2 arrested after police chase on Chicago's South Side wanted in connection with suburban burglaries
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Two people wanted in connection with suburban residential burglaries were taken into custody following a high-speed police chase along a Chicago expressway Friday afternoon.
Downers Grove police said the suspects were wanted in connection with separate residential burglaries in unincorporated Kane County and Naperville earlier on Friday. Investigators later found them in the parking lot of a White Castle at Addison and Kedzie in Chicago and tried to arrest them.
The suspects then fled in a Nissan Rogue. They struck and injured a suburban task officer. The officer was taken to a local hospital with minor injuries.
The Illinois State Police Aviation Unit said the suspects switched cars at 31st and the Dan Ryan Expressway and got into a Dodge minvan.
Chicago police were seen chasing the minivan along the Dan Ryan shortly after 4 p.m., zigzagging back and forth through traffic. At one point, a squad car collided with the minivan and then a concrete dividing wall on the expressway.
The minivan later exited the Dan Ryan at 71st Street, and stopped outside a nearby high-rise building, where two suspects got out of the vehicle and were taken into custody as several police vehicles surrounded the minivan from both directions.
Police continue to investigate the incident.
As of late Friday, no charges had been announced.