News Crime Marquette Park

Man, 30, shot in ankle in Marquette Park

By Thomas Czaja

A 30-year-old man was shot in the ankle Saturday morning on the Southwest Side. | Google Earth

A 30-year-old man was wounded in a shooting Saturday morning in the Marquette Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.

About 3 a.m., the man was in the 2800 block of West Marquette when he heard gunfire and realized he’d been shot in his right ankle, according to Chicago Police.

He took himself to Holy Cross Hospital in good condition, police said.

Area Central detectives were investigating.

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