Crash on DuSable Lake Shore Drive leaves woman dead
A woman was killed early Sunday in a crash on DuSable Lake Shore Drive near the Stevenson Expressway.
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A woman was killed early Sunday in a crash on DuSable Lake Shore Drive near the Stevenson Expressway.
A Pace bus and three other vehicles were involved in a crash on I-55 in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook early Tuesday.
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All but one lane of the southbound Stevenson Expressway was blocked during the Tuesday afternoon rush, after a semi-trailer truck caught fire.
Roxanne Kovalchuk was heading to work when the boulder came through and shattered into three pieces in the passenger seat, back seat, and trunk of her SUV.
A chunk of falling concrete broke through the windshield of an SUV on Friday afternoon, injuring a driver on the Stevenson Expressway near the Archer Heights neighborhood on the Southwest Side of Chicago.
Bowen Zhang, 29, was charged in the alleged road rage shooting on northbound I-55 on Wednesday, Illinois State Police said.
The ATV driver was going northbound in the southbound lanes near Black Road when the driver crashed into another car.
State police said troopers tried to safely stop the operator when it became involved in a crash with a car on I-55 southbound north of Black Road.
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Hodgkins police said lanes are open in both directions, but expect slower traffic times.
Video from the scene showed the car fully engulfed in flames with smoke billowing from it in the outbound lanes near Kedzie Avenue around 3 a.m.
Illinois State Police said the semi truck rolled over on County Line Road just after 6 a.m. ISP said the crash caused a low-level Hazmat spill that has been contained.
Ramps from both directors of the Dan Ryan feed and merge onto the outbound Stevenson, making for traffic jams in multiple directions.
Only one lane was open at 5 p.m. on the outbound Stevenson (I-55) at Halsted Street, just past the Dan Ryan Expressway (I-90/94) merge. Kris Habermehl reports from CBS Skywatch.
Illinois State Police said, around 9:15 a.m., a semi-tractor trailer overturned in the northbound lanes of Interstate 55 near Bolingbrook.
The shooting happened in the inbound lanes of the expressway near Central Avenue around 5:30 p.m.
Investigators were seen walking along the expressway with a flashlight looking for evidence late Wednesday.
Angel Reyes, 24, of Lyons, was arrested by the ISP Division of Criminal Investigation Zone 1 and charged with one count of first-degree murder.
The crash, which left a motorcyclist with severe injuries, took place around 2 a.m.
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Video showed the car involved in the crash wrapped around a pole.
One victim was taken to an area hospital with injuries, though police did not specify what those injuries were.
Around 6:15 Wednesday night. Illinois State Police said people in two cars were shooting at each other.
The shooting disrupted traffic Wednesday night, and the disruption continued as late as 10 p.m. Jermont Terry reports.
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