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Crime & Mayhem

Lanes Reopened After Shooting on Outbound Kennedy

By Alex Nitkin | August 17, 2015 8:44am | Updated on August 17, 2015 9:43am
Shots were fired on the outbound Kennedy Expressway Monday morning, according to local media.
Shots were fired on the outbound Kennedy Expressway Monday morning, according to local media.
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IRVING PARK — Lanes reopened early Monday on the outbound Kennedy Expressway after a shooting that occurred there around dawn, state police said.

Lanes were closed for about three hours after shots were fired from a car around 5:15 a.m., according to Clare Pfotenhour, an Illinois State Police spokeswoman. No one was hurt in the shooting but the incident caused a morning rush nightmare.

In a recent Sun-Times story about shootings on area highways, crime reporter Frank Main wrote that there were six shootings in 2010, 18 last year and 25 so far this year.

Most are gang-related: gang members follow their enemies onto the expressways so they can fire and flee faster, police say. State police say they have beefed up staffing.

 

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