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Around 5:30 a.m. the officer was confronted by multiple gunmen in the 10800 block of South Campbell Avenue and a shootout ensued, Chicago police said. No injuries were reported.
Preliminary information indicates the person may have already been lying in the road before he was struck, officials said.
The Chicago Department of Water Management said tests for E. coli and other harmful bacteria showed tap water is safe to drink.
Thousands of residents are without drinkable water. Many lined up Wednesday at Ridge Park for bottled water handed out by the city.
Two cars pulled over to the side of the expressway about 10 p.m. Monday near 111th Street after a collision on I-57. Tayvon Green-Powe, 25, allegedly stepped out of one car and shot and wounded another motorist.
Two cars crashed on Interstate 57 near 111th Street and someone fired shots, police said.
Morgan Park High School trumpeters riff on the most popular brass instrument.
A 57-year-old man was standing in the living room of a home in the 11400 block of South Elizabeth Street about 8:20 p.m. Monday when shots were fired through the front window. He was hit in the left arm, police said.
A woman in the other vehicle involved in the crash declined medical attention.
The 46th annual parade along Western Avenue will be held March 17.
The tents are expected to be completed in a matter of days and will house 500 migrants at first.
The Chicago City Council put off a vote on accepting donated land at 115th and Halsted that would be the site of a migrant tent camp. Also delayed was a vote on whether to put a binding referendum on the March ballot to raise the real estate transfer tax to fund programs to reduce homelessness.
Under pressure to get migrants off the floors of police stations and airports, the committee acted over the objections of South Side Ald. Ronnie Mosley (21st).
Ald. Ronnie Mosley led a meeting about a potential site at 115th and Halsted in Morgan Park Wednesday.
As James Coles left his mother’s Morgan Park home to see a friend, Jacqueline Coles grabbed him by the wrist and told him to be careful. Hours later, she stood outside Christ Medical Center as doctors tried in vain to save him.
Witnesses said several shots were fired outside of Mount Carmel after the Caravan beat Morgan Park. One victim was left in critical condition.
The shooting happened around 5:30 p.m. near 111th Street and Racine Avenue.
Police said they recovered the DNA from one of the victims, but so far the teen has been charged only with having a loaded gun when officers stopped him earlier this week.
The children were wounded in neighborhoods on the South Side that bore the brunt of shootings over the weekend and that have recorded more homicides than this time a year ago.