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17-year-old boy shot in back in Lawndale

By  Jake Wittich
   
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A 17-year-old boy shot Monday night in the Lawndale neighborhood on the Southwest Side.

At 9:19 p.m., he was walking on the sidewalk in the 4100 block of West 16th Street when someone shot him in the back from a black sedan, according to Chicago Police.

The boy took himself to Mount Sinai Hospital, where his condition stabilized, police said.

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