expressway shootings

Chicago achieved a dubious (and some would say shameful) record Monday: 115 expressway shootings in 2020. And there are still 24 days to go before the books on the year are officially closed. Expressway incidents are almost coming faster than they can be tallied. There have been 11 shooting incidents on Chicago highways in just the last 12 days. In…

The Chicago area has reported shootings on expressways in the past eight days, including one in which a man was fatally shot Friday on the Eisenhower Expressway.

The inbound Eisenhower Expressway was closed in Chicago Friday afternoon due to police activity following reports of a possible shooting.

Chicago is dealing with record shootings on its expressways this year—more than 99 as of the second week of November. Those who have been repeatedly dispatched to those shootings are appalled at the insane level of violence. Phil Rogers with NBC 5 Investigates reports.

Just a few years ago, a shooting on a Chicago-area expressway would be a major event, the type of tragedy that would lead every newscast in the city. Now they happen with such shocking frequency that road crews have standard procedures for blocking the highways so police can search for evidence. And drivers see them mostly as frustrating incidents that…

There have been 99 expressway shootings in the Chicago area so far this year, far exceeding the 52 seen in 2019, and 43 in 2018. And while no highway is immune, one stands out. NBC 5’s Phil Rogers reports.

The southbound lanes of Interstate 94 are shut down near 147th Street as Illinois State Police investigate an expressway shooting. According to police, state troopers received reports of a shooting near 147th Street at approximately 3:18 p.m. Thursday. Police say no injuries have been reported, but at approximately 4:50 p.m., all southbound lanes of the highway were closed, with traffic…

Authorities say a person was wounded in a shootout and then had their vehicle stolen in a violent carjacking late Wednesday on I-57 near south suburban Calumet Park.

Monday’s shooting of an infant on the Bishop Ford Freeway on Chicago’s South Side was the 65th expressway shooting in the Chicago area this year. That number stands in stark contrast to the 52 that were recorded in all of 2019. Numbers provided by the Illinois State Police show that no expressway in the city is immune to the mayhem….

Illinois State Police are seeking high-definition cameras and license plate scanners as expressway shootings rise in the Chicago area but some civil rights groups contend that data from the new technology could be misused. State police had recorded 62 expressway shootings in Cook County this year through Tuesday, the Chicago Tribune reported. That compares with 52 for all of 2019, 43 in…