Man fatally shot in South Loop

Marque Banks was found with a gunshot wound to the head in a hallway.

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A man was shot and killed in South Loop.

A man was shot and killed April 9, 2020, in the 2000 block of South Michigan Avenue.

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A man was killed in a shooting Thursday in the South Loop.

Officers responded about 5:30 p.m. to a call of a person shot in the 2000 block of South Michigan Avenue, Chicago police said.

They found 20-year-old Marque Banks in the hallway of a home with a gunshot wound to the head, officials said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Cook County medical examiner’s office said that Banks lived in the neighborhood.

No arrests have been reported. Area Central detectives are conducting a homicide investigation.

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