Overview
- A blue sedan was stopped in Cicero for tinted windows around 3:30 p.m., then the driver fled after initially pulling over.
- Cicero police declined a pursuit, deployed a tracking device, and alerted Chicago police to the vehicle’s location.
- CPD says the westbound sedan collided with a northbound black pickup at Madison Street and Oakley Avenue on the Near West Side.
- The pickup’s 57-year-old driver suffered serious injuries and was taken to Stroger Hospital, and a pedestrian was also struck with no condition released.
- Two people were taken into custody after fleeing on foot, including a person Cicero identified as a known gang member, and the sedan’s temporary Indiana plates prompted a stolen-vehicle probe.