Boy, woman wounded in Heart of Chicago shooting

They were standing on a sidewalk when a dark-colored vehicle approached them and someone inside fired shots.

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A woman and teenage boy were wounded in a drive-by shooting Thursday in the Heart of Chicago on the Lower West Side.

They were standing on a sidewalk about 8:15 p.m. in the 2000 block of West 23rd Street when a dark-colored vehicle approached them and someone inside fired shots, Chicago police said.

The boy, 16, was shot in the upper back and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition, police said.

The woman, 36, was struck in the thigh and hand. Her condition was stabilized at Stroger Hospital.

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