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Chicago After Dark: 10 shot, high-speed chase with Mustang | Jan. 19, 2018

By Jordan Owen

Welcome to the brand-new morning article #afterdark, a roundup of crime (and more) happenings from around Chicago overnight.

Ten people were shot across Chicago on Thursday, including two who were killed.
A high-speed chase of a carjacked Mustang that lasted nearly 45 minutes early Friday resulted in the arrest of two people in the South Side Gresham neighborhood. (See video here.)

A stolen mustang crashed into another vehicle in the 8700 block of Union. Two people were taken into custody after a nearly hour-long chase. | Justin Jackson/ Sun-Times

A person was taken into custody Thursday night after setting a fire aboard a CTA Red Line train that stopped in the Uptown neighborhood on the North Side.

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