Overview
- Illinois State Police announced charges against Jose F. Perez Marin, 21, and said he is held at the Cook County Jail pending his first court appearance.
- Investigators said he drove a GMC SUV on westbound I-290 and hit a Toyota from behind near Ashland Avenue, triggering a four-vehicle chain reaction.
- A passenger in the Toyota, 25-year-old Benjamin M. Farraday of Wheaton, was taken to a hospital and died from his injuries.
- Troopers said Perez Marin and five other people were hurt in the crash, and they arrested him after his release from the hospital.
- The pileup happened while troopers worked a separate shooting on the same stretch of I-290 near California Avenue, where a motorcyclist was shot and taken to a hospital in unknown condition.