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Chicago After Dark: Drive-by shooting, Aurora school threat | Feb. 23, 2018

By Alice Bazerghi

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

A man was wounded Thursday evening in a Heart of Chicago neighborhood drive-by shooting on the South Side.
A message posted to social media Thursday night threatening a shooting at an Aurora high school was “not credible,” according to police in the western suburb.
A person was injured in a fire late Thursday at an apartment building in west suburban St. Charles.
A man took himself to Mount Sinai Hospital early Friday after being shot in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
At about 2 a.m., a person was shot at a gas station early Friday in south suburban Harvey.

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