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Man found shot to death near Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Gold Coast: police

The man was found unresponsive in the 200 block of East Huron Street with multiple gunshot wounds.

By Sun-Times Wire

The man was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the 200 block of East Huron Street.

A man was found shot to death Sunday in the Gold Coast on the Near North Side.

He was found with multiple gunshot wounds about 9:45 a.m. in the 200 block of East Huron Street, Chicago police said.

He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said.

The Cook County medical examiner’s office did not immediately release details about his death.

The circumstances of the shooting remain under investigation by Area Three detectives.

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