Three separate shootings took place Sunday night on the Dan Ryan Expressway, Illinois State Police said.
Shots first broke out around 7 p.m. on the interstate’s northbound lane near 79th Street in the Grand Crossing neighborhood, state police said. A driver was shot. He drove himself to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and a passenger in the car was not injured, police said.
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Then at 7:35 p.m., troopers responded to another reported shooting on the Dan Ryan near 47th Street in the Fuller Park neighborhood. A driver told police he pulled over after exiting the freeway because he believed his car was struck by gunfire, but troopers did not find any bullet defects on his car, state police said.
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Later, at 9:56 p.m., gunfire erupted again, this time at the Chinatown feeder ramp to the Dan Ryan’s southbound lane, police said. The driver in that incident was not injured and the ramp was closed for processing until 2:45 a.m., police said.
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State police said the investigation into each shooting is ongoing and would not say whether a suspect was in custody Monday morning.
The three attacks mark the 19th, 20th and 21st reported shootings on Chicago expressways since the start of the year, including a Feb. 19 shooting on I-57 that left three wounded and three dead, including a 13-year-old boy and a girl who the Cook County medical examiner’s office now says was 2 years old when she died.
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State police said Monday morning that the investigation into the I-57 shooting “is open and ongoing.”
“In order to maintain its integrity, no information is being released at this time,” a state police spokesperson said.
At the Montessori School of Englewood, where the 13-year-old victim, William Smith, had been an eighth grader, students remembered the slain boy with a balloon release and reflection last Tuesday.
jsheridan@chicagotribune.com
