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Juvenile Shot Inside Downtown Chicago Hotel, Police Say

The case pushes the Loop to its highest year-to-date shooting count since 2019.

Overview

  • Chicago police responded to the Royal Sonesta hotel on East Wacker Drive for a report of a person shot inside.
  • The boy suffered a graze wound to the leg and was taken to Lurie Children's Hospital in good condition.
  • CPD said he did not cooperate with officers, leaving them without details about how the shooting occurred.
  • A police radio transmission indicated the shot may have been fired in a 12th-floor hallway as a group of kids ran down the stairwell.
  • CWB Chicago counts five people shot in the Loop this year, the most year to date since at least 2019.