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Kennedy Expressway crash leaves 1 dead, prompts hourslong closure of all SB lanes

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CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — One person was killed after a multi-vehicle crash on the Kennedy Expressway early Sunday morning, according to Illinois State Police.

Officials said the crash happened shortly before 4 a.m. when two vehicles crashed in the local southbound lanes of Interstate 90 near North Pulaski Road.


One of the occupants got out of their car and was fatally struck by a third vehicle, state police said.

Police shut down all southbound local and express lanes of I-90 at Keeler Avenue as they investigated the crash.

Express lanes reopened at about 7:45 a.m., and the local lanes reopened about 40 minutes later.

No other details about the crash or the other occupants were released.

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