Two injured when man drives car into Pride Parade

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The Chicago Gay Pride Parade from the roof of the Center on Halsted’s green roof garden Sunday June 28, 2015. | James Foster / for Sun-Times Media

Two people were injured during the 46th Annual Chicago Pride Parade when a 60-year-old man drove his car into the parade route Sunday afternoon in the Lake View neighborhood on the North Side.

About 2:50 p.m., the man’s vehicle crashed into the parade route in the 3700 block of North Halsted, police said.

A man and woman were struck and taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, police said. As of early Monday, they both had been treated and released.

The 60-year-old was taken to Swedish Covenant Hospital for evaluation and was eventually released without charges, police said.

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