CHICAGO — An hourslong police chase that started in west suburban Lombard and winded through Chicago resulted in two car accidents Wednesday night, police said.
Police were chasing a person of interest in a fatal drug overdose case, according to a Lombard police news release. Lombard police tried to pull the man over at 9:30 p.m., but he drove off and eventually drove into Chicago on the Eisenhower Expressway.
The driver made it into the city at 9:52 p.m. and drove through several neighborhoods, said Officer Ana Pacheco, a Chicago Police spokeswoman.
An hourslong police chase that started in Lombard and winded through Chicago resulted in two car accidents Wednesday night, police said. One car crashed through this building's window. [DNAinfo/Kelly Bauer]
At 10:05 p.m., a Chicago Police car was responding to the chase when it got into an accident with another car at Congress Parkway and Leavitt Street, Pacheco said. Two police officers were taken to Stroger Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and the driver of the of the other car was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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At 10:23 p.m., a State Police car crashed into the suspect's car in the 4200 block of North Ashland Avenue, Pacheco said. The suspect's car hit another person's car, sending that third car crashing through the window of a building's basement apartment.
Two people were taken to Illinois Masonic in good condition with minor cuts after that accident, Pacheco said. The apartment building the car crashed into did not have structural damage, she said.
The suspect's car continued on Ashland, and Chicago Police stopped chasing it at 10:25 p.m., Pacheco said.
One car crashed through this building's window, leaving debris scattered across the sidewalk. [DNAinfo/Kelly Bauer]
Vicky Greene, who lives near the building that was hit by a car, said the neighborhood was safe, but she had learned to "tune out" police and ambulance sirens in the area. She didn't even notice the police chase, she said, but thought it was good that police stopped the chase before there were more injuries.
"When you're in the city, it's so crowded. It's easy for someone who's innocent to get killed. And you don't want that to happen," she said. "There has to come a time where you say, 'OK, this is as far as we're gonna go. We're gonna stop and we'll be on the lookout for him.'
"If they couldn't stop him from Lombard, unless he drove into Lake Michigan, they're probably not gonna stop him by chasing him."
Lombard Police stopped chasing the car at Congress Parkway and Lower Wacker Drive, according to a news release from the department.
Hours later, the car was found abandoned in suburban Bensenville, Lombard Police said. The suspect has not been found.
Anyone with information is asked to call Lombard police at 630-873-4400.
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