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Man shot while driving on Eisenhower; South Shore shooting | March 9, 2018

By Alice Bazerghi

Officers respond to a shooting early Friday in the 7200 block of South East End that left a 19-year-old man wounded. | Justin Jackson/Sun-Times

Welcome to our morning article rounding up crime (and more) happenings from around Chicago overnight.

A man was wounded Thursday night in a shooting on the Eisenhower Expressway.
Around midnight, a man was shot while driving in the South Shore neighborhood.
A 16-year-old boy was shot dead Thursday evening in the West Side Austin neighborhood.

Traffic was halted after a man was shot Thursday night while traveling in the westbound lanes of the Eisenhower Expressway. | Justin Jackson/Sun-Times

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