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Third suspect still sought in fatal shooting of Chicago police officerSophie Sherryon August 8, 2021 at 3:15 pm

The search continued Sunday morning for the third suspect in the fatal shooting of a Chicago police officer and the wounding of another the night before.

Chicago Police Department Supt. David Brown is scheduled to speak to reporters Sunday morning to update them on the incident.

The wounded officer remained at University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was “fighting for his very life” in critical condition, according to First Deputy Eric Carter who talked to reporters outside the hospital early Sunday.

Both officers were shot during a traffic stop shortly after 9 p.m. at 63rd Street and Bell Avenue in West Englewood. They returned fire, hitting at least one suspect, police said.

The other officer, a woman, also had been taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

A Chicago police officer rubs his eyes while standing in line with other officers outside the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office right before a procession for a Chicago police officer who was shot and killed earlier during a traffic stop at 63rd and Bell, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021. — Chicago police officers gathered outside the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office early Sunday to await the arrival of the body of a fellow officer killed in the line of duty Saturday night.

“We ask the city of Chicago to pray for both officers, their families and their fellow officers who are struggling with the facts of this,” Carter said. “It’s just another example of how the Chicago Police Department and these officers put their lives above that of others to protect this city day in, day out.”

With him was Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who said “obviously our hearts ache for the loss of life.”

Lightfoot said the officer who died was “very young on the job, but incredibly enthusiastic to do the work.”

“We must remind ourselves every day that our officers are fearless in the face of danger,” she said. “It’s a very sad and tragic day for our city.”

Both officers were part of CPD’s Community Safety Team, created last year. The unit is intended to help forge stronger community ties on the South and West Sides. It was started with about 450 officers, and 200 more were added last September.

Brown had been out of town Saturday to finalize details of his mother’s funeral, but released a statement.

“The Chicago Police Department has lost one of our own in an incomprehensible act of violence,” Brown said. “These officers put the safety and lives of others above their own, serving with courage and honor despite knowing the cost.”

Two suspects were taken into custody shortly after the shooting, according to police communications from the scene. The one who was wounded was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. His condition was not known.

A third suspect, a woman, was being sought by police late Saturday. At least least one weapon was recovered at the scene, Carter said.

Police declined to release more information about the circumstances of the shooting, saying more information would be available later Sunday as detectives continued to investigate.

The incident was part of a violent night in Chicago, which also saw two mass shootings in Gresham and several triple shootings. In all, at least 45 people were shot between 7 p.m. Saturday and 10

Chicago police work the scene where two police officers where shot, one fatally, during a traffic stop in the 6300 block of South Bell in the West Englewood neighborhood, Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021. — Chicago police work the scene where two police officers where shot, one fatally, during a traffic stop in the 6300 block of South Bell Avenue in West Englewood Saturday night.

Some of the first police calls from the scene described one officer being shot.

“Officer down,” an officer radioed around 9:10 p.m.

“I got an officer down,” a police dispatcher repeats. “6-3 and Bell, officer down, officer down, shot twice, shot at police, officer down.

“Stay off my air, stay off my air,” the dispatcher continues, asking for no unnecessary calls on the channel. “Everybody stay off the air, I got an officer down, 6-3 and Bell, start rolling.

An officer is heard yelling, in apparent distress, and the dispatcher says, “Give me two ambulances, two ambulances needed for two officers down, two officers down … Get those officers wrapped up going to 6-3 and Bell. I want a perimeter set up three blocks, north south, east, west.”

About a block from the shooting, neighbors looked out cautiously from their front yards on what one resident said was a “quiet block.”

“Be careful, they’re still looking for someone,” a woman warned a neighbor as she walked by.

Dozens of officers could be seen patrolling the neighborhood and blocking streets in the area while a police helicopter flew overhead.

Officers tied blue ribbons to trees shortly before midnight near the medical examiner’s office in preparation for a procession to bring the officer who died to the morgue.

A Chicago police procession for a police officer who was shot and killed earlier during a traffic stop at 63rd and Bell drives by the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021. — A Chicago police procession early Sunday near the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office for a police officer who was shot and killed earlier during a traffic stop at 63rd Street and Bell Avenue.

Outside the medical center, a large crowd of police officers gathered outside an ambulance bay. They included city, county and state police officials and supporters.

Some in the crowd held a group prayer and others hugged each other and engaged in hushed conversation. Water bottles were passed out by police personnel wearing jackets that read “Peer Support.”

The last Chicago Police officers who died in the line of duty were Conrad Gary and Eduardo Marmolejo, who were chasing a man with a gun on the Far South Side when they were struck by a train and killed in December of 2018.

The last officer shot to death in the line of duty was Samuel Jimenez, who was killed just a month earlier while responding to a shooting at Mercy Hospital. Three other people died, including the gunman.

Contributing: Mohammad Samra

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Chicago Bears: 3 offensive tackles to sign with injury problems mountingRyan Heckmanon August 8, 2021 at 2:30 pm

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Training camp has not been kind to the Chicago Bears thus far.

The Bears came into this year’s camp with plenty of new faces, and some of the most significant battles would feature them. It starts up front on the offensive line, where the Bears came into training camp without their two starting tackles from last year.

After letting go of Charles Leno and Bobby Massie, the Bears put together a completely new plan of attack at tackle. They drafted rookie Teven Jenkins in the second round, along with Larry Borom in the fifth round.

A pair of rookie tackles joined Germain Ifedi, Elijah Wilkinson and Lachavious Simmons as the top five tackles on the roster. However, all five of them are currently not participating for one reason or another.

Teven Jenkins (back) and Germain Ifedi (hip flexor) have missed the first eight practices of training camp.

James Daniels (quad) remains out.

Elijah Wilkinson (reserve/COVID-19 list) has missed the past three.

Larry Borom and Lachavious Simmons are both in concussion protocol.

— Dan Wiederer (@danwiederer) August 6, 2021

The most concerning of all five is definitely Jenkins, who has yet to participate in training camp with a back injury. As time goes on, we are starting to get more leery about Jenkins’ status and ultimately his availability for Week 1 could be up in the air.

One healthy lineman has shown his versatility and could end up playing either tackle or guard, and that’s former undrafted Notre Dame lineman Alex Bars. However, the Bears may need more help than just Bars.

Chicago did sign undrafted guard Gage Cervenka, formerly of Clemson. Cervenka is more of an interior lineman, though, and the Bears’ issues at tackle remain the largest concern at the moment.

If Chicago wanted to address those issues by bringing in another free agent, there are some veterans available. A few, in particular, would be the best fits right now and could even push for starting time next to Jenkins — or in place of him, should his injury continue to linger.

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2 wounded — including 16-year-old boy — in Little Village shootingSun-Times Wireon August 8, 2021 at 11:42 am

Two people — including a 16-year-old — were shot and wounded Sunday in Little Village on the West Side.

The two males, 16 and 25, were standing outside just before midnight in the 3300 block of West 25th Street when someone opened fire, Chicago Police said.

The 16-year-old was shot twice in his abdomen, and the 25-year-old suffered six gunshot wounds throughout his body, police said.

Both were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where their conditions were stabilized, police said.

One of the victims believed to have seen the shooter open fire from a moving vehicle, police said.

No one was in custody.

2 wounded — including 16-year-old boy — in Little Village shootingSun-Times Wireon August 8, 2021 at 11:42 am Read More »

17-year-old wounded in Roseland shootingSun-Times Wireon August 8, 2021 at 11:25 am

A 17-year-old boy was shot and wounded Sunday in Roseland on the Far South Side.

The boy was outside in the 11300 block South Prairie Avenue when he heard gunfire, Chicago Police said.

He was shot in the arm and leg and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where his condition was stabilized, police said.

No one was in custody.

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2 mass shootings, multiple triple shootings, 2 CPD officers shot in violent night across ChicagoSun-Times Wireon August 8, 2021 at 11:11 am

At least 45 people have been shot — five fatally, including a Chicago police officer — since 7 p.m. Saturday across Chicago.

So far this month, 155 people have been shot, 23 fatally, in gun violence across the city, according to Chicago Sun-Times data.

Around 2:05 a.m., a 24-year old man opened fire after getting into a verbal fight with another man, 37, at a lounge in the 1800 block of West 87th Street in Gresham on the Far South Side, Chicago Police said.

The 37-year-old was shot twice in the neck and three times in the back and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where he died to his injuries, police said.

The offender was shot eight times throughout his body and was also taken to Christ where he was listed in critical condition, according to police.

At least five others who were at the lounge were also shot, police said.

A man, 38, was shot once in the abdomen and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where he was listed in critical condition, police said.

A 56-year-old man was shot once in his elbow and a 33-year-old in his upper body, police said.

Both were taken to Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park where their conditions were stabilized, according to police.

A man, 23 was grazed in his face and a 37-year-old woman was shot in her back, police said.

Both were taken to the University of Chicago where their conditions were stabilized, police said.

About an hour earlier, a gunman opened fire following an altercation with two male security guards who denied him entry to a club about two miles away in the 8300 block of South Halsted Street, police said.

One of the guards, 40, was shot multiple times in his body and the other guard, 42, in the back twice and in his thigh, police said. Both were taken to Christ where the 40-year-old guard was listed in critical condition and the 42-year-old in serious condition, police said.

At least three others who were standing near the altercation were also shot, police said.

Two males, whose ages were unknown, were each shot once in the leg and self-transported to Little Company of Mary for treatment, police said. Their conditions were unknown, police said.

A man, 21, was shot in his chin and was taken to the University of Chicago where his condition was stabilized, police said.

A Chicago police officer was killed and another was seriously wounded in a shooting on the South Side, officials said.

The officers were shot during a traffic stop shortly after 9 p.m. at 63rd Street and Bell Avenue and returned fire, hitting at least one suspect, police said.

Both officers were taken to University of Chicago, where one of them — a woman — was pronounced dead, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The other officer was “fighting for his very life” in critical condition, according to First Deputy Eric Carter who talked to reporters outside the hospital early Sunday.

Shortly after 7 p.m., Saturday, four men were wounded in a shooting on the Near West Side that left three of them in critical condition, police said.

The group was standing near a park in the 200 block of South Maplewood Street when someone fired shots from a vehicle, police said.

Three of the men, ages 23, 27 and 28, were struck multiple times and taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, police said. A 20-year-old man was struck in the ankle and taken to the same hospital in good condition, police said.

Just before 12:25 a.m., Sunday, three people were shot while at a gathering outside in the 11400 block of South Throop Street in Morgan Park on the Far South Side, police said.

A man, 39, was shot in his lower back and woman, 24, was shot in her buttocks, police said.

They were both taken to Christ where their conditions were stabilized, police said.

Another man, 24, was grazed in his leg and was treated and released at the scene, police said.

A man was fatally shot in the South Loop on the Near South Side. Just before 2 a.m., the victim, 24, was shot three times in his abdomen in the 2200 block of South Michigan Avenue, police said.

He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said.

A person was found shot to death in a vehicle on the Southwest Side. Just before 1:00 a.m., a man, 47, was found unresponsive with a gunshot wound to his torso in the 3000 block of West 38th Street, police said.

He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said. He has not been identified.

22 others, including two boys, 16 and 17, were shot in attacks across Chicago Saturday night and Sunday morning.

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Decades of abuse allegations lead R&B superstar R. Kelly back in front of a juryJon Seidelon August 8, 2021 at 10:00 am

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Thirteen years have passed since R&B superstar R. Kelly broke down in tears in the middle of a Cook County courtroom and began to pray.

It was June 13, 2008. Kelly’s trial on child pornography charges had finally come to an end. And even the singer’s defense team seemed shocked when jurors cleared Kelly of 14 counts. Kelly answered each verdict with the words, “Thank you, Jesus.”

“Jury lets Kelly fly,” read the Chicago Sun-Times headline the next day.

Now, Kelly is preparing to meet another set of jurors Monday in Brooklyn, where he is set to go to trial all over again. And while the 2008 verdict may linger in many minds, the imprisoned singer faces a far more perilous legal challenge this time, in federal court.

Not even a full acquittal in Brooklyn would necessarily set him free.

That’s because Kelly, once considered the most important R&B singer and songwriter of his generation, faces serious criminal charges in multiple jurisdictions, including in Chicago, where a federal judge ordered him detained in 2019. That case will still be waiting.

“The [U.S. Attorney’s] office in Chicago’s not just going to give that case away,” said Jeffrey Cramer, a former federal prosecutor who is now senior managing director in Chicago of Guidepost Solutions.

That makes the trial in the Eastern District of New York merely a first step in Kelly’s quest to clear his name. And it won’t be an easy one. Kelly faces a sweeping racketeering indictment there alleging that his employees and others helped him recruit women and girls for illegal sex, as well as to produce child pornography.

Opening statements in the trial are set for Aug. 18.

Kelly, 54, has long denied abusing anyone. His lawyers and outspoken fans on social media have repeatedly questioned his accusers’ credibility and say he’s been framed.

“We are looking forward to the truth prevailing,” Kelly’s lawyers said in a recent statement.

The case against Kelly is also unusual in its use of the federal racketeering law to prosecute a superstar within the freewheeling world of popular music — famously known for sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll.

“I don’t know if it’s unique in the world of music,” Cramer said. “But it’s unique in the courthouse.”

The New York indictment spans roughly a quarter century and involves six alleged victims. The earliest claims involve Kelly’s much-publicized 1994 marriage, when he was 27, to the late singer Aaliyah Haughton, who was 15 at the time.

The earliest allegations against R. Kelly center on his 1994 marriage to Aaliyah Haughton. Kelly was 27; Aaliyah, shown here in a 2001 photo, was 15. — The earliest allegations against R. Kelly center on his 1994 marriage to Aaliyah Haughton. Kelly was 27; Aaliyah 15.

The feds say two of the six alleged victims have not spoken publicly. And prosecutors say they want to tell jurors about several additional uncharged allegations, involving at least 15 other victims dating as far back as 1991.

Kelly’s lawyers have recently said they were “blindsided” by some of those additional claims and insisted they should not be allowed into the trial.

Meanwhile, the feds say they also want to tell jurors about the 2008 trial in Cook County that ended with Kelly’s famous acquittal, in part to fend off questions about why Kelly’s alleged victims did not come forward sooner.

Kelly “was once charged with sexually exploiting a minor, there was a video widely believed to feature [Kelly] with a minor and the jury acquitted him,” prosecutors wrote.

That’s necessary background, they said, to understand “why some of his victims long opted against reporting his conduct.”

Born Robert Sylvester Kelly on Jan. 8, 1967, Kelly is remembered as a shy child who grew up on Chicago’s South Side. But the musical talent he would later discover at Hyde Park’s Kenwood Academy was unmistakable.

He reportedly collected $400 one day while performing for spare change on Chicago L platforms and was discovered for Jive Records while singing at a barbecue in the Pill Hill neighborhood.

R. Kelly in the recording studio in February 1998.

Kelly released his first album with the group Public Announcement in 1992. A year later, it had sold a million copies. His fame skyrocketed from there. He would go on to produce “You Are Not Alone” for Michael Jackson. He won three Grammys for his biggest hit, “I Believe I Can Fly,” from the soundtrack for the movie “Space Jam,” starring Michael Jordan. And in 2002, Kelly performed at the opening ceremonies for the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

In 1994, Kelly also produced the debut album for his protege, 15-year-old Aaliyah Haughton, featuring the title track, “Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number.”

Aaliyah has been described as one of the few people Kelly ever truly loved. On Aug. 31, 1994, he surprised Aaliyah by taking her to a room at the Sheraton Gateway Suites in Rosemont, where a minister waited. A certificate would then be filed with the Cook County clerk, documenting Kelly’s marriage to Aaliyah, who it falsely said was 18.

That event 27 years ago is expected to become part of the New York trial. Prosecutors allege that Kelly sexually abused Aaliyah and thought she had become pregnant. They say he then married her so she could not be forced to testify against him.

The marriage would later be annulled, and Aaliyah died in a plane crash in 2001. Kelly’s lawyers argue it would be unfair to suggest Aaliyah was sexually abused by Kelly because she can’t be — and never was — cross-examined on the subject. But the feds say they plan to call a witness who claims to have seen sexual contact between Kelly and Aaliyah when Aaliyah was 13.

The certificate from the August 1994 marriage became public later that same year, but it wasn’t until December 2000 that serious allegations of sexual abuse surfaced against Kelly in the media. That’s when then-Sun-Times journalists Jim DeRogatis and Abdon M. Pallasch reported that Kelly had used his fame to have sex with girls as young as 15.

Early in 2002, a 26-minute, 39-second videotape would be sent anonymously to the Sun-Times. It allegedly showed Kelly performing sex acts with an underage girl. The newspaper turned it over to Chicago police, who began to investigate.

A Cook County grand jury indicted Kelly on child pornography charges in June 2002. But when the case went to trial in 2008, the girl who purportedly appeared in the tape refused to testify.

Jurors said her refusal was key to their decision to find Kelly not guilty.

The 2008 verdict meant Kelly was free to pursue his successful career. But then came the rise of the #MeToo movement in 2017, followed by the release in January 2019 of the Lifetime documentary series, “Surviving R. Kelly.” It leveled further sexual abuse allegations against the star.

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx announced that she was “sickened” by what she saw in the series and, in an unusual move, urged possible victims to “please come forward.” The following month, Kelly would again be charged by Cook County prosecutors, this time with aggravated criminal sexual abuse.

R. Kelly surrenders to authorities at Chicago Police Department’s Central District in February 2019.

It only got worse for Kelly from there. In July 2019, federal prosecutors revealed indictments against Kelly in Chicago and New York. Authorities arrested Kelly while he was walking his dog outside Trump Tower in Chicago, where he lived.

Kelly has been behind bars ever since, spending most of that time in Chicago’s downtown Metropolitan Correctional Center. In June, he was moved to a detention center in Brooklyn.

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic repeatedly thwarted efforts to put Kelly on trial in 2020. One year ago, it wasn’t clear when — or how — Kelly’s trial would ultimately happen.

Even now, the trial in New York will be subject to rules that would have been considered highly unusual before the pandemic. Only jurors and parties to the case will be allowed inside the courtroom, officials say. The press and public will instead be allowed to view a livestream of the trial in two overflow courtrooms.

Such guidelines have become more common with the resumption of jury trials amid the pandemic, though some public access to a trial courtroom is still typically granted.

Prosecutors have sought to protect the identities of some of Kelly’s alleged victims. And U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly has agreed to keep jurors anonymous — a move typically reserved for mob or street-gang trials.

R. Kelly walks with attorneys and supporters into the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in March 2019.

Even if Kelly wins acquittal in New York, his legal jeopardy will not be over. Nor would he necessarily be allowed out of federal custody. U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber in Chicago ordered Kelly’s detention pending trial in July 2019, and the judge denied Kelly’s request to reconsider that decision in October 2020.

Kelly’s lawyers would likely try again to spring the singer if he beats the New York case, but he would still face serious charges here.

The indictment waiting for Kelly in Chicago alleges child pornography and obstruction of justice, claiming Kelly illegally thwarted his 2008 trial in Cook County.

It alleges Kelly worked with two employees at the time — Derrel McDavid and Milton “June” Brown — to beat the case. Prosecutors say that Kelly, McDavid and others intimidated the alleged victim in the central videotape, persuading her and her father to lie to police and a grand jury.

But when a prosecutor here laid out the case against Kelly for Leinenweber in 2019, she said the alleged victim from the 2008 trial had decided to cooperate against Kelly. That news came more than a decade after jurors acquitted Kelly and then pointed to her refusal to testify against him.

“She has now gone on record,” the prosecutor told the judge.

R. Kelly walks into the Daley Center in Chicago for a hearing in a child support case in March 2019.

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3 wounded in Morgan Park shootingMohammad Samraon August 8, 2021 at 9:07 am

Three people were shot and wounded in an attack in Morgan Park on the Far South Side.

Just before 12:25 a.m., three people were shot while at a gathering outside in the 11400 block of South Throop Street, Chicago Police said.

A man, 39, was shot in his lower back and woman, 24, was shot in her buttocks, police said.

They were both taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where their conditions were stabilized, police said.

Another man, 24, was grazed in his leg and was treated and released at the scene, police said.

No one was in custody.

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Lawndale attack at least 4th shooting with minimum 3 victims in about 6 hoursSun-Times Wireon August 8, 2021 at 9:40 am

Three people were wounded Sunday in at least the fourth shooting to involve a minimum of three victims within around six hours, according to police data.

Around 1:10 a.m., two men and a woman, 19, 35 and 32, were standing outside in the 1200 block of South Lawndale on the West Side when someone inside a dark-colored sedan opened fire, Chicago Police said.

The 19-year-old man was shot in his elbow, the 35-year-old in his lower back, and the woman in her right thigh, police said.

The three self-transported to Mount Sinai Hospital, where the men were treated, and Rush University Medical Center, where the woman was treated, police said.

Their conditions were stabilized, police said.

No one was in custody.

Shortly after 7 p.m. Saturday, four men were wounded in a shooting on the Near West Side that left three of them in critical condition, police said.

The group was standing near a park shortly in the 200 block of South Maplewood Street when someone fired shots from a vehicle, police said.

Just before 12:25 a.m., Sunday, three people were shot while at a gathering outside in the 11400 block of South Throop Street in Morgan Park on the Far South Side, police said.

About 30 minutes later, five people, including two security guards, were wounded in a shooting in Gresham on the South Side, officials said.

Around 12:50 a.m., a gunman opened fire following an altercation with two male security guards who denied him entry to a club in the 8300 block of South Halsted Street, Chicago Police said.

One of the guards, 40, was shot multiple times in his body and the other guard, 42, in the back twice and in his thigh, police said. Both were taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where the 40-year-old guard was listed in critical condition and the 42-year-old in serious condition, police said.

Three others who were standing near the altercation were also shot, police said.

Two males, whose ages were unknown, were each shot once in the leg and self-transported to Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park for treatment, police said. Their conditions were unknown, police said.

A man, 21, was shot in his chin and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where his condition was stabilized, police said.

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5 wounded, including 2 security guards, in South Side club shootingMohammad Samraon August 8, 2021 at 8:26 am

Five people, including two security guards, were wounded in a shooting Sunday morning in Gresham on the South Side, officials said.

Around 12:50 a.m., a gunman opened fire following an altercation with two male security guards who denied him entry to a club in the 8300 block of South Halsted Street, Chicago Police said.

One of the guards, 40, was shot multiple times in his body and the other guard, 42, in the back twice and in his thigh, police said.

Both were taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where the 40-year-old guard was listed in critical condition and the 42-year-old in serious condition, police said.

Three others who were standing near the altercation were also shot, police said.

Two males, whose ages were unknown, were each shot once in the leg and self-transported to Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park for treatment, police said.

Their conditions were unknown, police said.

A man, 21, was shot in his chin and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where his condition was stabilized, police said.

No one was in custody.

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