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Live blog: Police chase and standoff on Lake Shore Drive

By Sun-Times Wire

Heavily armed police have surrounded a four-door car with tinted windows on Lake Shore Drive just north of Fullerton and are demanding the man inside — a suspected armed fugitive wanted for murder — to show his hands and surrender.

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