Overview
- A 65-year-old woman was hit in a crosswalk on the 3100 block of North Central Avenue by a red pickup that fled.
- First responders tried to help her, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
- Police later found the red pickup truck unoccupied.
- Detectives are interviewing a person of interest, and no arrests have been announced.
- City data show this was Chicago’s seventh fatal hit-and-run of 2026, compared with three at this point last year and 19 in all of 2025.