Side.

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