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Person fatally shot by police; Morgan Park fire | June 7, 2018

By  Alice Bazerghi
   
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Officers at the scene of a police shooting in the 300 block of East 47th Street that left a man dead. His was one of three deaths that led Pastor Christopher Harris Sr. to cut short a trip to Israel earlier this month and return for their funerals in Chicago. | Mitchell Armentrout / Sun-Times

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