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CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- There were two shootings on the Stevenson Expressway early Thursday morning. One of them was deadly.

We don't know what was behind the shootings. They happened a couple of hours apart between 3:15 a.m. and 5:40 a.m., and both were on the inbound Stevenson Expressway.


According to Illinois State Police, a 60-year-old man was fatally shot on the inbound Stevenson near the ramp to the inbound Dan Ryan. The shooting happened around 5:30 a.m., when there's typically a long back up and some drivers cutting in front of others.

Police aren't saying yet what they think sparked the shooting.

The man was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to Chicago Fire Department spokesman Walter Schroeder. His name hasn't been released.

Meanwhile, two hours earlier on the inbound Stevenson near DuSable Lake Shore Drive, a 19-year old man was wounded in a shooting.

​The teen was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in serious condition, Schroeder said. State police said he was expected to survive.

State police did not say if they believed the shootings were connected.

The state police asked anyone with information on the shootings to call (847) 294-4400 or email ISP.CrimeTips@Illinois.gov.

Shootings on Chicago-area expressways have more than doubled over the last year. There have been 213 reports of shootings or shots fired so far in 2021, according to state police. In the same period in 2020, there were 101 reports of gunfire.

Expressway shootings this year have already eclipsed 2020's year-end total of 128 shootings.

State police have said they increased overnight patrols in Chicago by diverting troopers from other areas in the state.

"We have not previously confronted the concentrated levels of gun violence we have faced in 2020 and 2021," state police director Brendan F. Kelly said in late September while announcing the increased patrols.

Officials announced earlier this year that state police would be getting $12.5 million to install high-definition cameras to help investigate and deter expressway shootings.

(WBBM Newsradio and the Sun-Times Media Wire contributed to this copy.)