1 Dead, 1 Hurt in Surging Chicago Expressways Gun Violence

1 Dead, 1 Hurt in Surging Chicago Expressways Gun Violence
A Chicago police squad car at a shooting scene in East Garfield Park neighborhood where three people were shot half an hour earlier on Aug. 20, 2021. Cara Ding/The Epoch Times
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CHICAGO—Two shootings on a Chicago expressway early Thursday left one person dead and another wounded, the latest incidents in a dramatic surge of gun violence on the city’s major roads.

According to the Illinois State Police, both shootings occurred in the northbound lanes of Interstate 55 within three hours. In the first incident, a person traveling on the interstate near Lake Shore Drive at 3:16 a.m. suffered what the state police called non-life-threatening injuries.