Driver fleeing traffic stop injures officer, 2 others on West Side

SHARE Driver fleeing traffic stop injures officer, 2 others on West Side
chicagopolicecar1.jpg

Sun-Times file photo

Three people, including a Chicago police officer, were injured by a vehicle fleeing a traffic stop Saturday evening in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.

The driver of the vehicle took off from the stop after initially pulling over at 7:30 p.m. in the 4400 block of West Madison Street, police said.

The fleeing vehicle first hit a squad car and injured an officer before crashing a short distance away and injuring two more people, police said. Injuries to all three hurt in the incident were considered minor.

One person was taken into custody, police said.

The Latest
Art
The Art Institute of Chicago, responding to allegations by New York prosecutors, says it’s ‘factually unsupported and wrong’ that Egon Schiele’s ‘Russian War Prisoner’ was looted by Nazis from the original owner’s heirs.
April Perry has instead been appointed to the federal bench. But it’s beyond disgraceful that Vance, a Trump acolyte, used the Senate’s complex rules to block Perry from becoming the first woman in the top federal prosecutor’s job for the Northern District of Illinois.
Bill Skarsgård plays a fighter seeking vengeance as film builds to some ridiculous late bombshells.
“I need to get back to being myself,” the starting pitcher told the Sun-Times, “using my full arsenal and mixing it in and out.”
A window of the Andersonville feminist bookstore displaying a Palestine flag and a sign calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war was shattered early Wednesday. Police are investigating.